Sentence examples for she diminished from inspiring English sources

She diminished my beard by trimming it into a goatee, getting me to smooth my cheeks from sideburns to mustache and chin.

Instead, she diminished the tragedy by conflating it with the attacks against her and her record of inflammatory statements.

In May 2003, Wotton supported a group of Palm Island women who called for the resignation of council chairwoman Delena Foster, asserting that she "diminished the rights of all islanders by proposing a strict new alcohol ban" as well as threatening a significant source of income for the area.

And yet she diminishes both the pas de deux in "Agon" and the "Concerto" Opus 24 of "Episodes".

She diminishes Martha's urge to strike out on her own by dressing it up as a cute or quirky choice — Judy Holliday takes a road trip — thus ignoring the profound, knotted, and perhaps feminist choice that Martha made when she moved into the Madrid (and hung a poster of a "Klute -era Jane Fonda on her wall).

Tall and broad-shouldered, when he visits Nya at work he looms over her as she stands downstage center; she seems diminished in his presence.

As she completed the first part of the final scene, the ravishing aria "Al dolce guidami," she slowly diminished the last note to nothing.

The sadness her conviction causes comes in part from feeling how it diminishes her, how she has diminished herself.

Black knows that she has diminished the chance to make a safe place for her king on the kingside.

Playing quietly, Wiig is a decent and likable actress, but, for fans of her wild side, she seems diminished, her face a little blank.

"Under the guise of representing Mrs. Astor when she had diminished mental capacity, the defendant in reality worked himself into a position to collect millions of dollars when she died," he told Judge A. Kirke Bartley Jr.