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By the climax, at which all right-thinking viewers will have dissolved in a puddle of warm appreciation, the new Pixar film has earned two cheers and a big bear hug.

From Time • Jun. 21, 2012

The chiaro-oscuro will have gone from life; the moral landscape, whose beauty and grandeur is at present so much extolled, will have dissolved like an insubstantial pageant.

From Is Life Worth Living? by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)

In a month or more almost all will have dissolved into fragments and fallen to earth—their mission accomplished.

From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by Beebe, William

Sooner or later it will have dissolved into the 'formless mist' of protyle and 'the hour hand of eternity will have completed one revolution.'

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich

In a few seconds the small particles of the substance will have dissolved, and the bead will be seen to have assumed the color characteristic of the substance.

From The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis by Getman, Frederick Hutton