Instead of receding, the water bellies outward.
Instead of receding tidily into the background, as prescribed by traditional perspective, the forms in Braque's paintings advanced disconcertingly towards the viewer.
Instead of receding to a Renaissance horizon, El Greco's painting is a vortex of formless forms, spiritual bodies, swirling and tensing in a storm of hard-soft cloudy stabs of white, brown, blue.
Fear has receded, and instead of asking for lots of cash in their accounts, our clients are now convinced that selling anything is a big mistake.
The headache has receded enough that instead of pain that rendered her shocked and stunned, she now has ice skate blades cutting into the top of her head and vices on the side of her head.
"When instead of advancing towards the senses, the image recedes beneath the mark of the tool".
What if this woman, instead of having a beard, had, like you, a receding hairline?
Instead of drowning, Mr Pal's rice sprang back when the water receded.
AOL's role in the world today is much different than what it was, but instead of becoming a powerful brand in itself (like Yahoo!), it has receded into the background.
Instead of trying to compete with the beauty of the natural landscape, Mr. Oppenheim created a house that recedes into it, with 300-year-old recycled barn wood and locally quarried stone cladding and enormous picture windows.
