Though he was widely admired during and after the Civil War, Grant's stature shrank in the aftermath of the slaughter of World War I. His bloody 1864 Wilderness campaign against Robert E. Lee earned him the tag "butcher," an epithet that took on even more sinister tones given the ghastly losses in the Great War.
As for theatre, Billington believes Storey's stature has shrunk, if only temporarily, "partly because he was championed by Anderson, and after Lindsay's death he seemed to lack a sponsor.
I grew smaller in stature -- shrunk right there in my chair before her, as if I was Alice and had just choked down a little red pill.
Although it threatened to reassume control of the city's finances in 1991, its stature has been shrinking in recent years.
Hamilton casts Gingrich as a ridiculous figure who gradually shrinks in stature next to the president.
In "The War Within," more judgmental still, President Bush shrinks in stature as the narrator's presence grows.
Outside Ms. Marble's museum, Michael Jackson's stature has long been shrinking, as have his record sales.
As Mr Khatami shrinks in stature, that defence sounds hollow.To date, the EU's main accomplishment has been to persuade Iran's top judge to introduce a moratorium though not an outright ban on the stoning to death of adulteresses.
In relation to this other universe the universe that has gradually revealed itself to later observers the "stature" of medieval man shrinks from the heroic to the bumptiously absurd.
Spaniards, in particular, shrank in stature 6000 years ago, perhaps as a result of adapting to colder temperatures and a poor diet.
