Sentence examples for Gradual unfolding from inspiring English sources

Développé, (French: "developed," or "unfolded"), in ballet, a smooth, gradual unfolding of the leg.

There aren't many moments of gradual unfolding or quiet reflection.

To the extent that I've been granted a spiritual experience, it's been a gradual unfolding.

The gradual unfolding of secrets -- of sexuality, race and family origin -- is more insistent than any particular conflict.

He discovers other pleasures: one of the novel's sweetest is the depiction of the gradual unfolding of Jacob's sexuality.

The performance of the ragas, certainly those played on Saturday night, reflects a gradual unfolding of musical gestures increasing in complexity and excitement to a thrilling climax.

(Who knew that Blythe Duff, she of Taggart, had such a fabulous singing voice?) What was lost in the adaptation was the gradual, careful unfolding in O'Hagan's novel of his central character, Anderton, a middle-aged, middle-class aesthete of a priest placed dangerously out of his natural environment in the failing, post-industrial, grindingly poor town of Dalgarnock.

Darwin used the root word only once in the Origin of Species (the last word of the book is 'evolved'), because in his day 'evolution' denoted the gradual, predetermined unfolding of organismal development (a fiddlehead fern, for example, or the shell of a snail).

17 Key interactions responsible for the maintenance of protein conformation against thermal perturbation can be revealed through examination of the MD simulation trajectory, since we are able to observe gradual thermal unfolding of a protein at the atomic level.

Now a more gradual disaster is unfolding, gnawing at the fabric of life.

So we looked at the Mount Vernon Conference, we looked at the Annapolis Convention, and we — in doing that, we're looking at a gradual process that was unfolding one step at a time with no inevitable outcome.