But as the last of the pale grey light recedes from the cloudy skies, I find the moments before and after the official service most compelling.
Then the light receded and we fell back into darkness.
A car passes and the lights recede down the long straight and fade out.
The red lights recede on one side of the road while the yellow ones shine towards you on the other, the reflections of both dancing in the dark glass in front of you.
Like city lights, receding..."...
Baseball has gone away, its tail-lights receding in the woods and then winking off around the bend.
By Roger Angell November 5, 2015 Matt Harvey, during Game 5. Baseball has gone away, its tail-lights receding in the woods and then winking off around the bend.
Like city lights, receding... " The machine-metaphor is still dominant here, but even the prophet of cyberspace cannot resist an architectural comparison in describing a massively distributed artificial "mind".
The dancers continually emerge from under this light and recede into the darkness around it.
