No degrading
slow decay for him.
Not exact matches
Those societies which can not combine reverence
for the symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately
decay either from anarchy or from the
slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.
Some have sat abandoned in cities like Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Yonkers, N.Y.,
for 20 years or more, their
slow decay chronicled online by «ruin porn» photographers.
Beta
decay is often very
slow, and, if the flux of neutrons is high, the nucleus might capture another neutron before there is time
for it to undergo
decay.
This
slowed the
decaying process down so that some of the remains (in most cases, only hard material like bone or shell) were preserved
for thousands of years.
Because large amounts of calcium are lost in the urine when magnesium is under supplied, the lack of this nutrient indirectly becomes responsible
for much rampant tooth
decay, poor bone development, osteoporosis and
slow healing of broken bones and fractures.
But in terms of its bleak finality, it makes
for one hell of a swan song, operating as a meticulous, concentric metaphor
for the
slow decay and eventual death of animals, people, families, language, countries, political systems — the whole bit.
No deal was struck and Arenas sat
for more than two decades in
slow decay, forgotten in a city racing into the 21st century.
The very
slow but undeniably steady music is a perfect match
for the dungeon's dull colour scheme, themes of
decay and famous light puzzles..
Documenting the passage of time, David Claerbout's drawings
for a film examine the
slow decay of a thousand years brought upon by natural elements, while Peter Liversidge's Polaroid diptychs focus on subtle atmospheric changes evoked in only a matter of minutes.
The growth and
decay of continental ice sheets represents a
slow feedback operating over millennia; if one is concerned with the more rapid response of the climate to CO2, ice sheets have to be accounted
for as a major forcing.
The wood may stand
for centuries inside a living tree, and it is
slow to
decay even when the tree dies.
While lots of carbon cycles in and out of the atmosphere from photosynthesis and
decay (most of that 95 % figure), the planet has a (comparably) very
slow rate of removing carbon from the atmosphere and oceans
for geological timescales — only enough to roughly cancel out volcanoes and other proportionally very small «old carbon» sources.