She is inviting us to grow a notch and keep that growth going after she recedes her waters and calls her storm home.
Her legs swelled, her gums receded, and her hair fell out.
"Out past the seastack, she moved along the coast, the sound of the waves in her ears, another deafness, the blood receding from her fingers, her toes, her mind".
After a good day, she is merely disinclined to eat for a few hours, until the stench has receded from her nostrils and her fingernails have been scrubbed clean.
Her double chin had receded, but her cheeks had puffed up.
The flood waters that surged through her village in the Sunamganj district of north-east Bangladesh have receded, but her family is one of many struggling to cope after losing both home and belongings.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, speaking at the University of Melbourne Law School in Australia, in no way receded from her view that the decision was seriously misguided.
The floodwaters that rushed in after a levee broke on an irrigation canal early Saturday had largely receded in her one-story rental, but they left a sty of stained furniture, soaked power strips and damaged computer parts.
Scots may suffer from afternoon gloom, but at least it's Scottish gloom, Mrs. Kaka said recently, her words seeming to fade as the feeble midafternoon light (it was not yet 3 p.m). receded around her, like color being leeched from a painting.
In 1942, Max Ernst, auditioning his next lover, visited her studio in New York and admired an untitled self-portrait of Tanning, her blouse parted to reveal her breasts, some sort of winged monkey at her feet, corridors of open doors receding behind her: the classic Surrealist lexicon.
