Sentence examples for drastic descent from inspiring English sources

And despite the novelistic sheen, and the intrinsically dramatic elements of the story being told -- Bishop's drinking binges and eventual infidelity, Soares's drastic descent into depression and suicide -- the book becomes surprisingly sketchy as it progresses.

Even despite the U.S. government's overreaching on privacy and "protecting" us from data about our own bodies, despite Silicon Valley's mad rush to cash in on apps rather than substantial technology, despite most online media's drastic descent to the lowest common denominator and even lower standards of journalism, I remain…optimistic.

The entire stage to that point was on a slight increase in elevation, while the finish was on a long and drastic descent into Chiavenna.

(Anderson) DRASTIC ACTION (Thursday) In her "Lines of Descent" Aviva Geismar's company tries to dance out answers to questions like, "How close is too close?" and "Are there realities you can't admit?" (Through March 16).

At 9 30 p.m., Joe's Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 967-7555, joespub.com; $20. (Dunning) DNA: DRASTIC ACTION (Friday through Sunday) This company will perform Aviva Geismar's new "Line of Descent," a dance that creates a dreamlike universe in its quest for meaning in our time.

AVIVA GEISMAR/DRASTIC ACTION Linee of Descent" grew out of a residency in the German birthplace of Geismar's grandparents, who died in Auschwitz, but the resulting work has less the creepiness of German expressionism than that of sophomoric overacting.

How drastic?

Drastic concessions.