Sentence examples for much diminished the from inspiring English sources

But in the dock on Friday, he seemed much diminished — the swagger gone, his speech slurred, the feared warrior now an infirm and elderly man.

Ideas abound as to why this should be so: the Bogart-cum-Garbo glamour of the thing (now much diminished); the comfort of having one's own little campfire; the reassuring ritual of matches, lighters, and finger play; and so on.

I've come late to the game (Rushfield has a great passage on how everyone he met claimed to be "the only person" who had never seen the show), and apparently to a game much diminished (the current season, I've been told, is a flop).

But while the importance of the first two is much diminished, the Corporation, the least reformed of all, is more influential than it has been since its medieval heyday.Dating back to the early 12th century, it owes its survival to what Tony Travers, professor of local government at the London School of Economics, calls a "steely determination" to maintain its power.

The Late Middle Ages was marked by difficulties and calamities including famine, plague, and war, which much diminished the population of Western Europe; between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed about a third of Europeans.

It does not, much, diminish the pain of those who loved them.

Pretended flight as a device for luring an unjust enemy into an ambush can be right in a just war, but lying to the enemy is wrong, although its gravity is much diminished by the duty not to reveal the truth to the enemy, a duty compatible with the coexisting duty not to lie.

The impulse survives, much diminished, in the vocabulary of political correctness.

The big textiles houses that dominated the scene in 1990 were much diminished over the next decade (although Bombay Dyeing is, despite its name, still in business), and some of the grand families behind them such as the Mafatlals dropped from the upper ranks of capitalist clans.

His sanitized spin on the Civil War could not have been better framed to appeal to an unreconstructed white cohort that, while much diminished in the 21st century, popped back out of the closet during the Obama ascendancy.

In some ways the new Beetle is much diminished from the cars of old.