They did seem diminished somehow, or maybe he was just reading that into them.

Away from the sun itself, the sky seemed somehow diminished.

Today's version was somehow diminished from the image in memory.

This was a man who seemed depressed and somehow diminished.

You act as if we're somehow diminished by Starfleet's help.

I closed my eyes, as if it could somehow diminish the darkness that ate away at me.

A death like this left the victim no dignity whatsoever and somehow diminished the entire human race.

The sadness in her eyes was still there, but had somehow diminished, overwhelmed with compassion.

But the heavy sound of earth on wood somehow diminished the ideal; it gave death a stark reality.

Still conscious, yet diminished somehow on the physical plane.