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[ adverb ] in a gradual manner
Synonyms Examples "the snake moved gradually toward its victim" Used in print (Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)Gradually he withdrew from the shop altogether , and for the past thirty years , he has worked independently as a painter , except for his continued hunting and fishing expeditions . Gradually watercolor claimed his greater affection until today it has become his major , if not exclusive , technique . What I have observed time_and_time_again is a process of integration , integration that begins as abstract design and gradually takes_on recognizable form ; color patterns that are made to weave throughout the whole composition ; and that over_all , amazing control of large washes which is the Mason stylemark . (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)Sometimes it is not a verbal stereotype - a `` How are you now '' ? or an `` I want to go_home '' , or whatever - but a nonverbal one which reveals itself , gradually , as the condensed expression of more than one latent meaning . (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)The change was not quite so dramatic as it sounds because in_fact common norms continued to be invoked by municipal courts and were only gradually changed by legislation , and then largely in marginal situations . |
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