attenuated

How To Use attenuated In A Sentence

• Some research suggests, however, that the effects of aging are attenuated not by how much people receive from their community but by how much they contribute to it.
• Bold choices are attenuated by combination with impalpable chiffon.
• We're living through a deeply contradictory time when black folks (and what's left of the unions) are the Dems only truly reliable voting block, and yet every other manifesto for Democratic revitalization is some kind of attenuated, okie-doke Souljah-moment retread. Gary Dauphin: ATT(5)-1=CBC(3)+CHC(1)
• Owing to these reversals the linear and telic structure of the narrative is attenuated as the pursuer becomes the pursued, the hunter the hunted, the victimizer the victim, the will to kill the will to die.
• On the basis of this mutual agreement of the two parties, according to which each of them defends only his claims and his cause, renouncing all personal or egoistic considerations, the conflict is fought with unattenuated sharpness, following its own intrinsic logic, and being neither intensified nor moderated by subjective factors. Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations
• The undeniable utility of the canoe is attenuated by its insistent lack of comfort. Times, Sunday Times
• The problem is not that he has abridged the Bible - the very creation of Scripture required the editorial judgment of its redactors - but that he has attenuated it.
• Some rights, perhaps in an attenuated or qualified form, survived the making of the order.
• At some moments the soloist's rubato might have seemed overly attenuated, but it would be curmudgeonly to complain, particularly in the light of his ravishingly beautiful treatment of sequential passages.
• Imagine them denuded of even the attenuated r and r release that they are allowed there; imagine their seemingly infinite protraction.