The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
There is an increasing risk that Microsoft might atrophy on the PC platform as IBM did on the mainframe platform, while robust growth shifts to hand-held and wireless devices,
Our results suggest that meditation can produce experience-based structural alterations in the brain. We also found evidence that meditation may slow down the aging-related atrophy of certain areas of the brain.
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
When people become lonely and isolated, whatever social skills they have tend to atrophy from misuse.
It's a horrible, horrible disease. What happens is all your muscles in your whole body atrophy down to nothing.
Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.
ability atrophies through lack of exercise.
The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.