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141 examples of Descending in a sentence

He can take a man's pocket watch, even though newly cleaned, and determine that the owner was poor but had come from a well-off family, that he had periods of income but they never lasted, that he was an alcoholic and that he was descending into madness.
The obvious uses are the digitally filmed closeup shots in low-light of skin in Roman church art masterpieces leading up to the parallel shots of skin when the actors touch ... but note in particular the clenched hand on the sheet at the end of that scene, to be followed later by a montage of clenched hands on ancient statuary (interspersed with an angel) and the almost penultimate shot of a hand at the denouement .... Cinematic style, very specific choices of music, and such foreshadowing all enhance an intriguing character study of an individual descending into emotional turmoil with superbly subtle directorial style.
2012 the economy has hit bottom, broke through and has kept on descending.
His smoldering good looks are wonderful, and he can portray reserve without descending into woodenness and blankness.
This film is a horrifying journey from reason and faith to superstition descending into madness.
You just can't hold a rope while somebody is descending, it has to be anchored.
In fact, the basic concept that is sometimes called “Web 2.0” rests on the idea of user-based content bubbling up from below rather than descending from the top of a traditional information hierarchy.
Seventy-two years after Winston Churchill declared that an “iron curtain” was descending across Eastern Europe, a new sort of border is being erected – a curtain of shame.
The aid that Ethiopia receives from its friends may be a small price to pay to keep Africa’s second largest country from descending into chaos.
Can the chaos that is descending on the United Kingdom be good for Europe, or even for Britain?
On this anniversary, with an era of geopolitical tension again descending on the European continent, it is worth reminding ourselves what the new normal has meant for the countries that joined the EU ten years ago – and what it could mean for Ukraine.
Many governments’ determination to “erect electronic barriers” to block their citizens’ efforts to access the full resources of the Internet, she said, means that “a new information curtain is descending across our world.”
Sons of the Mau MauWASHINGTON – At the beginning of last year, Kenya seemed to be descending into madness.
Nature has the critical experimental data that we need to finally place Earth in context, within a zoo of worlds emerging from ice ages, worlds descending into greenhouse hells, young worlds, old worlds, barren worlds, and possibly worlds teeming with life.
On June 28 th , 1989, St Vitus's Day, while most Eastern Europeans were daring to dream of a non-communist future, a million Serbs prepared to leap into the past with Slobodan Milosevic, descending on the Field of Blackbirds in Kosovo to mark the 600th anniversary of Serbia's defeat by the Turks.
With France suffering the return of violent street protests and the United Kingdom’s Brexit circus descending into chaos, Germany might look like an oasis of relative stability.
On the other hand, they see Kabila as perhaps the only political figure who can prevent his unruly country from descending into chaos again.
The refugee crisis is rooted partly in the failure of European foreign policy to prevent North Africa and the Middle East from descending into chaos.
With Iraq rapidly descending into bloody chaos, the prospects for holding successful democratic elections in January, as the US and the Iraqi interim government have promised, look bleak.
To resist the populist backlash, we Europeans should be proclaiming the EU’s virtues more loudly, without descending to the populists’ level.
Europe’s Ukrainian Road to NormalityLONDON – As Europe celebrates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, dark clouds are again descending on the continent.
Moving eastward along the arc, Pakistan is descending ever deeper into domestic turmoil.
Naming China among a handful of countries that have stepped up Internet censorship, Clinton warned that “a new information curtain is descending across much of the world.”
Venezuela’s Unending OrdealBOGOTA – Venezuela is descending ever deeper into violence, with street protests spreading rapidly across the country.
The national reservations must be go, and a joint strategy for success must be adopted, including a massive increase in civilian and military aid for Afghanistan, if the country is to be prevented from descending into the same abyss as Iraq.
The Coming Franco-German Bust-UpBERLIN – The politics of Brexit is descending into chaos.
While the G7 summit was descending into mutual recrimination, another highly significant meeting was taking place on the other side of the world.
Relieving Libya’s AgonyMADRID – Over the last decade, Libya has become a failed state, descending from its own Arab Spring into the coldest of winters.
If the window closes without the warring parties reaching a peace deal, Yemen risks descending into further chaos and conflict, raising the specter of a continuing catastrophe on the strategic Bab el-Mandab Strait.
He also benefited from his P.T. Barnum-like showman’s instincts; the image of Trump and his wife descending a golden escalator in 2015 is indelible.
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