Sentence examples for is rather diminished from inspiring English sources

These flights last one hour, but (depending on where you are starting and finishing your journey) when you add in travelling time between airports and city centres, and the need to arrive at least 30 minutes before departure, the time saving derived from flying is rather diminished.

These days, alas, Cowell is rather diminished – but so is our politics (almost inconceivably, given how shocking things were before).

Unexpectedly, we found here that KS is rather diminished in rat EAN.

However, the augmentation observed upon Pdro depletion mostly represents esterification of LDL-derived cholesterol, since in the absence of LDL (when only cellular cholesterol is present), cholesterol esterification was rather slightly diminished by the depletion of Pdro.

Life is going to feel rather diminished by the loss of his welcoming, cheery and optimistic voice".

If smoking has an impact on both causes of death but for cancer at a different age than for ischaemic heart disease, it is possible that cancer rather diminished the gap in socioeconomic mortality differentials whereas ischaemic heart disease increased it.

Rather, diminished ERK activation is shown in lung homogenates and in cultured lung epithelial cells after treatment with APC.

Rather diminished personal accomplishment, which was independent of job stressors, predicted psychological morbidity.

The combination of recency bias and insensitivity to elapsed time indicates that the perseveratory impetus in a named response does not passively decay with time but rather is diminished by interference from related trials.

Meanwhile, the Anonymous movement is not diminished, but rather encouraged, by the sacrifices made by the five Britons in question.

For me, the fun in simply reading Hammerstein's "Ol' Man River," Hart's "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" or Bessie Smith's "Empty Bed Blues" is significantly diminished; I'd rather turn on the phonograph instead.