Even the landscape seems to shrink from grandeur.
Unlike more visible jazz club owners like the Knitting Factory's ubiquitous Michael Dorf, Mr. Borden seems to shrink from publicity.
For his part, Mr. Kean said he was interested in reforms, although he seemed to shrink from Mr. DiVincenzo's embrace.
But it does not hide the performance of the Alpine skiers, who seemed to shrink from the major competition on the world stage.
Amazingly, though, James seemed to shrink from another moment (in an All-Star Game?) when he passed up a chance at a game-winning 3-pointer with Bryant taunting him to shoot, writes Adrian Wojnarowski on Yahoo.com.
Not since Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen seemed to shrink from each other in "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith" has there been such an embarrassing lack of lovers' chemistry.
The next day, Bill Smith, a lobbyist for Gill Action, a gay-rights group, turned to the governor and asked, "How many rabbits are you going to pull out of the hat?" Outgunned Opponents It was befuddling to gay-rights advocates: The Catholic Church, arguably the only institution with the authority and reach to derail same-sex marriage, seemed to shrink from the fight.
The police, too, seem to shrink away from confrontation.
Honey's eyes seem to shrink into tiny slits from which she peeks out only intermittently, preferring the company of her own giddy thoughts sloshing around her head like the brandy in her glass.
Mr Liem, who founded the Salim group, a grouping that makes both cement and noodles, vies with Mohamad Hasan (see page) as Indonesia's networker-in-chief.Rather than move towards this system, most western firms seem to shrink ever further away from it.
