Sentences with phrase «as the novelty faded»

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Bitcoin is just a blip in history, destined to fade away as the novelty wears off.

Habitual patterns of response, such as getting dressed, riding a bicycle, using a typewriter, so painfully and self - consciously learned at the time, become quite unconscious.37 A centralized nervous system or its close analogue may be the necessary basis for consciousness, but consciousness itself is the inner concomitant of the presence of some novelty which has not yet faded into the background through incessant repetition.

Of course, as more people use Twitter and its novelty fades, this route may be pinched off, just as it's now harder to reach many reporters via email now than it was when it was a shiny new tool.

They found that they got more bang for the buck with SMS than with emails, since recipients were much less likely to ignore a text message (an effect that may diminish as text messages» novelty fades).

I'm sure my feeble wardrobe rebellion will fade as the month wears on and I'll have many more wintery looks on the way (I am actually excited to get back to playing with layers and I'm a sucker for novelty print tights.

I found that walking seemed to alleviate my spirits, and so, once the novelty of the Exhibition had begun to fade, I started to explore the centre of Glasgow, to familiarise myself with this Second City of the Empire, this place of many hills - and it was on one of these invigorating excursions that I first encountered two ladies who, as it transpired, turned out to be close relatives of Ned Gillespie.

The world watches as the situation in Chester's Mill goes downhill fast, and then turns away once the novelty of a town sealed off from the rest of the world fades and other news stories take top billing, recalling tragedies like Hurricane Katrina.

What can and can't be done is tightly controlled so the novelty quickly fades as you get to know the maps.