Michael Tolkin

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

American Writer

Mark McKinnon

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

American Businessman

Jennifer A. Nielsen

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

American Author

Douglas Hyde

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

Irish Politician

Ben Barnes

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

English Actor

Octavia Spencer

My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.

American Actress

Jeetendra

I really appreciate her passion for work, which has not waned over the years. Ekta works as if it is the first day of her struggle.

Indian Actor

Gary Hamel

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

Evelyn Waugh

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

English Author

Elayne Boosler

American Comedian

Used to describe processes or events gradually losing significance or intensity over time.

Temporal Decline

Often describes changes in human feelings or interest levels.

Subjective Perception

Used with abstract concepts like power or influence, not just physical objects.

Intangible Aspects

Commonly refers to the diminishing of feelings or internal states.

Emotional States

Implies a gradual reduction in size, strength, or presence.

Physical Reduction

Refers to a noticeable decrease in some quality or influence.

Observable Change

Highlights a slow, often imperceptible decline rather than a sudden drop.

Gradual Process

Specific to the lunar cycle, describes the moon's decreasing visibility.

Astronomical Cycle

Refers to the observable narrowing of the moon's illuminated part.

Visual Change

 British technicians waving their gold Oscars on the wane and all kinds of excitements that so I suppose for child it was my Dickensian wonder worlds every every child finds his own amusement park really added the world around him and that was it and then when I arrived at the other end and this really induced

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 one of the concerns many activists have been expressing is that the energy behind the Black Lives Matter movement has to stay high for anti-racist change to truly take place. I think that applies to what you just said as well. And I guess I'm curious what your opinion is on when the protests start to wane

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 They don't really do well together. Erotic couples also understand that passion waxes and wanes. It's pretty much like the moon. It has intermittent eclipses. But what they know is they know how to resurrect it. They know how to bring it back. And they know how to bring it back

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 to minuscule animals smaller than a millimeter. How do so many species thrive in this underwater world? Over the decades, intrepid scientists have ventured there to find out. Traveling down through the water column, pressure increases and light begins to wane.

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 retreating back perhaps signaling one of these collapse events might be happening ultimately will wane on what we want to do is be able to use the sound to understand and listen for these invisible processes that are telling us that our cause

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 The only abrupt worldwide change would have been major asteroid impacts or volcanic super-eruptions. Apart from those brief traumas, nothing happens suddenly. The continental landmasses drifted around. Ice cover waxed and waned.

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 not just in the annals of economic statistics but also in the meaning of life and how lives are lived. Economic growth matters powerfully for the individual. If growth wanes, the risk to human progress

Economic growth has...

 And you might have noticed, but motivation isn't something that we can always muster on command. Whether we like it or not, motivation comes and motivation goes. When motivation wanes,

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 have no choice the dramas that play out here are a savage reminder of how important water is for all life on these Plains as the heat of the day wanes animals become more active

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 As the heat of the day wanes, animals become more active.

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