"It was like watching someone dissolve in front of your eyes," says Meades.
Old assumptions about the sterile, mechanical surface quality of Op Art may dissolve in front of Jesús Rafael Soto's "Vibration" (1960).
He's the melting figure on the cover of this week's Time magazine: a reality-television shyster who somehow captured the nomination of a major political party and is now dissolving in front of us.
Of course, there's the quality: inspired performances, immaculate screenplay, stirring score, kinetic direction, plus an adult edge (rape, incest, seeing your arm dissolve in front of you) that's unusual in a family film.
Ms. Metcalf doesn't possess the gift for liquefaction that Ms. Lange found in the part: announcing her loneliness, the two-time Oscar winner seemed to dissolve in front of us.
There was only one thing for it: in order to stop Anglo-Icelandic relations plummeting to the levels of the cod wars, I would have to visit the country as a tourist, test the waters of the Blue Lagoon and either watch my flesh dissolve in front of my eyes or declare it safe for bathing.
Even as the PC is dissolving in front of our eyes and morphing into something else, those values still stand true, says Groene.
Mouse ears haven't sprouted much in China, but as we neared the promised land, Shanghai's pushier persona seemed to dissolve in front of my eyes.
To be sure, it is a sad day for the Turkish people, who are witnessing with fear and deep trepidation how their dream of living in an enlightened, progressive, and secular country is dissolving in front of their eyes.
During freezing, ice spreads rapidly inside trees (Kitaura, 1967; Hacker and Neuner, 2007; Pramsohler et al., 2012), which can be assumed to concentrate the dissolved gases in front of the moving ice front (Sevanto et al., 2012), creating a large concentration difference between the gas within the conduits and the gas in inter-conduit spaces and further in the ambient air.
