Even on a diminished scale, the design suggests more than mere utility.
Alfredo Corchado, the Dallas Morning News correspondent who testified before the US Congress last Tuesday about the perils facing journalists in Mexico, described the case today as a "new low even for Mexico's diminishing standards".
This time-honored summer escape is a diminished, perhaps even dying habit.
Their reactions may well determine whether Andersen can survive even in a greatly diminished form.
This desperate power grab by a diminishing elite fails to even comprehend the problems it aims to solve, and its blunt force methods are wide open for abuse, and very possibly unconstitutional.
Jack Seale This year's bloviating business blunderers feel like an unusually hapless bunch, even allowing for the diminishing returns of this perceptibly creaking show.
And even for these, returns diminish: experience only counts for so much.
Furthermore, patients are often interviewed several weeks after becoming ill, when recall of basic foods consumed is limited, and even more diminished for specific details, such as tomato type or ingredients within prepared dishes.
Even aspirations are diminished.
