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• Players have to press them and make their moves before the colors fade to black again.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
• The fade to black will make the viewer watching today feel insane.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 July 2022
• Back in 1814, no one could have predicted that the Porter sisters’ fame was about to begin its slow fade to black.
  — Devoney Looser, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
• Gunfire continues to rattle in the distance during the fade to black.
  — Reid McCarter, Wired, 10 Apr. 2021
• After a fade to black, Nik is then shown in the next scene, alive but handcuffed to a hospital bed, inside Schwarzau Prison in Austria.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 16 June 2023
• The singers later hit a series of solo dance moves of their own and participate in a standoff before the lights fade to black.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2023
• Scenes fade to black in a dramatic fashion even though nothing intense has happened.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Scenes fade to black in a dramatic fashion even though nothing intense has happened.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Elegantly edited in segments that fade to black as the ice thaws between the siblings, there’s an air of timelessness.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
• The Sala Grande Theatre, which has done half-capacity seating for the last two years due to a pandemic that simply refuses to fade to black, once again played host to a packed crowd.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 31 Aug. 2022
• But omicron and a pandemic that stubbornly refuses to fade to black had other plans.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
• Washington has seen a number of popular restaurants fade to black during the pandemic.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• The director even seems to be toying with the viewer’s patience here, with each scene ending on an almost excruciatingly long fade to black.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
• Without a clear cultural conscience and serious financial support coming from our federal government, so much of the arts, culture, entertainment and screens industries are looking at a short, grey future before a quick fade to black.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Aug 2024