Sentence examples for losing definition from inspiring English sources

He's losing definition in his voice, but in ways that are less interesting than Bob Dylan, Neil Young or Tom Waits.

I saw the first ash enter the air like a drop of dye in water, shooting forward then folding in on itself, expanding, losing definition, before being recharged with another burst.

In recent years the analysis of the city has indeed changed, since the axis shifted from the historic nucleus to the outskirts, as far as the external territories, and since the city exploded, losing definition in systems characterised by the absence of rules, and setting off the social and economic problems this involved.

Even in the best of conditions fresh tracks can quickly deteriorate, losing definition under the heat of the sun or getting swept by wind.

The image, reduced to a series of dots, has begun to lose definition.

With so much clutter, the emotions lose definition and the politics go fuzzy with them.

"For the first time in her life she lost definition," Ms. Gornick recalled.

Perhaps he loses definition when denied the chance to speak in his natural accent, just as Maggie Smith, crisply coy with her Scottish tones, is allowed to veer, a little too close for comfort, toward the dotage of Miss Jean Brodie.

It's some time in the late evening, it's hard to be exact: time, for the parents of babies clinging to life in a paediatric intensive care unit, turns thick and sticky, its edges lose definition and hours disappear.

It costs nothing to adjust your ISO setting, which increases the camera's sensitivity to light, but typically lowers the quality of the image - you are likely to lose definition and get those grainy speckles called "noise".

"Another Autumn," for instance, is a series of one-line sketches — "a feathering of the ink whereby characters lose definition" is followed by "overlapping windowscreens, one pattern interfering with another," which is in turn followed by "sideways, all the politeness, all that irony, trying for a draw" (an echo of a line from "A Pillow-Book," a much earlier O'Brien poem).