Sentence examples for recede in time from inspiring English sources

Flash-lit, with inky shadows, in a corner of a white-walled apartment, the picture is a baroque icon, becoming classical as its period qualities recede in time.

Pluck your eyebrows if necessary, for if you do it in the morning the redness may not recede in time and you might just patch on the make up a bit too much.

As it recedes in time, its history grows not smaller and simpler but grander and more complex.

The film, written and directed by Douglas McGrath, is a valentine both to Mr. Weintraub and to a way of life and business — the ring-a-ding-ding, Rat Pack, Vegas-Palm Vegas-Palm Springs-L.A. Springs-L.A.ows morollingorous as it recedes in time.

The Oscars are behind us and as the season recedes in time's rearview mirror, your Carpetbagger (the moniker's a riff on the red carpet, by the way) is finding that writing anything else on the awards grows ever more difficult.

Automatic stabilizers are programs like unemployment insurance and welfare that increase during economic downturns but recede in good times.

But it's a defect that will recede in importance as time goes by -- 10 years from now (and this book is going to be around far longer than that, if Yale will only keep it in print), so much will have happened that these particular omissions won't stand out.

Unfortunately, that John McCain has receded from view just in time for the presidential campaign.

In time she receded, bearing silent witness as so many of her kind defected to the higher ranks of the Power Executive, or morphed into Asexual Administrative Assistants.

In time, temptations receded, new habits formed and I began to have a love affair with vegetables.

In time, the sea receded and swampy Carboniferous growth sprang up.