What is "shrinks"

Usage examples of "shrinks".

As the radius of the circular dimension shrinks to the Planck length and, in the mold of general relativity, continues to shrink to yet smaller lengths, string theory insists upon a radical reinterpretation of what actually happens.

In reverse, the fabric of space shrinks, bringing all galaxies closer and closer to each other.

Toward this end, we imagine that the circular dimension of the Garden-hose universe starts out nice and plump but then shrinks to shorter and shorter size, approaching the form of Lineland—a simplified, partial version of the big crunch.

As it shrinks, these unwound modes get heavier and the winding modes get lighter.

As it does so, the distance from the center of the hole to the event horizon slowly shrinks, and as this shroud recedes, regions of space that were previously cut off re-enter the cosmic arena.

As we run the clock backward and the radius of each of these circles shrinks, the temperature of the universe increases.

The shrinks believe-as do the FBI Profilers-that he watches every move she makes, memorizes every expression on her face, possibly even films her.

I don't want to worry that he might be committed to an institution, then fool the shrinks and be let loose.

If he doesn't die, he'll prove he's mad, which he is, and if he gets a liberal judge and easy shrinks then he could be pronounced cured and let out to do it all again in another seven years and then he-You pulled that knife out of me.

Then she pictured him with Russell Bent of Chicago, both of them playing cards in the rec room of the state mental institution, both of them smiling at each other, joking about the idiot liberal judges and dumb-ass shrinks who believed they weren't responsible for their savagery because they'd had bad childhoods.

I think I'll call the shrinks at San Quentin and see what they have to say about it.

So no shock if the last week came down to a quick jaunt to Vegas, Puerto Vallarta, even Europe—money shrinks the world.

Meanwhile, Abbot's got a comfy bed in the jail ward at County,and the shrinks say it'll be a few days before they can even try to get an accurate picture of his mental status.

He shrinks back as far as he can go in the cramped bag, but she backs up against him, sapping heat from him, hair in his face, smelling both exotic and somehow familiar as coffee.

Damn near all the colonists were exactly the sort of people the shrinks wanted them to be.