Here, oblivion appears to encroach on the protagonist and eventually stamp out all embers of emotion.
Open areas appear to be encroached by forest, leading to loss of heterogeneity which has been reported to be associated with high biodiversity.
Nearly all attempts to sell books in an electronic format have been disappointing, and now Google appeared to be encroaching on the publishers' domain.
In 1951, Florida Sheriff Willis McCall, who saw himself as the alpha and omega of the law in citrus-growing Lake County, was determined to stem the tide of liberalism that appeared to be encroaching on his world.
The director, the mono-named Higuchinsky, finds a visual equivalent for the encroaching dread, a pale color scheme highlighted by a bluish-green tint that makes "Uzumaki" appear to be wrapped in deteriorating seaweed.
The new service appears to be an effort to encroach on Twitter's territory.
Both figuratively, in terms of the civil war, and literally, as a number of "breaches" appear, causing a demonic world to encroach on the idyllic countryside.
Many mainstream Sadrists appeared to take up arms as government forces encroached on their turf.
Following Mr Morsi's meeting with the judges, a presidential spokesman appeared to suggest that the Egyptian leader stood by last week's decree and that his powers did not encroach on to those of the judiciary.
Kwarasey appeared to have atoned with a world class save from Kaká from the spot, and yet Kevin Stott ordered a retake when Chara, for some reason, encroached on the area.
Yet with his new novel, Eggers's innovative optimism appears to have paused at the frontiers of social media, looking forward, not to a world of open potential, but to an encroaching nightmare.
