But I think her true motivation had more to do with aesthetics – using available light to dramatise the subject with the infinite gradations of grey between pure black and white provided the subtlety that was her stock in trade.
"I want them to discuss the different gradations of abuse: when does something become abuse; what should you do.
There is little here about the infinite gradations that divided earls from dukes, elder sons from their brothers, established titles from ones of recent creation and Haileybury from Eton.
The social gradations of that temporary aberration, capitalism, he reckoned, could be handled by differences in things like the layout and finish of each flat.
These gradations might reflect different tastes: brothel workers tend to be younger, more attractive and better educated.
DISCUSSING the European constitution at a recent informal meeting, a high-ranking German politician suddenly veered off topic and onto the merits (and drawbacks) of "three-speed Europe", the idea that the European Union might adopt different categories of membership, with gradations of responsibility.
But this argument does not appease the Japanese, any more than other debt issuers who wonder why the agencies need so many gradations if there is barely any difference in default risks.In this section Badly overrated A1 for risk, D for effort Turn on the lights One attack or two?
For people creating videos, digitising books and mashing up online content of all kinds, "it's impossible not to bump up against copyright," says Mr Lessig.So in 2001 he founded Creative Commons, offering everyone an alternative to standard copyrights through various gradations of permission for use (right down to "no rights reserved").
Brits, though, have a keener sense of the subtle gradations of class.
Watercolours such as "Comedy" (1921) combine subtle gradations of colour with amusingly surreal creatures.
Musil re-imagined Soliman more than a century later in his famous novel, which captures in exquisite detail the gradations of inclusion and exclusion in Austria-Hungary.
