Last week I walked down to the mailbox long after dark, and out in the open, where the darkness lessened, I saw an atmosphere full of insects drifting past, like the metropolitan scene in a science fiction movie, with airborne traffic vectoring this way and that.
It seemed to work – my panic attacks started to lessen, I felt calmer and I had an actual relationship with a girl I was in love with.
It seemed to work – my panic attacks started to lessen, I felt calmer and I had an actual relationship with a girl I was in love with.
Referring to Medicaid, he said, "If they are talking about changing the program, or lessening it, well, I am still waiting for them to give us a list of items they think should be cut from the program".
"I think increasing the pressure is better than lessening it," Torre said.
(Compare Cheever's account of being given a gin and tonic by her father after her first great crush rejected her: "I began to feel better. The yearning lessened.... I could feel myself relaxing, as if I had suddenly become part of the great scheme of things").
"Sometimes I feel that they over-retouch things and it makes people look funny....Of course, if there's a big roll of flab coming out somewhere that doesn't look flattering, sure, I'd love that to be lessened, but I don't like to look like a cartoon character, either.
A love of geography never left me; as soon as the demands of medical training lessened I began to explore.
Although there appears to be an ethnicity-specific belief that asthma is contagious and stigmatising, the prevalence and impact of such beliefs may be lessening amongst minority (i.e. diasporic) South Asian population as a result of acculturation.
I agree with Mr. Levy that the bureaucratic hurdles for new teachers must be lessened, and I also agree that salaries and working conditions must be commensurate with other professions'.
