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Late Victorian, solidly brick built, it rose through three floors of diminishingly elaborate casement windows, the uppermost arched attractively and poking out from a fine mansard roof.

The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

The precision of the subjunctive -- which literate people bother with less and less, the simple past tense increasingly and diminishingly employed in its place -- is never arbitrary, and its presence suggests that if attention is being paid to a matter of higher-order usage, similar intention lurks behind the clutter of qualifiers.

David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010

I understand that there are people out there who are seriously depressed about their appearance; that some people have life-diminishingly bad acne scarring or a nose that dominates their face and consequently, in their view, their lives.

Forget those fashionistas – let's make cellulite the must-have look 2010

The precision of the subjunctive -- which literate people bother with less and less, the simple past tense increasingly and diminishingly employed in its place -- is never arbitrary, and its presence suggests that if attention is being paid to a matter of higher-order usage, similar intention lurks behind the clutter of qualifiers.

David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010

The precision of the subjunctive--which literate people bother with less and less, the simple past tense increasingly and diminishingly employed in its place--is never arbitrary, and its presence suggests that if attention is being paid to a matter of higher-order usage, similar intention lurks behind the clutter of qualifiers.

David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model The Huffington Post News Team 2010

These top slots and platinum albums should have been marks of making it, but instead, they ended up fueling his glib feud with 50 Cent (beef that a friend of the two referred to, diminishingly, as "gangsta minstrelsy"), a feud that ultimately stiffled the Queen born rappers career.

Zara Golden: Funk Flex's Birthday Extravaganza Tests The Limits Of Hip Hop Legend 2010

These are people who liked Obama so much that they ran to be a pledged delegate, and the Obama campaign vets these folks in most cases, so the numbers that are all of a sudden going to flip to Hillary is going to be diminishingly low.

Hillary: Pledged Delegates "Just Like" Supers ��� They Can Switch 2009

And, actually, the electorate is a diminishingly small percentage of the people

Two-lane Burrard Bridge trial finds support « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

I think that's definitely a diminishingly small minority on TPM.

Great Moments In Political Photography 2009

Creationists are creationists whether they are the diminishingly small group of Christians who cling to the ideas, like ID-guru Phillip Johnson and ID-star Jonathan Wells, or whether they are the odd science bashing sorts who plague science from an Islamic perspective in Turkey.

Darwinism, What's the Appeal? 2005