descent

The company’s livestream showed the booster firing its engines to slow its descent before its touchdown on the ship.

What we are witnessing is not a descent into chaos, but a controlled assertion of hierarchy.

He then entered the water and began his slow descent.

"You had to respect the fact he was of royal descent," says Larter.

It had once been a whaling village, and the humble buildings retained a rustic charm, though when Watson arrived the rustic quality was on a steep descent toward ruination.