Sentence examples for receded into himself from inspiring English sources

Flynt closes his eyes, and his face goes blank, as if he has momentarily receded into himself.

He keeps a firm grip on the character's inner terrors — his habit of receding into himself, his appalling torments and phantoms, his weirdly impersonal relations with women.

I've run this story through my head a million times: one of my best friends—an unnaturally talented writer and a top bloke slowly began to recede into himself.

receded into the background.

Kohl receded into history.

The city receded into the distance.

All the other teams receded into history.

History had never receded into the past.

The rest of the Democratic field receded into the distance.

The horror of two world wars receded into the past.

Off the stern, the Strait of Gibraltar receded into the distance.