deflating

Updated: May 19, 2025

Darrow has been whimsically deflating the illusions in which man hides from the purposelessness of the cosmos. God, heaven, politics, philosophies, ambition, love Mr. Darrow has deflated them time and again charging from $1 to $2 a seat for the spectacle. This is nothing against Mr. Darrow that he charges money sometimes. For years and years Mr.

Ben Hecht - A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

Then the sweep of the torrent that foamed down to the American Fall caught her, and in another minute the immense mass of deflating wreckage, with flames spurting out in three new places, had crashed against the bridge that joined Goat Island and Niagara city, and forced a long arm, as it were, in a heaving tangle under the central span.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The War in the Air