His big problem is the fact that on current projections, his ideas about city government as a powerful force may soon fade into nothing, as Newcastle effectively goes bust.
When, that is, you can make out what's happening on the screen, where the actors have a way of suddenly fading into nothing but a pair of illuminated eyes or simply nothing at all, and where the whole mise-en-scène can suddenly turn snowy.
That sense of infinity you feel as that final "mmm" gradually fades into nothing is enhanced by what many call the fourth syllable of om (sorry, trinity-lovers!): silence.
Ideally, this short-cropped hair will gradually fade into nothing as it goes down the neck.
Nothing, he said, and then the lady began an argument, and the first lively round of bickering began, a tight but somehow still loving exchange that, with the window wide open and her head against the back seat, faded off into nothing more than a pattern of clicks, wooden in nature, continuing until the engine died, and they left her asleep in the car.
I thought that I faded away into nothing.
This is the option we can reasonably hope for, and see it easily mapped on to Honey G's X Factor career: she will get cleanly voted out with about six weeks to go, yell "WEEZY" slightly too close to a microphone so much that Dermot O'Leary has to apologise for any viewers offended at home, then fade away into nothing again, recruiting anonymously against the dying of the sun.
Should it all just fade out into nothing.
