Word: diminisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forced broader and more pictorially solid shapes into the paint with which he depicted flesh, helping him compose the body's structure in terms of twisting and displacement. This "Freud effect" is not unlike the quick, coarse expressiveness of Frans Hals, but less benign. A broader stroke didn't diminish the closeness of his inspection. If Velazquez had ever chosen to paint water dribbling from a spout, he might have come up with the sort of brilliant fiction about unstable, passing appearances that Freud achieved in Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink, 1983-87. (The "Japanese wrestlers" of the title...
Marino's system consists of an electrostatic precipitator to remove smoke, a water wash head to remove grease and an odor control unit to diminish the smells, Dyslin said...
...political acumen or intellectual fortitude, the idea that tumbled out of her loud head last week is too important not to be taken seriously. As the Boston Globe sympathetically editorialized, "it would be hard to argue with Elders that shootings in the nation's cities and suburbs would diminish if cocaine were legalized." We all know that most of the violence results from the prohibition on drugs, which generates a lucrative illegal business. Drug dealers kill each other and innocent victims in the relentless pursuit of increased market share...
...encourage the people around here all the time, when we're under all this pressure, that we should be on a personal basis with our own harshest critics, but that we should never permit the criticism of others to diminish our self-image. I think one of the things we all have to guard against here in this town is that it is so fixated on politics and demands such long hours of most people that you forget what a balanced life is like. It makes people more vulnerable...
...suggesting anything so radical as having women play female parts--we like seeing men in tights and high heels as much as anyone. Adding women to the cast in male parts would enhance, not diminish, the special transvestite ambience of the Pudding. It would also give female actors the chance to perform in the biggest budget theatrical extravaganza on campus. Many famous personalities got their start in the Pudding (just ask Governor Weld)--women deserve an equal opportunity to such exposure...