Sentence examples for dissipated like from inspiring English sources

The idea seems weak, it has dissipated, like smoke.

The soul is born and grows with the body, and at death it is dissipated like "smoke".

But the festival offers a superb opportunity to celebrate "The Big Lebowski" for being not "Fargo" but one of filmdom's most inspired farragos -- a monumentally disjunctive text that is much more fun to savor a second, third and tenth time, when all one's petty-bourgeois narrative concerns have dissipated like so much marijuana smoke.

Roberts does concede that there is still racial discrimination, and that it might even be a problem for voting — he just treats it as something that has dissipated like a mist, thinly and evenly distributed in the American air, not needing the "extraordinary" measures of the V.R.A.

Jerusalem, Israel –-- In the wake of the results of Israel's parliamentary elections on April 9, the likelihood of the Zehut ("Identity") party –--which ran on platform of legalizing cannabis -- earning a seat at the table, dissipated like smoke.

We watch trends building, breaking and dissipating like weather fronts.

The Founding Fathers fretted that the republic they had created might dissipate like ancient Rome.

"Religions dissipate like fog, kingdoms vanish, but the works of scientists remain for eternity," he proclaimed.

The way it flies from the instrument but doesn't dissipate like it does when she plays outdoors.

There is a grungy high spirit during the first third of this film, but then it dissipates like a mist from an aerosol can.

He is unflinchingly serious, though, and his sandpaper gravitas complements Nick McCabe's moony guitar, which often seems to rise and dissipate like a smoke ring.