Colour Wheel Exhibition of Pat Steir Paintings at the Hirsghorn Museum  and Sculpture Garden, Washington D. C. 2019. Above is the most telling of n-grams I have ever seen, for it appears (remembering of course that n-grams provide neither valid nor reliable evidence for any hypothesis in scientific terms) that the usage of the word … More The word ‘Dissolve’ might aid those who find the things of the world they inhabit too resistant and too ‘solid’, but it is a word that in this helpful usage seems itself to be fading away.