The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill. |
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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. |
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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. |
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In particular, she leaves a fainter impression than a bluejay on freshly fallen snow. |
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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. |
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But the gegenschein is very faint, a few magnitudes fainter than the Milky Way. |
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I am a big fainter when it comes to getting blood taken from me, so this was just ick ick ick. |
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Lunar rainbows, cloudbows and fogbows are similar to rainbows but are generally much fainter. |
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In some cases, light is reflected twice by each rain drop, forming a larger, fainter secondary rainbow outside the primary rainbow. |
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When Mr Rabin was assassinated, Mr Netanyahu established further colonies, and hopes of peace grew fainter. |
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Auxiliary agents incorporated in the different tablet or capsule formulations might cause some fainter spots emerging near or on the origin line. |
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A larger negative value makes the color fainter, and a larger positive value makes the color more intense. |
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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. |
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While the borders that divide the Kurds grow fainter, the boundaries of Rojava grow more embedded by the day. |
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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. |
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The Moon lights up too much of the sky when it is gibbous, quarter or full, preventing us from seeing fainter stellar objects. |
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Behind me I hear applause which gets fainter as our sampan moves noiselessly and seemingly effortlessly away from the landing-stage. |
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It is a million times fainter than the photosphere and extends millions of kilometres into space, all the way to Pluto! |
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Certain rare stars, known as Cepheids, grow brighter and fainter at a regular rate. |
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The pounding of boots on cobblestones grew fainter and fainter. |
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A potato mask effectively improves the skin texture, lightens wrinkles, makes them fainter, and tightens your skin. |
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The answer is the bigger the lens or mirror, the more light we collect, and the fainter things we can see. |
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The brightness is about the same, but since the light is averaged over a bigger object, it looks fainter. |
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The keen wind still carried the howling of the dogs, though this grew fainter as we went on our way. |
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The answer is that to see fainter objects, we need to collect more light, much more light. |
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However, while looking for it you will see brilliant Venus and possibly Mercury, which is a lot fainter. |
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If you look at this star with a small telescope, you'll see that Polaris is really a double star, with a fainter, pale blue partner orbiting it. |
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A pair of binoculars or a telescope will show us colours of much fainter stars. |
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Note that the larger telescope can see fainter stars and hence more stars appear in the telescopes field of view. |
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That makes it appear about six times brighter than Pluto, but still far fainter than any star we can see with the unaided eye. |
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The younger, older, and more sensitive you are, the fainter your fingerprints, Lightflower told me in an interview. |
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His voice was becoming fainter and his breath more stertorous. |
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There is another way to reach fainter objects. |
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Astronomers did, however, realize that by leaving the shutter open for lengthy periods of time, film could record fainter details than were observable with the eye. |
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Altair corrects atmospheric turbulence to take the twinkle out of star light, producing sharper images, allowing astronomers to see tinier, fainter and more crowded objects than ever before. |
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A galaxy similar to the Andromeda one, but 10 billion light years away, would appear about 16 million times fainter than the Andromeda Galaxy looks to us. |
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Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. |
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The longer hind legs and fainter colouration of the agile frog are the main features that distinguish the two species. |
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The use of the soft pedal in the A minor Partita seemed a conscious aping of harpsichordists reaching up to a higher, fainter keyboard on their instruments. |
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The resulting radio-telescope system will be roughly ten times more capable as a scientific instrument, allowing astronomers to observe fainter and more-distant objects. |
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Mars is getting fainter as we move further away. |
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Venus shines brightly above it, and fainter Saturn above that. |
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The two remaining fans exhibited similar, but fainter, marks. |
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Surrounding the first area with the second produces a visual illusion in people without schizophrenia, who think the first image is fainter than it actually is. |
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This might be startling if you lived in the city, but in Normandy it's all we ever hear: a constant din of chirps and whistles that may grow fainter at certain times of year but never goes away. |
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But more than that, trying to get the lines right, making some fainter than others, forcing some to be more deliberate and exact, and not putting in too many lines, seemed to complete something for him. |
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Straight ahead, Bayezit Tower gradually grows fainter in the ashen light. |
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A good star chart showing stars to magnitude 7 or fainter will help you spot the interlopers. |
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Such estimates can be used to extend the visual light curves, and hence derive more accurate absolute magnitudes, and to derive equivalent parameters for fainter comets. |
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