In his review, Ben Brantley of The New York Times described the Irish actor's performance as "a harrowing act of self-administered surgery, etched in escalating degrees of pain".
Mr. Byrne's long third-act monologue, its shifts in mood exquisitely set off by Pat Collins's lighting, is a harrowing act of self-administered surgery, etched in escalating degrees of pain.
"Things escalated to degrees where something had to be done either way," Jason Varitek, the Red Sox captain, told The Boston Herald.
We show here, using a combination of experimental data and a general stochastic model, that the degree of phenotypic variation, thus evolvability, escalates with the degree of overall growth suppression.
Since then, Assad has been sly about escalating his savagery by degrees — artillery, then aerial bombardment, then Scud missiles and now, apparently, chemical weapons — while staying just below whatever threshold of horror might shame us into responding.
With the escalating cost of a college degree, many students are turning to community college as a more affordable way to earn a degree.
With these weapons, he said, "the war on terrorism is escalated to a degree commensurate with the threat posed by terrorism".
The disparity between have and have nots has escalated to a degree that earlier generations of Americans after the Civil War would not have tolerated.
That said, I cannot help but be horrified that in a matter of seconds this incident escalated to the degree that it did.
"Those of us that are armed, we have a responsibility to keep that new assault from taking our weapon, because if the assault escalates to that degree, certainly the fist can go into a deadly situation if they get a hold of the gun-bearer's gun," he said.
