But, unlike in the movie, the Tin Man shows his chipping rust, the Cowardly Lion is a wind-up doll, and the Wicked Witch is fodder for a new generation of nightmares: she wears one silver pump and one street shoe, her red-yarn hair receding off a large forehead and her left eye protruding from the end of a telescope, half a foot from her sallow face.
As soon as it starts receding, shave it off".
This sensibility initially came through in her photographs of Islamic architecture and urban signage, and later in linear pencil and ink drawings on graph paper, which suggest receding perspectives and lifting-off futuristic forms.
The receding hair swept off the brow, the noble nose – which in a less handsome face could be too much of a good thing – and, of course, the feted eyes.
Lines, shapes, shadows and colors took on a life of their own, floating off walls and receding back slyly.
These properties include the apparent advancing and receding contact angles, the roll-off angle, tensile and lateral adhesion, the impalement pressure, and the observation of drop impact.
If it's receding, shave it all off.
Baseball has gone away, its tail-lights receding in the woods and then winking off around the bend.
By Roger Angell November 5, 2015 Matt Harvey, during Game 5. Baseball has gone away, its tail-lights receding in the woods and then winking off around the bend.
Show: 'Greenland' Artist: Jonathan Bartlett Synopsis (from Fringenyc.org): "Receding ice levels reveal a new island off the coast of Greenland.
In the distance, I could see the rapidly receding wake of the two boats that, minutes before, had dropped off our party in this remote spot.
