Loyal customers see fashion like a soda that loses its value when it loses its fizz.
Where will people buy Sam Leith's book in Slough – subject of that famous Betjeman poem bemoaning its cultural barrenness – when it loses its only branch later this year?
The chick will regain its natural color when it loses its down, or baby feathers.
Still, the movie is going to take a huge hit on March 5th anyway, when it loses its IMAX and many of its 3D screens to Tim Burton's Return to Oz, I mean Alice in Wonderland.
But, when its entertainment consistently flaunts debasing behavior and attitudes, that is when it loses its merit.
"So when it loses its leaves, you see this haze of pink," Ms. Dickey said.
Then again, what happens to a champion when it loses its heart?
Almodóvar's tone is not like anyone else's; the film has the exaggerated plot of an absurdist Hollywood romance, and even when it loses its beat (after a murder) there's always something happening.
Now, when it loses its share of viewers' eyeballs, it will lose revenue to the same extent.Mr Saban bluntly called ITV a declining asset, referring to the fact that it has been shedding viewers for years.
Some slang becomes respectable when it loses its edge; "spunk," "fizzle," "spent," "hit the spot," "jazz," "funky," and "p.o.'d," once thought to be too indecent for feminine ears, are now family words.
Technology, Yannaras argues, is toxic when it forgets this artistic and transformational dimension – that is (in the terms I've been using here) when it loses its proper human intelligence.
