But Welles's own capital shows no diminution and it has lasted longer than Kane's could have.
The structure at the end of the poem enacts this mortal diminution, as it curtails the expected last couplet to a single, two-beat line.
The Army thought it was a diminution of its role, a disregard of its traditions and its ways, and fought him on it.
A real collapse involves a diminution in volume – it would be an open metastable packing being reduced to a more closely packed, more stable structure.
With all patients the quality of life improved significantly because of the treatment and the pain diminution resulting from it.
It was not anti-Semitism or denial of facts about the Holocaust but a dilution and diminution of its importance which I noticed and found unacceptable.
But the parliament is resisting it, because it fears a diminution of Euro-MPs' legislative role.
And yet, for all the diminution that comparison implies, it's a significantly better picture.
The Aleph's diameter must have been about two or three centimeters, but cosmic space was in it, without diminution of size.
