Sentences with phrase «slow descent into»

Evidently the hundred - thousand - year glacial cycles did follow a sawtooth pattern: each cycle showed a slow descent into a long - lasting cold state that ended with a mysteriously abrupt rise of temperature.

«Wood inlay's checkered history in Western culture is one of a regal beginning, followed by a long slow descent into kitsch,» she says.

I never finished this... I felt the same; so excited when it came out, loved it to start, and the slow descent into disappointment only got faster and faster as I played on.

The eerie game about a disturbed man's slow descent into madness, and your attempt to save him, has been ported to the PlayStation 4.

Also prominent, is Jason's slow descent into madness, as he becomes just as ruthless and as monstrous as the Vaas and Hoyt — the two main antagonists.

In the afternoons they booked up all six treatment rooms at the spa; at sundown they gathered on the wraparound porch for cocktails and the slow descent into dinnertime.

It's a spectacular piece of work, from director James Cameron's plotting of the story between past and present (though not his direction of Billy Zane) to the stunning execution of the ship's slow descent into the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

As the wheel upon which the film turns, Jordan burns bright, managing to play a slow descent into doubt and revelation without seeming to moralize, but the film's script ultimately underserves him.

This superior storytelling makes the evening unfurl like a slow descent into hell.

The film didn't really even build the sisters» relationship with the grandmother which definitely could've made her slow descent into death more heartbreaking (it also could've helped explain why neither of their parents were there).

Opening titles establish 1925 as the peak of this Barrymore's stage success, then followed by a slow descent into alcoholism, which would ultimately claim his life at age 60 in May of 1942.

This is the time of year where I normally begin a slow descent into depression.

The Autumnal Equinox is here on Monday, night and day are balanced before the slow descent into Winter.

Either American democracy is living on social capital inherited from an earlier time when Americans shared a common perspective on life's questions, in which case we face a slow descent into the fragmented and violent world Hauerwas sees; or else the enthusiastic, individualistic and yet genuinely loving piety of Emerson, Whitman and Ellison has a better grasp of our human nature, and it really is possible to be both democratic and virtuous.

Not exact matches

What can the politics of autonomy» which is the distillation of the politics of the Sixties» say in the face of the existential threats that will confront the next president of the United States and the next Congress: the threat of Jihadism (which has a very clear, and very different, idea of the good society), and the threat of a slow descent, via biotechnology, into the stunted humanity of the brave new world?

By the time the loaves bake the next day, the oven will be on a slow descent from its peak temperature of 800 degrees, and the heat trapped inside the bricks will shape the shaggy lumps into crackly, crusted loaves.

We very well might have just seen a double turn, the recklessly driven exclamation point to fans cheering for Braun and Roman's slow, months - long descent into heeldom through badassery.

Slowly but surely, cinema and reality begin to blur for Jones, and Strickland — an up - and - comer with a flair for slow burns — traces his descent into madness.

The AUDUSD downtrend continued last week but price did slow its descent as it hit 0.7500 key support area and moved sideways into the week's close.

After finishing University, I made that terribly scary step into real life and began the slow but steady descent into mundanity... But when the old society gang texted me to pop back out, it would have been nothing but rude to say no.

Sony is in rough financial shape and has been for a long time, resorting to selling a number of its assets just to slow its descent deeper into the red.

Tapping the jump button will launch you into the air in a rising leap, but the speed of your descent is far too slow.

But the game's quick descent into monotony and slow - pace ultimately makes it a slog to get through.

For example, the global temperature change when we recovered from the last ice age averaged only about 0.1 C per century (and descent into an ice age tended to be even slower)... whereas we are now looking at changes greater than that happening in one decade.

So, we might have been past the warmest period of this most recent interglacial, and beginning a slow, multi-thousand year descent into a new ice age — until we changed the atmospheric composition.

Leaving aside the descents into glaciation, which were much more gradual, the sudden (geologically speaking) jumps up in temperature every ~ 100,000 years represent a rate of change roughly ten times slower what we are currently witnessing.

However, those forcings weren't operative during the transition from ice age to interglacial; in order to explain the amplification necessary (rate and magnitude) for the small slow changes in solar influence due to Milankovic cycles to result in the rapid (compared to the descent into an ice age) transition to an interglacial, CO2 sensitivity must be higher.

Commissioned selling is the breeding ground for misrepresentation, smooth story telling, lying by omission, lying by fabrication, manipulation of trusting, ignorant clients who are really marks, for the purposes of that next commission cheque, and for the slow, steady descent by too many initially honest sales people into the wagon rut of slippery dealings for payoffs... in short... corrupt behaviour, which by the way, is woefully dealt with by the in - house supposed police state.