For where the air does not play around them, the diminution thus made will not be perceived; lest, however, they should appear slenderer, when the flutes of the external columns be twenty-four inumberer, these may have twenty-eight, or even thirty-two.
Koch endeavors to transcend this literary diminution by making Paul's personality the ultimate focus of the book.
A second after the scratch of his match the moment occurred of which each following moment was a slight diminution, as we made the long irregular descent toward Pittsburgh.
This conscious diminution of Cheney makes the power struggle in that White House all the more apparent.
If a great deal of melt water enters the polar oceans, the driving force of the north-south currents will diminish, and it is possible that this diminution will actually make some parts of the planet colder.
In this regard, this article reports the result of an attempt made to identify the diminution in the required aggregate thickness of the unpaved road when both the strength characteristics of the subgrade soil are taken into account.
Hume argues further that, given this degeneration, for any judgment, our assessment of the likelihood that we made a mistake, and the corresponding diminution of certainty in the conclusion, is another judgment about which we ought make a further assessment, which leads to a further diminution of certainty in our original conclusion, leading "at last [to] a total extinction of belief and evidence".
By the late fifties, his light was failing badly, and you could argue that the new movie, clearly made on a tight budget, honors that diminution; but laziness creeps in, too, and continuity buffs will grimace as Flynn's walking stick, wielded in a mock duel with Beverly, becomes an umbrella in the next shot.
An oxalic acid reduction mechanism involving an adsorbed species is proposed, made up of two single electron transfer steps and taking into account the concentration diminution of oxalic acid at the interface.
North Korea is a special example of a country that has made Trump such a central figure in its foreign policy that any diminution of his power after the midterms could be problematic for Pyongyang.
