Sentence examples for grave diminution from inspiring English sources
In the West, as we have seen, scientific progress seemed, for a time, to entail a grave diminution of "man's stature".
Our leader argues that the plight of cricket in Pakistan is symptomatic of the country's graver ills.The diminution of the national cricket team is a catastrophe in its own right.
Pedro Martínez, insufficiently troubled by the diminution of his skills, committed the grave sin of calling the Yankees his "daddy," and rhapsodized about sitting under a mango tree, back home in the D.R.; baseball, which had been very, very good to him, was not his life, as it was ours.
"There has been no apparent diminution.
"There's a subtle diminution in prestige".
There is a diminution of complexity.
The result, however, has been a diminution of plays about working-class life; and watching Polly Stenham's No Quarter this month, set in the drawing room of a decaying manor, I thought I detected the sound of the Royal Court's founders turning in their grave.
We sense a diminution of our cosmos.
The acknowledgement reflects the diminution of Christianity in Britain.
