Crossword-Solution: DEFLATING 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The task of deflating these controversies, and reducing them to a point where they can be reported as news, is not a task which the reporter can perform.

Darrow has been whimsically deflating the illusions in which man hides from the purposelessness of the cosmos.

They moved with equal ease in either direction, and they appeared to rise or fall by inflating or deflating the middle portions of their bodies, somewhat as fish do with their swimming bladders.

The sack of the town had begun at once, from within, even before chunks of asteroid material, man-accelerated and--aimed, had begun to splatter blossoms of incandescence into the confusion of deflating domes and dying inhabitants.

Even though they fleeted by incessantly, they were like pop-ups from a children's book; and for a few additional seconds he began to withdraw into a self that was deflating surreally into a diminutive and flattened form in an imagined land of stationary pop-ups where the unreal was still and preserved instead of the seemingly real, which was always wide-open and fleeting.