Word: vanishingly
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...must change. She came up the hard way. Her childhood will shortly be folklore: her father disappeared from Dnepropetrovsk when she was two; her mother died at 36 of cancer when Oksana was 13, leaving the child without blood relations to turn to. Her coach was the next to vanish -- emigrating to Canada to seek a better future than struggling Ukraine could offer. It was then that Zmievskaya took over...
...accuse one another of wrong-doing: each refutes the other's very right to existence. Early in the first act, Martha says to George, "I can't even see you...I haven't even been able to see you for years." Later, George dismisses Martha, willing her to "Vanish. Vanish...
...Rent" sign in the window is any indication, the Boathouse Bar may vanish from the Square's list of longtime taverns...
...less momentous assessment: "A prodigious moment this handshake, soberly, none too warmly exchanged between Rabin and Arafat, as if they were crushed by the terrible responsibility that their historic gesture condemned them to share." This is the stuff of modern diplomatic power. It is impulsive and ephemeral and can vanish with the morning mist, but it plants in the minds of millions of people a solemn promise, making it harder for leaders to go on defying logic and decency...
...oiled promo machines, with Pavarotti's the more unbridled. His white handkerchief is as familiar as Michael Jackson's glove. But as Beverly Sills, an acute observer of the opera scene, says, "Forget the hype. Once they get out there, they have to produce, or the hype will just vanish...