letting down

Noun

Meaning

the act of causing something to move to a lower level

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In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness. Kenneth Tynan

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. Sydney Smith

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take. Frederick William Faber

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable. Meg Whitman

I am also for attente, for wanting to see results; for not letting down our guard; for keeping our powder dry. Margaret Thatcher

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough. Maria Sharapova

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