The size of plots is ever diminishing.
Exhibitors, distributors and financiers are now accepting that there is an audience out there who want to see female-driven films, so I hope this will help drive change and breathe new life into an industry where the diversity of films is ever diminishing.
Yet as illegal gold mining continues to decimate swaths of rainforest in south-eastern Peru and local authorities illegally build roads which deliberately cut through national parks and isolated indigenous reserves, the living space for these isolated people who know no national boundaries is ever diminishing.
With such a sticky initial product, LinkedIn can continue to ask for more data or privileges from users as it grows, knowing the likelihood that they'll leave is ever diminishing.
This used to be the primary realm of the musical amateur, a skilled but nonprofessional music lover whose ranks are ever diminishing.
This demographic's average likelihood of committing another crime is ever-diminishing.
And their shine is ever-diminishing.
I do love patois slang; its effectiveness is ever so slightly diminished by the fact that she says fuck a grand fucking total of about 20 fucking times, lightly fucking dusted with sprinklings of "cunts" and other fucking pleasantries the world learned from the French.
While the conversation around mental health has certainly grown wider and louder since 2000, "what hasn't changed is our ever diminishing pool of resources money, beds, staff.
The paradox is that if such unmediated expression were ever possible, it would diminish, if not altogether obliterate, literature.
