It's a scene of horrible and excruciating diminution, made more agonizing by the fact that Humbert sees how sordid her life is& 8212her body is& 8212but loves her anyway.
And the day that was supposed to arrest Greece's collapse into bankruptcy, and prevent the euro's diminution, ended more than 12 hours later on Monday evening with the bizarre spectacle of a phantom summit.
The days and nights bleached out by boredom and diminution are more visible on the faces of others — in their measured gestures, in their silly and furtive little jokes.... Just as before, he neglects to notice the minute changes in products, prices, jargon — the mute subtexts of everyday life, the gray fog into which more and more of them are vanishing...
The days and nights bleached out by boredom and diminution are more visible on the faces of others — in their measured gestures, in their silly and furtive little jokes.... Just as before, he neglects to notice the minute changes in products, prices, jargon — the mute subtexts of everyday life, the gray fog into which more and more of them are vanishing..
This represents a TF value diminution of more than 40% of the initial value of flat Si.
But his diminution is also, more importantly, an impediment to understanding our current malaise as a nation, and how much better things might have been had today's America turned out less Reaganite and more Humphreyish.
Pair that with a diminution of two more once-powerful voices — Congress and the city's business leaders — and politicians are operating without some of the checks that once helped keep them honest.
In 2009, a 31-year-old female, known case of systemic lupus erythematosus with stage IV lupus on immunosuppressive therapy, presented with floaters and gradual painless progressive diminution of vision more in the right eye than left eye since 1 week.
Because of the ongoing diminution of retail sales, as more and more people either listen to music free on YouTube or Spotify, or subscribe to paid streaming services offered by Pandora, Rhapsody, Rdio, Google Play and Spotify, the million-plus first-week figure has become increasingly elusive.
A similar (though more rapid) diminution accompanies the reversing of the sun's magnetic field, which happens every 11 years or so.
