Sentence examples for very diminished from inspiring English sources

"I just felt very diminished," Kearns says.

Cinema will be safer and very diminished by the absence of a vital provocateur.

In an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," General Jones asserted that he does not believe Afghanistan is "imminent danger of falling" to the Taliban and that the presence of al Qaeda "is very diminished".

In remarks quoted by the Canadian Press wire service, Cronenberg said: "I think the role of the critic has been very diminished, because you get a lot of people who set themselves up as critics by having a website where it says that they're a critic".

Having said that, … as you go from mild to moderate to severe depression, you become more and more incapacitated and your ability to concentrate becomes very, very diminished.

I think in Marjoe's eyes, I was very diminished.

And he could privately be very diminishing about people who were in his own camp.

"This is very bad, very diminishing for women".

Is it possible (It is, but can you admit it?) that your videos to date have fueled the very diminishing and entirely superficial, appearances- and conformity-based attitude toward older gay men that you criticize?

However, when we are trying to discuss a culture of discrimination specifically against queer people of all genders, it's very diminishing to try and assert that there are simply more important issues, and that those "higher value" issues are indeed explicitly heterosexual.

"The appetite for the kind of mobilisation that could generate real change has very much diminished," says Mouin Rabbani, an analyst in Amman, Jordan's capital.Whereas ordinary Jordanians seem simply relieved that their king has kept them out of neighbouring conflicts, those troubles have driven a wedge into Jordan's political opposition.