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The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill.
Behind me, Drew's car sputtered down the street, the sound getting fainter and fainter as he took a corner and drove off into the night.
She saw him turn to a Lord near him, his Irish brogue fainter than it had been years before due to years of tutoring under English professors.
In particular, she leaves a fainter impression than a bluejay on freshly fallen snow.
If you flip it to level 2, all it does is put into a slightly fainter form, those letters that are silent, which is quite a handy little guide.
But the gegenschein is very faint, a few magnitudes fainter than the Milky Way.
I am a big fainter when it comes to getting blood taken from me, so this was just ick ick ick.
Lunar rainbows, cloudbows and fogbows are similar to rainbows but are generally much fainter.
In some cases, light is reflected twice by each rain drop, forming a larger, fainter secondary rainbow outside the primary rainbow.
When Mr Rabin was assassinated, Mr Netanyahu established further colonies, and hopes of peace grew fainter.
Auxiliary agents incorporated in the different tablet or capsule formulations might cause some fainter spots emerging near or on the origin line.
A larger negative value makes the color fainter, and a larger positive value makes the color more intense.
Typically the corona is a million times fainter than the solar surface, which is why it cannot be seen except when the photosphere is mostly extinguished.
While the borders that divide the Kurds grow fainter, the boundaries of Rojava grow more embedded by the day.
The killers must have been confident that, as time passed, the story would only grow fainter, and the facts of the crime would be forgotten.
The Moon lights up too much of the sky when it is gibbous, quarter or full, preventing us from seeing fainter stellar objects.
Behind me I hear applause which gets fainter as our sampan moves noiselessly and seemingly effortlessly away from the landing-stage.
It is a million times fainter than the photosphere and extends millions of kilometres into space, all the way to Pluto!
Certain rare stars, known as Cepheids, grow brighter and fainter at a regular rate.
The pounding of boots on cobblestones grew fainter and fainter.
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The skin was like a rose, a fainter, pinker rose than Dorcas had ever seen.
Its grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs.
At first there was a disposition to interrupt, to heckle, but it grew fainter and soon gave way to complete silence.
The previous sensation, that it was improbable he would die, was fainter now.
Several investigations tend to show that the fainter the stars are, the greater is the declination of the solar apex.
The penumbra will last quite a long time yet, but it will gradually get fainter and fainter.
We cannot see stars fainter than the sixth magnitude with the naked eye.
Had I been wearier and fainter, it would have appeared less dreadful.
Now it grew louder, fainter now, and now it altogether died away.
Another little sigh, fainter than before, followed, and all was still.
The sound of her lover's footsteps grew fainter and fainter.
It was a fainter voice now, and the color was going up her cheeks.
A chorus from Olivette, sung in her clear contralto, grew fainter and fainter until it ended in the slam of a distant door.
Sigismondo has left even fainter traces than Il turco in Italia.
The tracks of the Selfridge party grew fainter after a night of rain.
With that the noises grew fainter and fainter, till at last they ceased altogether.
Presently Sir Algernon ceased to kick, his struggles grew fainter.
But his voice had grown fainter and wearier with every answer, and now there was no answer at all.
Other, though fainter, sounds than these contributed to my restlessness.
Then the howl of a far-off dog rose on the night air, and was answered by a fainter howl from a remoter distance.
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