I went slowly along, puzzling about the machines, and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light, until Weena's increasing apprehensions drew my attention.

First, the way must be prepared by "gradual diminution of bitterness" between the parties.

Mr. Barenboim's gradual diminution and rebuilding of dynamics early in the first movement, and the beautiful simplicity that he brought to the opening of the Arietta were among the finer touches.

Apart from the fact that disease simply does not work this way - it can decimate, but seldom exterminate, a widespread and varied population - the gradual diminution of numbers of species in the late Cretaceous argues against this.

A gradual diminution in mental faculties which is noticed by friends and relatives but not by the affected person is the first change.

This view is supported by gradual diminution of promitotic cyclin E and an increase of antimitotic p27 proteins during trophoblast culture (Fig.

With the merely quantitative, intensive division of the retina's activity, there is only a gradual (by degrees) diminution of the intensity or strength of the retina's full activity.

We need service, specialization, innovation, and a gradual diminution of what Paul Hawken in "The Next Economy" calls the intermediation of economic life.

Rajasingha's reign also saw a gradual diminution of the Kandyan's dreams of reuniting Sri Lanka under a single, native, crown.

More like evaporation or sublimation, except that there was no gradual diminution in volume, and there was no detectable residue, either solid, liquid, or gaseous.