Sentence examples for diminishing me from inspiring English sources
By diminishing me, they'd position themselves as alpha males.
She said the speculation had "diminished him and diminished me".
"Every word of Lila's diminished me," Elena says.
John Donne reminds us that "any man's death diminishes me".
Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind.
"The lab didn't make me a better doctor, and it diminished me as a human being," he wrote.
It is a tribute to a good person gone too soon and a reminder that, as the poet said, his death diminishes me.
The novel deftly examines how, as Donne says, no man is an island; but more importantly, how "any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind".
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main … any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee".
And as he sets up his makeshift used-book shop along a patch of Columbus Avenue each day, he remembers the words of John Donne: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee".
During the leadership race in 2011, she wanted very much not to be known only as the lesbian kickboxer (the other candidates were all defined by their jobs): "It seemed it was done to diminish me, and it was the only thing anyone knew about me".
