And, gradually, something becomes clear: a kind of radiant indifference to words, mistaken or correct.
There's a bit of a depressing vacuum until somehow, gradually, something new emerges.
You know how sometimes you're confronted with a situation you initially think is uninteresting and repulsive, and gradually something sinks in, that it's kind of cool.
The operative word, however, is "gradually": something that brings the United States trade deficit down over four or five years isn't good enough when unemployment is at disastrous levels right now.
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" begins as a formidably achieved historical novel but gradually turns into something out of Japanese anime, complete with a shadowy nunnery and an evil abbot, bent on grooming young girls as sex slaves.
The movie starts out drenched in cynicism and nihilism, but gradually moves towards something else: not exactly love or good fellowship, but a feeling that the continuous paranoid suspicion needed for survival at all costs may not be worth it.
But gradually it has become something else -- a mystery.
But gradually it appears that something is not right with Marlene.
When we started, I wanted to do a series of photos of her as a 1950s pin-up but gradually it turned into something else.
You can hear it in Cocos, which starts with a pretty desolate piano figure, but gradually changes its disposition to something strangely uplifting over the course of six minutes, or Majestaet, which takes a curious emotional path from haunted to triumphant and back again.
