fading away

Noun

Meaning

gradually diminishing in brightness or loudness or strength

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The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music. Bobby Vinton

I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. ... I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. Kazuo Ishiguro

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away. Thomas Haynes Bayly

I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it. Anderson Cooper

I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory. Jean-Dominique Bauby

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be. Seth Godin

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