The horror!" intones the deranged, homicidal ivory trader Kurtz, reflecting with disgust on his heinous crimes as his life ebbs slowly away on the deck of a leaky riverboat, water lapping around him like blood.
He was stirred profoundly by people and things that were in decline, dying, ebbing slowly out of history — as he, at the moment of his death in a Baltimore hospital, might have felt that his own work was fading out of memory.
The eurozone crisis is ebbing slowly and some confidence is returning, but the recovery is fragile.
There is life in print – but it is ebbing away slowly without any hint of recovery.
Voeckler and Maté ("Avant garde French sculptors famous for their nudes made from cheese," suggests Neil Keenan on Twitter) have seen their lead slowly ebb away to 2min 2minc.
I want players to think of the badge not the pay, before the sport I once loved starts to slowly ebb away.
So the Army is forced to watch its warfighting capabilities slowly ebb away, knowing it may have no money to replace aging weapons for many years to come.
It's as though, as the American political class has watched its real control over the course of events slowly ebb, a collusion of desperation has broken out among them: "The time of fun and waste is over," as the 9/11 terrorists put it.
My guilt slowly ebbed away.
But rather than slowly ebbing away, its brightness gently intensifies then dims then intensifies again.
From an initial passionate stage, it slowly ebbed until it became routine and then barely noticeable.
