How To Use Vanishing In A Sentence

This vanishing reflects both the culture's increasing intolerance of sentimentalism and mainstream comics' marginalizing of women readers.
Vanishing, with a quick flirt of gingham apron-strings, she reappeared in considerably less than a "trice" as a fluffy Strictly business: more stories of the four million
He pictured the dim room with the revolving spheres, and the orb in the centre, its many facets coruscating with vanishing light. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.
In a world of shifting boundaries, vanishing borders, and proliferating frontiers, security is even more difficult to achieve.

The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice". Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
They expressed worry about the district's current budget crisis and its vanishing middle-class work force.
Nuclear power produces abundant power from small amounts of material, at small external costs, even when one accounts for the vanishingly small probability of accidents and the cost of waste disposal.
But an overcast day could take the edge off the vanishing act. Times, Sunday Times
He had enacted the adventure of vanishing into thin air and being reborn, phoenixlike, as someone else - literally, a self-made man. Recortes
Those compounds should be abundant on a planet, but pure oxygen, whether monatomic or molecular, should be vanishingly scarce - as it is, in fact, on Mars and Venus.
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The highway stretched out ahead of me until it narrowed to a vanishing point some miles away.
The second sandwolf peered from the side of the quarasote, then turned, and bounded to a second clump of quarasote, before vanishing into a gully so small that Wendra could barely make it out. Darkness
Trade unions do and they are disappearing to vanishing point for their trouble. Times, Sunday Times
Last week, on Wednesday, April 28, researcher Hector Picco remarked that he had seen a small white light coming from the sierras and vanishing into the rocky floor of an empty piece of property adjacent to his home.
The mimeoed version kept vanishing from the Nuffield library, so at least it was being read, or looked at. James A. Mirrlees - Autobiography
The possibility of a favourable outcome to such an enterprise reaches the vanishing point.
A few survivors, precariously perched on sill-less windows, survey their double bind looking for perspective and vanishing points, a place to tip themselves over the edge in hopes defatigable winging. Kamikaze Birdsongs
The number of divas who can hit the f6 in Mozart's Queen of the Night is vanishingly small, and you just can't perform The Queen of the Night without that famous f6.
The chances of dying under anaesthetic are vanishingly small.
There's an interesting thread at The Peking Duck that takes off from an article about "vanishing dialects and greater adoption of putonghua" and turns into a discussion of whether there is in fact a unified writing system in China. Languagehat.com: CHINESE "DIALECTS" AND WRITING.
I think the evidence for that is vanishingly small.
The image of beer belly, scruffy jeans and T-shirt is vanishing as one in eight delivery drivers dons a shirt and tie for work. The Sun
The result has been a programme of increasingly spectacular vanishing acts. Times, Sunday Times
A peacherino like Helen Trick up and vanishing, well . . . that might be just about anything. Giving SATAN SLEUTH the Gong
Cheap rural housing is vanishing in the south of the country.
He also defined the vanishing line to a given plane, not parallel to the plane of the picture, as the intersection of the plane through the eye parallel to the given plane.
My hopes of ever achieving the dreams of my youth - career, family, home - are vanishingly small.
I drove down the long, tree-lined drive, the main road vanishing behind me.
They were to give war the kind of precision that would lower civilian deaths to the vanishing point and, as the neocons of the Bush administration would claim in the next decade, free the U.S. military to "decapitate" any regime we loathed. Tom Engelhardt: Why Military Dreams Fail -- and Why It Doesn't Matter
He'd endured more than a week without her; his stock of patience was stretched vanishingly thin. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
The picture showed a lady sitting there upright, bedizened in a fur hat and fur boa, with her entire forearm vanishing inside a heavy fur muff that she held out toward the viewer. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
They just did not like the idea of dying and simply vanishing. Times, Sunday Times
Had they determined to study the subject of life, as we have done, from the Bible as well as from nature, they would have commenced at these toad-producing rocks, and worked their way upward to the source of all life, and not downward to the vanishing point -- that where animal life ceases in the azoic rocks. Life: Its True Genesis
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The reason we have perspective with a vanishing point is that it came from optics. Times, Sunday Times
It is always possible, even in free fall, to obtain non-vanishing metric connections by choosing Gaussian rather than Cartesian coordinates.
There may be other life forms out there in the universe, and possibly even in this galaxy, but the chances of us finding them or even of us knowing what they are if we tripped over them, seem vanishingly small to me.
'Appen we're nearer the Fleet, anyroad, an' they ain't too curious there," she replied, and stood up, the pamphlets vanishing somewhere inside her shawls. The Serpent's Shadow
The reason we have perspective with a vanishing point is that it came from optics. Times, Sunday Times
This six-point perspective, with the six vertices of an octahedron serving as the vanishing points, becomes the basis of his spherical paintings.
The normal early morning gun was sending its normal shell at intervals ranging up the long valley -- _rattle, rattle, rattle_, until the echo died away up the slopes, like that of a vanishing railway train, or the long-drawn bark of a dog. Letters from France
Danny's few friends include talented thief Les, the ditzy and occasionally vanishing Dixie, and Vandra, a vampiric "physick" who heals using her teeth. Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News
With conflicting forensic evidence, the Crown's case was bolstered by an eminent paediatrician testifying that the chances of two cot deaths happening in this family was a vanishingly small 1 in 73 million.
Cheap rural housing is vanishing in the south of the country.
In Vanishing Point, a man known only as Kowalski gets hepped up on goofballs and bets that he can drive a white Dodge Challenger muscle car from Denver to San Francisco in approximately 15 hours.
I paused before closing the drapes, watching the last of the sun vanishing beyond the silhouette of treetops in the west: a darkening sky, the underbellies of high wind-streaked clouds painted sienna and salmon by the setting sun.
To the left the beach runs round to a low cliff, sweeping back to the right and vanishing into blue haze. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
The US corporate owners won't be needed, and their firms will gradually find their sales drying up, their market share vanishing, and their stock tanking.
His vision was riveted to one vanishing point on a particular horizon, and that was the story of avant-garde art.
This was another case of three points vanishing. The Sun
Gregory smiled, the traces of sadness slowly vanishing.
The vast majority of psychiatric patients are responsible for their behaviour, both morally and legally, as shown by the vanishingly small numbers of individuals ever found not guilty by reason of insanity in court.
Lines of black text emerged from the bottom of the screen and scrolled up and away toward a vanishing point somewhere near the top.
Outside (certain parts of) science, vanishingly few deep thinkers win a Nobel Prize.
AR, Kiddoo D, Kolon TF, Canning DA: The neonatal vanishing kidney: Congenital and vascular etiologies. Publications of the Urology Division
The irregular appearance and vanishing of these small parties of horsemen, as well as the confusion occasioned by those who endeavoured, though generally without effect, to press to the front through the crowd of Highlanders, maugre their curses, oaths, and opposition, added to the picturesque wildness what it took from the military regularity of the scene. Waverley
It would need a gigantic and vanishingly improbable leap across genetic hyperspace.
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It seemed to me that when he had soared up towards the ever vanishing Ideal, he reached a point whereat he turned in disgust and hurled himself madly back to the dungiest part of this dungy earth. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
These tribesmen are proud survivors of a vanishing world.
Before vanishing in 1822, he left coded instructions detailing the secret location of a fortune in gold.
To the left the beach runs round to a low cliff, sweeping back to the right and vanishing into blue haze. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
The result has been a programme of increasingly spectacular vanishing acts. Times, Sunday Times
Colors tend to be exquisite, but in an unusual way, at once vivid and fading, as if a still-potent splendor were half-vanishing before one's eyes, introducing a vaguely mournful, even elegiac tone.
A MISSING property mogul has been found starving and barefoot on a country road eight months after vanishing. The Sun
Nik explains that you can stop roll-over pop-up things vanishing after a few seconds, by continually moving your mouse from side to side within the link text.
Kavanagh, making for a point where he last saw the end of a bernouse vanishing, wandered further than the others, perhaps, and came suddenly on a hole in the side of the rock. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
That we be not corrupted with the unsatiate desire of vanishing earthly treasure; A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
Even charismatic American wildlife such as the Florida panther, now with only 60 adults remaining in the wild, are in real danger of vanishing forever unless we act.
They rise slowly upwards before vanishing into thin air as mysteriously as they first appeared. Times, Sunday Times
Then inexplicability strikes anew—electrical outages, dogs fleeing town, cars levitating violently, auto parts and other hunks of steel vanishing, as if sucked up by some invisible Iron Giant. 'Super 8': Old Format, Fresh Thrills
She knows this problem well and has even created lighter cozies to prevent her lighters from vanishing.
‘Vanishing Point’ thrusts Technique into overdrive, with its epic production and searching lyrics - this is prog rock crossed with synth-pop.
According to the principles of geometric perspective, parallel lines appear to converge at a single point in space, known as the vanishing point, as they recede from the viewer.
While displaying nostalgia for a vanishing rural and small-town America, their work also adeptly propagandized for the New Deal.
By 1973, this gap had narrowed almost to vanishing point.
They expressed worry about the district's current budget crisis and its vanishing middle-class work force.
Compared to the thousands of new books published each year, and hundreds of thousands more already in or out of print, 52 seems like a vanishingly small number.
In British Columbia, ancient forests are vanishing at the rate of one acre every 70 seconds, or 418,000 acres per year.
With serious cases of lead poisoning becoming vanishingly rare, however, such lawsuits have dried up.
Git away wid ye, spalpeen!" cries he, and stood waving as the train pulled out, a little black figure vanishing into the hissing steam. THE NUMBERS
The stopband zero suppression is a stricter design constraint than the vanishing moments, and can more effectively manipulate the stopband characteristics of filters.
They speed down one narrow side street, turn abruptly, then hurtle down another, but these maneuvers are not enough for them to elude her pursuers; she can see their headlights in the side-view mirrors, vanishing as they round a corner, only to reappear a split second later. William and Kate
What the vanishing bees are telling us is the same thing the vanishing field birds are telling us~ we are at a critical ecologicalthresholdin our evolution and unless we take dramatic steps to change our life threatening habits&excesses and, instead, embrace ourinterconnection with nature~ theecosystem will collapse and the human being as a species willeventuallygo the way of the vanishing bees. WHAT THE VANISHING BEES ARE TELLING US
This was another case of three points vanishing. The Sun
He concluded that the chances the documents were written in 1972 are ‘so vanishingly small as to be indistinguishable from zero.’
Consequently, the fundamental objective to create a classless society has already been vanishing.
There will be no hot afternoons where I'm pounded brown by the Aztec sun, the cool beer vanishing into my body like a drop of rain in the trackless Sahara.
English colonizers represented inferior Indians as vanishing from the American landscape while naturalizing themselves as the true ‘Americans.’
The errors and superstitions of other days are vanishing before the influence of cause and effect; and mankind generally can never again be led away by the bewilderments of superstition or of priestcraft.
There are acidified oceans, melting polar ice, oceanic dead zones, dying coral reefs, vanishing species, on and on, all of which are due in some measure to the downside of science and technology. Dr. Larry Dossey: Do We Live in a Meaningful Universe?
Before vanishing altogether, the woman warrior becomes a hideous virago in prints and paintings in France and abroad.
But an overcast day could take the edge off the vanishing act. Times, Sunday Times
The true antecedent of the modern vanishing point is Guidobaldo's punctum concursus (point of concurrence).
Trade unions do and they are disappearing to vanishing point for their trouble. Times, Sunday Times
A new name, sarcopenia or vanishing flesh has been applied to Maude's illness.
She inveigles herself into their lives and seduces or enraptures each of them before vanishing.
'One of the actresses at the theatre,' John replied, with a concoctive look at the vanishing forms of Mr. and Mrs. Loveday. The Trumpet-Major
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe opens with a horrifyingly poetic description of a monkfish as the “Quasimodo of the Atlantic” whose “uncooked flesh, especially the liver can be virtually ambulant with marine worms”. BOTTOMFEEDER: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood | Impact Lab
My first impression is this: vanishingly few people are objective about the election.
‘What me and Mr Romanov speak about has nothing to do with you,’ said Rix when this was mentioned, his wearing chirpiness vanishing at the hint of being asked something demanding.
As Scoones agrees, a vital component of their success has been the sense of awe they inspire, which is a vanishingly rare commodity in the secular, postmodern world.
The result has been a programme of increasingly spectacular vanishing acts. Times, Sunday Times
Many Californians view the mountain lion as an emblem of the state's vanishing wilderness.
He provided evocations, picture-postcard memories of a vanishing, or already vanished, urban order.
To the left the beach runs round to a low cliff, sweeping back to the right and vanishing into blue haze. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
AIDS * leprosy * malaria * Adult-onset vanishing white matter leukoencephalopathy * Late-onset metachromatic leukodystrophy * Cerebral WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight
`One should not worry unduly," he said, `for space is large, and the chances of such a collision are vanishingly small. ANTI-ICE
The word eclipse comes from the Greek for "abandonment," and captures the sense of foreboding the sun's vanishing act inspired even in civilizations whose astronomers had figured out why and when the darkness would fall. Mysteries Of The Sun
After that steep climb my strength reached vanishing point.
Paid bloggers are a vanishingly small percentage of the entire blogging population, and will almost certainly continue to be so.
Human may define a geological period in the way dinosaurs -- and their vanishing act -- helped mark the Jurassic.
a kind of supernal visitant, vanishing anon into nothingness, or only a pawnbroker's duplicate. The Lovels of Arden
Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.
Schmiedeler, O.S.B., Director of the Catholic Rural Life Bureau of the N.C.W.C., this increased tenantry brings with it physical “erosion” of the farms, which are not cared for by those who do not own them; and social “erosion,” in the shape of irresponsible drifters; “vanishing liberty, since renters, like wage-earners, are not the free people that owners are.” Farm Ownership Linked With Trades Unions
Afterwards the woman left quickly as the credits rolled, vanishing out into the street.
Natural prey is vanishing in the dwindling forests, resulting in leopards hunting cattle and people for food.
They rise slowly upwards before vanishing into thin air as mysteriously as they first appeared. Times, Sunday Times
This means that all the trappings of the new state - the official titles, ministries and institutions - are just paper fictions, in danger of vanishing at any moment.
The bluish region had now resolved itself into what appeared to be a tunnel, vanishing to infinity in the distance.
Ten years ago, misuse of rifles of any sort, especially of our type was vanishingly small.
Certainly, in almost every Michael Chabon fiction, there is this vanishing — subtractions, desolations, and abandonments; sinister design and rotten luck. Meshuga Alaska
The highway stretched out ahead of me until it narrowed to a vanishing point some miles away.
It is time to go," Worsel announced, curling out one extensile eye toward the vanishing orb. Galactic Patrol
They just did not like the idea of dying and simply vanishing. Times, Sunday Times
a vanishing minimum; and, but for this recent 'garboil' (as our old writers put it) we might have said that, under differences of nomenclature, all the Kirks are united at last, in the only union worth having, that of peace and goodwill. Historical Mysteries
The reason we have perspective with a vanishing point is that it came from optics. Times, Sunday Times
The first, the leaden echo, asks how beauty can be kept from vanishing away. Times, Sunday Times
Then with radius V2T describe arc from centre V2 till it cuts the horizon in M2, which is the measuring point for all vanishing lines drawn to V2. The Theory and Practice of Perspective
The former limit is reached in anguish, madness, or the agony of death, when the accidental flux of things in contradiction has reached its maximum or vanishing point, so that the contradiction and the flux themselves disappear by diremption. The Life of Reason
First he called invitingly while I held my breath, and then he commanded as he scratched for lost crumbs in the white dust of the Riverfield ribbon, but the foolish creatures only huddled and squeaked, and at a few cautious steps I took in their direction, they showed a decided threat of vanishing forever into the woods. The Golden Bird
These people pop up mysteriously and deliver enigmatic messages before vanishing again.
The number of people moving from high tech developed areas to the low tech outback is vanishingly small compared to the numbers migrating to the city and developed world. Happiness Police, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
This," -- according to that respectable authority, "seems to imply the reality of the business, those ascititious particles which he held together in his sensible shape being loosened at the vanishing, and so offending the nostrils by their floating and diffusing themselves in the open air." [ Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
It strikes me as vanishingly unlikely that most of the seniors ordering from Canada actually could not pay for their drugs any other way.
Evanescent : Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
Many extinct or vanishing Indian languages are the only evidence we have of the long migrations and complex histories of particular peoples.
Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.
No one is sure why the term piazza survives here while vanishing most everywhere else, but Stories: Local News
Cheap rural housing is vanishing in the south of the country.
The first, the leaden echo, asks how beauty can be kept from vanishing away. Times, Sunday Times
Many Californians view the mountain lion as an emblem of the state's vanishing wilderness.
This was another case of three points vanishing. The Sun
They rise slowly upwards before vanishing into thin air as mysteriously as they first appeared. Times, Sunday Times
He said he could not absolutely exclude it as a theoretical possibility, but added: ‘If you look at the population at large, if this happened at all it must be vanishingly rare.’
They just did not like the idea of dying and simply vanishing. Times, Sunday Times
In other words, it seems vanishingly unlikely.
Vanishing into nothingness, he felt his body and soul, breaking apart and ripping.
As it was vanishing on the hill-tops, a group of enthusiasts preferred to forgo arguing and, grasping their spears, were soon busy tracking its spoor on the soft soil in the crevices among the boulders.
The newly discovered precocial breeding could help to keep the species from vanishing, the researchers speculate.
Beneath him seethed and boiled the tumultuous billows, their wreathy tops torn from them, and shot, in long vanishing sheets of spray, over the distracted wilderness. Adela Cathcart, Volume 3
And before Anna could respond, he was off, vanishing into the shrubbery. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
He uncrossed his arms and walked toward the road, vanishing into the darkness. Mercy Kill
However you feel about polar bears not having floating platforms from which to hunt seals, the vanishing ice will shift wind patterns in a way that intensifies midlatitude storms, increasing wintertime precipitation over Western and Southern Europe, but reduces rainfall in the American West. Curbing Emissions Won't Be Enough
Now the wheelwright was a choleric man, and one fine afternoon, returning from a short absence, found Tom occupied with one of his pet adzes, the edge of which was fast vanishing under our hero's care. Tom Brown's Schooldays
The highway stretched out ahead of me until it narrowed to a vanishing point some miles away.
The distance points are spaced equally on either side of the vanishing point.
There are many offences for which any element of stigma is diluted almost to vanishing point, as with speeding on the roads, illegal parking, riding a bicycle without lights, or dropping litter.
All of these have gone nearly to the vanishing point, and the middle class population of all that portion of Europe, whose currency has largely depreciated, is being slowly impoverished, weakened, demoralized, and is becoming a vanishing factor. The European Situation
November 20th, 2009 2: 50 pm ET it seems to me if you are black and a member of congress. "you will be geared for failure" set up for the okey doke ..... while the fbi let folks like palin skate and paul bremmer and the vanishing 9 billion dollars go up in smoke w/o a word. and EVERYONE is mumb about. Senate Ethics Committee admonishes Burris
From nearly 3% in 2000, his share of the national vote evaporated this year to a third of a percentage point, a political presence so vanishingly small that the Democrats are not even bothering this time to blame him for their loss.
These holes, and the gaps left by her quickly vanishing superstructure allowed easy and safe access for divers.
For a while, I thought we should have foreseen it, but the chance of its happening was vanishingly small. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Trade unions do and they are disappearing to vanishing point for their trouble. Times, Sunday Times
But the disease confounded everyone, vanishing in petulant defiance of all the elaborate preparations which had been made to accommodate it.
He has described Truth as a colour so faint as to be scarcely perceptible, and almost evanishing from the vision.
Government after government flaunts its green credentials while the countryside is becoming so poisoned that whole species of wildlife are vanishing.
The comet, tailless and misshapen, appeared as expected in 1839 and 1846, before vanishing, confounding astronomers who waited patiently in 1852, 1859 and 1866.
The carnie is no longer a punchline for a joke but a vanishing breed of vagabond that triggers wanderlust nostalgia, not thoughts of syphilis and criminal misdeeds.
And even this minuscule probability will diminish to the vanishing point as researchers improve nonnuclear interception technologies.
How, then, is it possible to affirm the reality of an invisible, impalpable, incoercible being, ever changing, ever vanishing, impenetrable to thought alone, to which it exhibits only its disguises? System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
When he reached the spot at which he usually turned off by a gap in the hedge to NEEDLE his way through the unpathed wood, he yielded to the impulses of memory and habit, and sought the yew-circle, where for some moments he stood by the dumb, disfeatured stone, which seemed to slumber in the moonlight, a monument slowly vanishing from above a vanished grave. St. George and St. Michael Volume I
A pin at the central vanishing point would have been as useful here as it would for perspective drawings set out mathematically.
This crowd is armed with clubs and swords (Mark and Matthew) or lanterns, torches and weapons (John 18: 3, brilliantly deploying the fear-laden backdrop of darkness, into which John so memorably has Judas vanishing earlier the same evening). Palm Sunday
The first, the leaden echo, asks how beauty can be kept from vanishing away. Times, Sunday Times
As Scoones agrees, a vital component of their success has been the sense of awe they inspire, which is a vanishingly rare commodity in the secular, postmodern world.
And picking up her dainty skirt with one ungloved hand, on which two diamond rings shone like circlets of dew, she nodded, smiled, and went her way -- Innocent standing at the gate and watching her go with a kind of numbed patience as though she saw a figure in a dream vanishing slowly with the dawn of day. Innocent : her fancy and his fact
Players can see right up to the vanishing point where objects are out of range of the human eye.
The vanishing point in painting was a technique used to show perspective in art, i.e., larger objects at the fore with objects getting smaller the further back you go.
Yes, the wilderness is vanishing, and cultures are fading, but what saves them are not dry statistics and doomsday scenarios, but rather the emotional sumptuousness and connection that comes from visitation. Richard Bangs: Naked in Brazil
So it is, right now, with the suddenly vanishing animal kingdom, mostly small, such as fireflies, and bees, and bats, and all sorts of amphibians. Godzilla Stock | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Finally, consider taking advantage of a potentially vanishing opportunity with short term grantor-retained annuity trusts (GRATs). What You Should Do Now
Adyar Creek is one such open space, which is gradually vanishing from the city map.
Earth is a drossy thing in this man's account; earthly greatness and splendors are but like vanishing bubbles in this man's esteem. The Riches of Bunyan
To give a more vivid demonstration of the accuracy of his painting, he bored a small hole in the panel with the baptistery painting at the vanishing point.
The young great green macaw wobbled aerially into a nearby copse of trees, where it disappeared in the dense leaves, green vanishing into green.
She knows this problem well and has even created lighter cozies to prevent her lighters from vanishing.
There can be few children more wanted than an IVF child so the chances of such a child being mistreated in some way by its parents are vanishingly small.
We are training people for a type of work that is vanishing before our eyes.
The Ravingian Mountain Range climbed high into the clouds, its snowcapped peaks vanishing into the mist, the dividing line between land and air impossible to discern. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
Recollect the feature films of the living desert, the vanishing prairie, the rams butting heads and salmon swimming upstream?
The most important result in Guidobaldo's treatise was that any set of parallel lines, not parallel to the plane of the picture, will converge to a vanishing point.
Vanishing Point ran from 1984 to 1986 on the CBC, though it reran under different names after the initial airing until about 1990. Issue 0.034
And we must acknowledge that as there are two kinds of knowledge, so there are two kinds of being corresponding to them; the one uncreated, indestructible, immovable, which is seen by intelligence only; the other created, which is always becoming in place and vanishing out of place, and is apprehended by opinion and sense. Timaeus
The business of the traveller, however, is to tramp on in the sun and the sand, with an eye to the compass and giving no heed to evanishing gleams of fairy lakes and plumelike palms. Quaint Courtships
When the projector was flicked on, the result was sublime: the cone shot out as far as anyone could see, and its vanishing point was invisible.
Using that water would reduce the pressure on the state's vanishing groundwater resources and reduce the need to pay for expensive alternatives, such as desalinated seawater. Azcentral.com | news
The saleswoman enjoys a private smile at the scene before vanishing with his card. THE SAVAGE GIRL

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