The negative effects, on the other hand, were indirect and dissipated among the population at large.
An unusually harsh winter knocked the recovery off course, but there have since been signs, including strong job growth, that the effects of the bitter cold have dissipated.
It was a deft deflection, which largely worked, and the little frisson over travel perks dissipated quickly enough.
Villa's confidence is so fragile that within half an hour of Delph announcing his news to the crowd to big applause, the pre-match adrenaline burst had dissipated in little more than the manner of a sugar rush.
Steven Spielberg has tackled the subject of slavery before Lincoln, with Amistad in 1997, where the high drama of a revolt on board ship was dissipated by speechifying, and the film ended up as a sort of hymn to American justice.
His aides hope that with some of the anger over the broken promise dissipated, it may be possible to get a hearing for his claim that opportunity has been extended to children from poorer backgrounds.
"Rather than building menace, the snail-like pace dissipated it," the Guardian's John Crace wrote of the first episode of the original Mad Dogs, though he could easily have been talking about this remake.
"With these factors having dissipated, we expect the hard data to bounce back in the next few months and the payrolls figures to also recover.
If there is an initial urge to stimulate erotically, it becomes defused or dissipated by the semi-abstraction of the juxtaposed colour.
By the time Corin met Carrie in 1995, riot grrrl had dissipated – a demise Corin would later lament in the band's song #1 Must Have, which hit out at the movement's ideas selling out and being marketed back to women as "girl power".
Thus, within half an hour, the swagger had dissipated.
