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Descending in sentence

141 examples of Descending in a sentence

This is looking at ascending versus descending flights.
It's a perfect evocation of that great population survey, the six largest nations in the world in descending order: China, India, Facebook, the United States, Twitter and Indonesia.
And after a few moments, her therapist tries a new tack, and they start singing together, and Gabby starts to sing through her tears, and you can hear her clearly able to enunciate the words to a song that describe the way she feels, and she sings, in one descending scale, she sings, "Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine."
Here's Jim descending steps, reaching with his bionic toe to the next stair tread, automatically exhibiting natural motions without him even trying to move his limb.
It's why in two days, people will be descending on Dublin to take the walking tour of Bloomsday and see everything that happened in "Ulysses," even though none of that happened.
It's absolutely about that beautiful, perfect thing descending upon us in perfection.
From the prisoner strapped under a descending pendulum blade, to a raven who refuses to leave the narrator’s chamber, Poe’s macabre and innovative stories of gothic horror have left a timeless mark on literature.
And these input signals coming from descending modulation from higher parts of the brain, like the motor cortex, the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, will all modulate activity of the spinal cord while we do locomotion.
Just changing the global drive, as if you are pressing the gas pedal of descending modulation to your spinal cord, makes a complete switch between two very different gaits.
And the only thing we do is send to the robot through a remote control the two descending signals it normally should receive from the upper part of the brain.
Especially, it loses this descending modulation to initiate and modulate locomotion.
Let us hold people to account, without descending into a culture that thrives off shaming and injustice ourselves.
The source eternally here, ascent and descending: air.
This is an event that takes place once a year and has around 2,000 people descending on MIT's campus and solving puzzles in teams that range from a single person to over 100.
Descending to the ground, she searches for a suitable spot to build her nest.
Then, she starts digging a descending tunnel ending in a chamber.
And people, at the time, feared that South Africa would end up going the way that Rwanda has gone, descending into one skirmish after another in a civil war that seems to have no end.
usually a movie that starts bad stays bad in a monotonically descending pattern.
The success of the original French "Emmanuelle" series (I've only watched the first, which wasn't too bad considering) led to a spate of imitations; the Italian counterpart, which even changed the race of its heroine, was clearly less polished and more exploitative - descending more and more into vulgarity as the series went along.
Cannot the entire weight of millions of wannabes descending on Hollywood with scripts and reels in hand rescue us from these horrible TV-movies-made-to-order?
The movie followed a descending curve from good to ordinary to bad to ludicrous by the time it concluded.
Take the scene on the steps and note the repeated shot of the soldiers descending, to reiterate the point of the horrors that actually did happen!
Fengyi Zhang showed a lot of flexibility portraying a ruler descending into madness.
I didn't know what to expect sitting down to watch this: a civil war movie or some kind of 70's soft-core peddling with Eastwood descending on a school for girls in the South.
So WHY, WHY is it so hard to find this great little flick, clearly done by people who love noir as a loving homage (buit never descending into spoof land) of that most cinematic of genres.
She becomes more and more involved, not to say obsessed, with what happened to her predecessor in the old dark house full of descending stairways and locked cellars.
The characters do and say unimaginably stupid stuff (like descending into the sewers unarmed while they KNOW it's infested with rats), the acting is atrocious and there's a genuinely bizarre sequence involving the hero having sex under the influence of growth-serum!
He came out with a handful of good movies then descending into poor stories, bad camera work and a walk-thru persona, he nearly lost me.
The ending is remarkably incoherent, alternating between scenes of the monster holding the final meteorite fragment aloft and quick views of a descending roman candle ball which makes funny sounds.
However the movie has three things going for it, in descending order of interest.
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