Sentence examples for that was receding from inspiring English sources

"Obama was up here looking at the glaciers, and pointing out a glacier that was receding.

The book also offers a glimpse of an insular world that was receding even as Mrs. Parish was triumphing in it.

In the left-leaning magazine The Nation, the cultural historian Thomas Bender described it as an account of the well-meaning but largely unsuccessful efforts of reformers to provide immigrants with a moral order "that was receding irretrievably into the past".

Obama was up here looking at, say, the glaciers and pointing out a glacier that was receding.

"It told a story of happy, mystical brotherhood that was receding ever further into fantasy as the band grappled with the tragedy of Duane's death," according to biographer Alan Paul.

With his data-set mentality, Romney has chosen to model himself on a version of Republicanism that is receding into memory.

It's a bit of mythmaking, by a poet of loss, about a place that's receding from experience, and that might never have been there in the first place.

He has short light-brown hair that's receding and thinning at the crown, a nose you notice, broad cheeks, a strong jaw, blue-gray eyes, and often a slightly weary demeanor.

Christopher Philip Howe's thoughtful review of Rhidian Brook's novel The Aftermath is premised on the absence of personal experience of a traumatic period of history that is receding from living memory.

Professor Naison, a 61-year-old with round, thick-framed glasses and ruffled gray hair that is receding, perhaps best got his point across when he took to the stage.

The point is that it's entirely reasonable to believe that the big factors driving globalization were one-time changes that are receding in the rear-view mirror, so that we should expect the share of trade in GDP to plateau — and that this doesn't represent any kind of problem.