Sentence examples for he was vanishing from inspiring English sources
When, in 1989, a group of sociologists led by Yuri Levada began to study what they called Soviet Man, an artificial construct of doublethink, paternalism, suspicion and isolationism, they thought he was vanishing.
One afternoon, as he was vanishing with Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse under his arm, he mused: "Just think, you're the only person in the universe who knows that I'm taking a shit.
"But we think they are not thinking the right way, because we see every day that he is vanishing and going away".
Only he's vanished without a trace.
He added that the fact that his whereabouts was unknown "does not lead me to believe that he's vanished".
"I sit down and look over at the recliner chair and he's vanished," Debora said of her husband, a senior vice president at Aon Corporation on the 105th floor of 2 World Trade Center.
He's vanished, like bad guys in novels will do.
We know he has to be there, but it's as if he's vanished.
They are experts at selling folks a bill of goods - like the used car salesman who's already moved on when you realize he sold you a lemon and you go back to find him and he's vanished.
This made Obrist remember Umberto Eco's comments on how handwriting was vanishing; he also thought of marvellous faxes he had received, all handwritten, from J. G. Ballard, when he interviewed him, in 2003.
