Autos for YEARS seemed to give us freedom and independence, but when they create TRAFFIC jams and other PROBLEMS in the parks, the experience of serenity in nature that visitors expect is SERIOUSLY diminished, if not destroyed.

It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have STREETS that are SAFE, CHILDREN that are educated, and DRUG use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting US.

Even THOUGH I read voraciously as a child, I NEVER saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the STORIES OTHERS told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I WANT to write against that.

The personality PROBLEM is so TOUGH when you're not able to PAY people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people WORKING for free, often their MOTIVATION is diminished considerably.

The importance of first-week SALES has kind of diminished, in our OPINION, in the industry, and we don't really know what it really MEANS ANYMORE. It is what it is in the industry. And for us, it's all about the endgame, not where it begins.

Shaming is POWERFUL and useful. I'm living in NEW York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social MEDIA, the CHANCE of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished.

When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures - fast ROADS, malls, flyovers - that one felt almost obliged to be HOPEFUL. Now that hope has diminished, you can feel the CITY going into a frenzy to reinvent itself. I miss living there.

A woman - even if she is the PRIMARY breadwinner - REALLY needs to keep in mind that at some POINT, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear CHILDREN. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really SLOW me down at all.

As I TURN 91 this JUNE 8th, I have to ADMIT my HOURS at the easel have diminished.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and PAINTERS are weakened by a stemming of funds, they COME to me saddened, not as FULL of DREAMS and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and MADE less rich.

But I don't THINK the POPULARITY of FLYING has diminished a BIT.

While there continue to be critics of the Comcast-NBC merger, it's HARD to argue that COMPETITION in news and ENTERTAINMENT has diminished as a result, given the rise of NETFLIX and Amazon and the explosion in entertainment options that followed the merger.