Sentence examples for mere diminution of from inspiring English sources

When he said the effects of his policies would be felt for decades to come, he meant something more than a mere diminution of the structural deficit.

Circe speaks with a fiercely declamatory voice and presents an operatic grandeur similar to Anna Magnani's; her story has a comic element, in its diminution of human affairs to mere playthings of the gods — yet she praises those men who can, like an immortal, treat destiny with indifference, and she defines mankind in terms of a quality foreign to the immortals, memory.

With placebos ("I will please" in Latin), the mere expectation that treatment will help brings a diminution of symptoms, even if the patient is given a sugar pill.

I have no idea whether it's dogma, paternal sentimentality, or mere actorly choice that burdens him in "After Earth," but the result is the diminution of a superb performer, his self reduced to a celebrity emblem that advertises the movie from within.

There is a diminution of complexity.

We sense a diminution of our cosmos.

The acknowledgement reflects the diminution of Christianity in Britain.

Ministries also fight any diminution of their budgets.

We do not measure the corresponding diminution of taxpayers' wealth.

Rather, one is saddened by the diminution of sexual desire.

There was no diminution of crowds or enthusiasm.