Sentence examples for kind of diminished from inspiring English sources
They have a strict no-nonsense approach to handling you during your treatments, and the seriousness of it all is kind of diminished by the fact that they are working in underwear.
The early kick-off will not have helped travel arrangements but, in happier times for Newcastle, it would have been almost impossible to imagine this kind of diminished following for an FA Cup tie against the reigning league champions.
There's a passage in "What Belongs to You" where he reflects on his life as a kind of diminished life, a life of narrow routine, and on the extent to which he's unsure how much that diminishment is something inflicted on him, and how much it's something he has chosen.
The consequence of this kind of diminished access is clear when it comes to another medical service that provokes a religious backlash: abortion.
In fact, there is a kind of diminishing quality to the way the man is presented.
There's a kind of diminishing of self-esteem involved in embracing some of it".
Still, gotta say it kind of diminishes the impact of all that "use every part of the buffalo" business when you're like "So what do you do with the ears?" and the answer is "Keychain toggles".
But when your interlocutor adds "Oops, sorry" with an awkward silence as if he/she has just broken your dead grandma's favorite teacup, it kind of diminishes the whole "just a figure of speech" aspect.
"It's kind of a diminishing returns thing," Redding said of reinventing the chains.
Hint, Jay: you're already canonical, but this kind of thing diminishes you.
