Life after surgery can carry on almost normally while the colon heals, but immediately I felt diminished, and almost emasculated.
When my own father died, I felt diminished, but given his painful effort of getting it over with, it brought both relief and release.
My feeling was probably more [in character than personal] that I felt diminished when I wore the costume — at least from Bruce Wayne's point of view.
"If they can articulate it, they say things like, 'I feel like I've lost my voice,' 'I feel diminished,' or 'I feel like I'm competing with money,' " said Ellen M. Perry, a founder and managing partner at Wealthbridge Partners in Washington, which conducts education programs for wealthy families.
The whole thing sounds so terrible, so stupid, so foolish, so senseless.' Patrick Darcy, a parishioner, said: 'I feel diminished as an Irishman that other Irishmen could come to this town and scatter the blood of Irishmen, women and children over these streets.' Another, Damien Turbitt, had been in his hairdresser's shop when the bomb exploded nearby.
This, I feel, diminishes the argument put forward when Philippa meets Katharine Whitehorn, who worked alongside Woman's Own's prim and proper Mary Grant in the postwar years.
I suddenly felt diminished, like a balsamic reduction.
When my aunts called me skinny, I never felt diminished because they were women who loved me.
It is years since I last read it, but certain phrases are as familiar and dear to me as holy writ; not least when I feel – as Jane so often felt – diminished, uncertain, torn between irreconcilable imperatives: "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will".
In her apology on national television, O'Donnell said, "For anyone who felt diminished by what I said, I apologize".
The managers felt their responsibilities were diminished so they felt diminished too.
