Sentences with phrase «like fading»

Now the task is, in part, to explore ways to ensure that the lessons of the Japanese disaster don't erode like the fading, forgotten inscriptions on the centuries - old tsunami warning stones along the wave - ravaged coast.

5:38 p.m. Updated Thomas Schelling, a Nobel Prize winner in economics who has long studied climate policy and diplomacy, told me last year that the way forward must involve much more of what legal scholars call «soft law» than old - style treaty making aimed at legally binding instruments like the fading Kyoto Protocol.

Olga Balema traps objects in water - filled plastic bags leaving them to rust, like a fading memory.

Just like the fading echoes of the evening temple bells, the smell of ash on a cold winter morning, the dried ink of unfinished sentences on a page, a storm of a dead leader, the footprints of a refugee on wet soil, the broken wings of a wasp in a forest and a thousand hopes dripping from melted wax in a church, yesterday succinctly washes into the shores of today in a whisper.

Taking images from the Internet, as well as his own manipulated iPhone pictures as a point of departure, the artist creates pale pictures that beautifully capture their subjects like fading memories.

Creating optical illusions in works like Fading Shadow, Houshiary layers the colors similar to the sky at dusk, where the blue of sky mixes with the fading red color of sunlight to appear pink.

Abandoned houses, churches, and bridges viewed at a distance appear like fading memories through the misty filter he creates.

Yet despite an ability to identify such tendencies, cities like San Francisco (or London) remain unstable and elusive, subject to physical as well as ideological shifts and disappearances — whether sudden and violent like an earthquake or gradual like the fading of a memory.

As the story goes on you embrace who you are and I would have to say you are really missing out on the game if you skip the comic strip like fading cinema scenes.

It can often look like fading kitten syndrome (see below).

Look like a fading prep; beard (could go, if important); sassy, self - centered, pompous, but good humored with the right...

We also discuss betting strategies like fading the public and managing your bankroll, and also answer your questions on the games.

Sobeys changed the things Safeway customers, employees and suppliers didn't want changed, like house brands, point - of - sale systems and long - standing relationships, and didn't alter those that needed refreshing, like the fading state of the stores.

The Mailer who can write a sentence like «his eyes were blue like the faded blue of the sky when the sky is white» is about as far as is humanly possible from the Mailer whose political reporting in the early 1960s remains irresistible long after its subjects have faded» and reestablished his literary reputation that had begun to fade with the critical and popular questioning of the novels that followed The Naked and the Dead.

Topher shows us how easy it is to slip back into old patterns of illogic, though he will quite likely demonstrate how no longer useful traits get weeded out of the gene pool as those few like him fade into the past.

It's so perfectly placed, it looks like a fade route booted off someone's toe.

We know the lessons sink in but it's like they fade from her mind after a certain amount of time and she's back to her old ways.

In some lighting, it is more like a faded silver and in others it's a light blue.

Pair casual, like these faded denim jeans, with luxe, like these velvet slipper shoes with faux fur, for that effortlessly chic look.

I do like the fade - colouring of the H&M pair.

Neutrals like faded denim, black pants, or even a leopard print would work well with these tones, the reason why I styled this look the way that I did, also to keep from looking like a pumpkin

Hi, Love the dress, and really like the faded jean jacket to go with.

It was much imitated, so the sequel plays like a faded, eighth - generation copy with a cast that's shooting blanks when it comes to humor.

Main characters Nina and Max come off like faded photocopies of Nico and George from Broken Sword, trying hard to emulate their series - driving chemistry but falling well short of the goal.

Together with (frankly ridiculous) six - piston Brembo front calipers and four - piston rears, the SS 1LE makes short work of concepts like fade, «understeer, and the limitations of friction.

But Gideon's father wore his days like a faded suit, an empty man whose only passion rose from thoughts of his long - dead wife.

Rebecca Wright: Your works appear to me almost like a faded Polaroid picture, evoking memory that is in the process of disappearing.

And though the idea of framing the bric - a-brac of his childhood memories is interesting, next to the more socially - engaged installations of his neighbors, Structure, Balance, Leisure II practically vanishes like a faded recollection.

You can use basic video editing programs (such as Windows Movie Maker or even iMovie) to trim some parts of the video and also add special effects like fade outs, transitions, and title cards — all of which can bring your video from meh to memorable.

Mine could use a makeover but even with things like a faded couch it feels special to sit and put my feet up after a busy day!

Brenda Porter, interior designer, Calgary «PARMA GRAY 27, FARROW & BALL is like a faded blue cotton shirt made soft with repeated washings.

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Perhaps the search giant is actually tempted to follow the example of older companies like Microsoft and Qualcomm which, as their capacity for product innovation fades, have turned to their patent portfolios as a new revenue stream.

But like the wounds etched in the faces of those lashed by Lululemon's Don't Hurry Be Happy pullover, this matter will fade with time.

Meal kit mania may fade in a few years, and when it does, the newspapers and magazines will quietly tiptoe away from the business, just like they did with daily deals.

Campers especially liked Zinger's outfits: 36 percent preferred the one he wore on the first day («Boot Camp Demi God»), edging out the 34 percent who picked Day Three (faded jeans, white shirt, corduroy blazer with elbow patches — «Too Cool for School»).

Islamist terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda are also involved in the war, but even as terrorist groups» grip on certain areas of the country fades, the war between the rebels and Assad doesn't seem likely to stop anytime soon.

«People are feeling like their whole sectors may fade away, and that brings sadness or loss,» says Leiter.

Even Viacom (VIAB) has seen better than expected results, despite being embroiled in a power struggle between CEO Philippe Dauman and controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone — and despite criticism for its lackluster stable of fading brands like Nickelodeon and Comedy Central.

Others develop epic mission statements, which are never truly understood, much less read, and hence fade into the background like last year's nature wall calendar you refuse to take down.

Like meditation, one of the main reasons walking is so powerful is it melts the world away so your thoughts fade into the distance.

And, critically from the point of view of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the band's biggest singles like «Enjoy the Silence» and «Personal Jesus» haven't ever really faded from view.

We used fade - outs and fade - ins, so it almost feels like the end of a day.

The lines that separated mobile networks from home broadband networks is fading as consumers use their mobile connections for more digital activities, like streaming video.

Like any wellness trend among the wealthy and powerful, the popularity of meditation may fade, but that doesn't mean you should dismiss the practice.

They've never been the flavor du jour like a Facebook or a Google, or even sites that had moments that shined then faded into the background or faded into obscurity.»

Many brands see something like this and wonder whether social customer care will eventually fade away, as trolls and people who hate brands overwhelm a brand's ability to engage customers in constructive conversations.

When blockchain, like the internet before it, fades to the background, it can begin changing the world.

Swanson: Investors may want to be wary amid high valuations and the potential for this economic upturn to fade like others this cycle.

James Swanson says that there have been four economic upturns like the one we're experiencing now within the current economic cycle but all of them have faded.

Right now there is like Yahoo was the first for the most asked and and and then Yahoo faded and lost all of its advantages.