Sentence examples for he receded from inspiring English sources
"The real world," Mr. Takayama said, laughing, then he receded into the shadows.
The other irony of his life was that Guthrie only really became visible after he receded from view.
The man was speechless for a moment, then beat his hands on the surface and shrieked invectives as he receded in the darkness.
Hope was slightly more common here after lvaro Colom's victory four years ago, but Guatemalans say despair began to mount as he receded from public view and failed to tackle impunity even as Mexican drug cartels colonized towns and much of the northern border.
Afterwards, a few old friends and former colleagues speculated on the fate of a book Rendall had started several years earlier, the one that was supposed to be his magnum opus but somehow got lost in the chaos of his final years, when he receded into a grim seclusion.
After Yakobus makes a few more attempts to give him tobacco, the stranger slips into the jungle, his shouts fading as he recedes.
As Prokoviev presciently observed, Diaghilev is "a giant, undoubtedly the only one whose dimensions increase the more he recedes into the distance".
Shot almost entirely in hunched-over profile, he recedes from the camera and speaks with an apposite economy, rarely asking questions that last more than a fraction of a second.
Pudgy and mild-mannered, he is eager to please, quick to embrace, and, when he is offended or patronized — something I saw happen more than once in the halls and offices of the Knesset — he recedes, wincing slightly, as if experiencing an unpleasant digestive event.
The film shows Lung Neaw (Lung is a Thai courtesy title meaning Uncle) going about his daily rituals as he goes to market, hunts, visits a forest to pick herbs for cooking, bathes in a river, prays, chops wood and takes a long walk during which the nearly stationary camera observes him from afar for several minutes as he recedes into the distance.
