Sentence examples for inevitable decay from inspiring English sources

Ghoulish jesting or a more tragic meditation on our inevitable decay?

Conservators will ruefully admit that the work they do simply slows down inevitable decay.

But the main inspiration is Robert Smithson, whose writings and deliberately precarious Earthworks made entropy, the inevitable decay of all things, an early 1970's buzzword.

All creatures are perceived to be locked in mortal combat from the time they are conceived until they finally lose the ­battle, either with each other or with their own inevitable decay.

Salvors, who since 1987 have recovered thousands of artifacts, have long argued that the wreck's inevitable decay made their work important, even as critics questioned their integrity and thoroughness.

The mother continues to groom the body, slowing the inevitable decay.

There's something refreshing about how "Happy Valley" treats violence not as power but as chaos, an inevitable psychological decay that causes even the worst criminals to turn on one another as the cops close in.

He suggested that the inevitable structural decay that accompanies such transactions could be delayed, although not reversed, by the system's accumulation of energy from outside.

The time taken for RNAi to knock down gene function depends on the half-life of the protein and there is an inevitable delay before the residual protein decays.

His tours have become a kind of yearly medical checkup — which is to say, animated by the spirit of candid probing and propelled forward by the slow, inevitable drumroll of decay.

Nature as such is under the sway of the entropy principle: the process of inevitable and relentless decay.