Lovely singers, actresses, even businesswomen visibly shrink the more successful they become.
James Simons, who runs the hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies, seemed to visibly shrink as the cameramen crowded around him.
It's the way he draws them: the letters in Death got gradually smaller across the card, as if time were visibly shrinking.
When you press a certain keystroke (of your choosing), all windows in all programs visibly shrink and array themselves across the screen like non-overlapping tiles.
Both Ms. Pelosi and Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, are inside players who seem to visibly shrink on camera when defending their policies, rarely connecting with the skeptical independent voters who raged so loudly on Tuesday.
As Florentino and Fermina age more than 50 years Mr. Bardem's Florentino visibly shrinks and withers into a stooped old man whose cow-eyed gazes soften into a doting, faraway twinkle.
As the temperature in the sacristy tops 100 degrees and Patrick's ill-fitting tuxedo seems to visibly shrink from touching his sweaty body, Rita, the mother from hell and future mother-in-law from hell, makes her grand entrance.
The woman and the children set off walking on a cart track, and although they were clearly moving away and their figures were visibly shrinking, it took more than three-quarters of an hour, by the lawyer's reckoning, for them to disappear from the horizon.
Europe is visibly shrinking and Juncker is a symbol of that shrunken, quiet-life parochialism, the head-in-the-sand candidate, presented as the pan-European democratic choice when Marine Le Pen, Nigel Farage or Beppe Grillo each has a more potent national claim.
In perhaps the show's most heartbreaking episode, Karen Boies, a mother whose daughter was killed in a house fire, visibly shrinks under the gaze of a detective who convinces her, through hours of interrogation without a lawyer present, that because she failed a polygraph test, she must have been the one to set the fire.
