Sentence examples for star reduced from inspiring English sources

But that vitality, that punch, is all but missing from the rest of the album, with its star reduced to a gaseous nonentity.

But in barely eight months, he has defied the naysayers and found an elixir more potent than Botox for an aging action star reduced to silly movie parts: political success.

Mr. Kessler exploits Mr. Williams for comic mileage, milking chuckles from the sight of a faded star reduced to playing hotels, Las Vegas gigs, the Philippines and a fan convention in Ontario.

The troupe includes the embittered Paul, a former ballet star reduced by his war injuries to running the puppet show, and Lili, an orphaned waif who comes to the carnival looking for work and ends up assisting with the puppet routines.

In targeting this 4.4 8.0 mmol/L range using model-predictive methods to personalize treatment, STAR reduced clinical workload in the same ICU (13.6 measurements per day per patient compared to 15.8, P < 0.05, Table 4) and increased nutrition delivery per episode compared with SPRINT (achieving 86%% of ACCP calorific goal feed compared to 73%%, P < 0.05, Table 5), when allowed to feed.

On that basis, Cardinals runningback Edgerrin James (a former star reduced to part time duty) and 49ers quarterback Alex Smith (a 2005 draft bust still on a big contract) were among our NFL players getting the most for doing the least.

If a star reduces his fee he should get compensated on the other side.

Although most of the mutations in StAR reduce or completely abolish function, the R181L mutant, which is predicted to affect lipid transfer but not binding [ 30], displayed wild-type levels of activity.

Prideful and lost, he became a passing phenomenon, like so many stars, reduced to cadging charitable fees at parties thrown by mobsters and by sympathetic fellow Hungarians.

The Rooneys were also in Dubai last October, at the Burj Al Arab, a resort whose seven stars reduce Le Royal Méridien to a B&B.

The result gives astrophysicists a firmer handle on the mass of the first stars, reducing the uncertainty in the estimated mass down from a factor of 20 to two, the scientists report in tomorrow's issue of Science.