Sentence examples for rather diminished from inspiring English sources

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

Prince: Purple Rain (1984) Fifteen years of being a laughing stock have rather diminished Prince's reputation, but this sounded like nothing else when it came out.

I do think it's very difficult to have an ethical vision of capitalism which is simply based on a rather diminished set of moral rules".

Dubai's The World archipelago hadn't even opened when the same developers announced The Universe, thereby making The World sound like a rather diminished prototype before anyone had moved in.

He emerges from these elections a rather diminished figure, whose wheeling and dealing skills may be sorely tested as he sets about building a new coalition.

Phosphatidylserine, which is a relatively minor membrane component, is three times more prevalent in DRM than in the bulk plasma membrane, while phosphatidylinositols are rather diminished, as are phosphatidylcholine species [20].

They enriched rather than diminished debates in 2010".

Lincoln's achievement lay in his ability to lead his fellow citizens toward doing the right thing in ways that increased rather than diminished respect for their political institutions.

Faint echoes of complaint rise up most years but no-one can doubt that the prize has enriched rather than diminished fiction, raising women's profile and spearheading the careers of many writers - Linda Grant, Andrea Levy, Lionel Shriver come to mind - who without it might have struggled longer to find their place.

Therefore, we suggest that social recognition deficit observed in APP mice is explained rather by diminished levels of nuclear pCREB.

Reduced platelet count with enlarged MPV suggesting that the thrombocytopenia was caused by accelerated platelet clearance rather than diminished production during L. interrogans infection.