Western society is highly youth-centric: valuing industriousness, productivity, and vitality, marginalizing the aging population who easily sense themselves fading into irrelevance.
Perhaps growing up with Alexa will actually make technology less distracting, enabling it to, in a sense, fade into the background; we'll get what we need from it, and then move on with our lives until we come back with another request.
The following do not fit with swag dress-sense: Faded, stained or pilled clothing.
Have you ever noticed that your sense of smell fades, or perhaps completely disappears, when you have a cold?
But I can sense your erection fading.
When the channel that forwards sensing observations experiences fading, the sensing performance degrades significantly.
At first, he felt nothing, but eventually he experienced a sense of fading, as though he were falling asleep.
In another director's hands, the characters' sense of fading potential might have been somewhat more affecting, but here the emotional core remains out of reach.
The sense of fading seen in the Middle High German val and Early New High German fahl, for example, suggests fealo, in many poetic contexts, serves to connote a sense of temporality rather than hue.
Curtains swiftly open and close to give a convincingly cinematic sense of fading in and out of scenes, providing "David et Jonathas" — whose sections in its original incarnation were interspersed among the acts of a nonmusical play — with inexorable continuity.
For newspapers, though, there may have to be a radical re-think: journalism as a trade in the traditional sense is fading into history, and increasingly the major media sources are having to reinvent themselves as digital platforms; they will have to develop a culture of R&D, they will need to think like San Francisco startups.
