Lift your thumb, and it fades back to its static form.
When Chappuis fades back to pass, he is a slow-motion study in coolness and concentration".
Even Fitzgerald's Riviera masterpiece, Tender Is The Night, is populated, and haunted, by Americans who hail from New York, who refer to it constantly, and whose names, like McKisco, evoke its suburbs long before the novel's end fades back to the city, and the Empire State beyond, to Geneva, Hornell, to "a very small town -- in that section of the country, in one town or another".
After a while, they faded back to our rooms, but I couldn't tear myself away.
She opened her eyes and sat down, and her skin quickly faded back to pale pink.
During the first half of this disappointing Nets season, the team, in fleeting instances, came into focus only to fade back to fuzzy.
She lived on for a while in soft-core pornography, notably in the Times Square specials of Doris Wishman ("Bad Girls Go to Hell," 1965), but then faded back to where she had come from: the roiling American subconscious.
After the opener, I faded back to the long oaken table where the Whiffs always sit, and listened to my colleagues belt out a smattering of offerings like "On Broadway" and "Too Darn Hot".
The opera takes the form of a gigantic sonic arc, growing from the placid waves of the opening to Matsukaze's harrowing vision, which is punctured by brassy explosions and hissing walls of sound, then fading back to the trembling stillness with which it began.
Yet at the same time, the fact that so many members of this once-vast circle have faded back to the rhythms of their daily lives, and that there is no longer someone there every hour of the day, suggests the extent to which New York is moving, slowly, though certainly, beyond the horror that consumed it.
This quarter's results are further proof that Apple's big business is still the iPhone, with the iPad fading back to a position more similar to the Mac, with consistent performance but far less growth potential compared to its still-growing smartphone sales.
