If their starting pitchers, for example, begin to falter, the Mets could do a quick fade.
There were a lot of quick fade-outs, and the one at the end made the whole affair seem inconclusive.
Part of the quick "fade-out" of the vacation effects may be due to the way your tasks pile up when you're away.
Tere O'Connor is a master of the quick fade, in which emotions and movement bubble up and vanish with little warning.
What ornamentation she employs comes mainly from bluegrass and brother-team singing the pounce on certain syllables, the dying falls, the trills, the quick fades and returns, the small tear though she manages, partly by the solemnity of her bearing, to give the impression of singing without artifice, which in itself is dramatic.
What ornamentation she employs comes mainly from bluegrass and brother-team singing — the pounce on certain syllables, the dying falls, the trills, the quick fades and returns, the small tear — though she manages, partly by the solemnity of her bearing, to give the impression of singing without artifice, which in itself is dramatic.
Just a single burst of youthful idealism, then a quick fade to the back?
By contrast, the (predominantly gay male) creative team behind the play don't seem much interested in its closeted husband, reducing homosexuality to seamy stereotypical trysts to be briefly flashed to before quick fade-outs, or underscored as sinister with an overwrought clankiness that borders on camp.
The school's longest basketball season came to a merciful and fairly painless conclusion a week ago Friday in the ACC Tournament, the Terrapins following their usual '87 script in losing to North Carolina: play tough for a half, then do a quick fade in the second.
