"Neptune", the final movement, concludes with a wordless female chorus gradually receding, an effect which Warrack likens to "unresolved timelessness ... never ending, since space does not end, but drifting away into eternal silence".
For years now, polar ice has been melting and glaciers have been receding, but those effects of rising global temperatures go on quietly, far from the centers of civilization.
A possible explanation of the absence of an effect of receding sounds in Experiment 2 is that receding sounds, under particular circumstances, affect the perceived in-depth orientation of plws but that in Experiment 2 it was easier to ignore receding sounds than to ignore looming sounds.
Alternatively, if looming and receding sounds had an effect such that the perceived in-depth orientation was modified in the direction suggested by the sound, proportions of FTV responses should be higher in the looming condition and lower in the receding condition, compared to the no-sound condition.
But the effects of El Niño have receded, and the effects of global warming are clear, said Nasa's Gavin Schmidt.
The opening of her new novel, "The Keep," lays out a whole Escherian architecture, replete with metafictional trapdoors, pitfalls, infinitely receding reflections and trompe l'oeil effects, but what's more immediately striking about this book is its unusually vivid and convincing realism.
I've traveled to very remote places and I've seen the effects of glaciers receding, what was happening to certain national parks.
The deep perspective of Mickey's stage and the tractor, both now crisply delineated, create a wide-angle lens effect: a conical space receding rapidly.
But as national and international media coverage of these events recedes, the local effects persist often for years.
Whether the centerpiece of a dish was fish, bird or mammal, whether it was roasted, poached or smoked, it took as supple a form as possible, and it seldom receded behind grandstanding effects.
The hysteria receded but its effects lingered: after organizing the making of a documentary of the "Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom," which helped bring Martin Luther King to national prominence, the Lerners found themselves closed out of the campaign for racial equality, they thought because of their radical past.
