Sentence examples for gradual accretion from inspiring English sources

It was a work of gradual accretion, and up close one can see the various levels and layers.

But the gradual accretion of detail makes its chronicle of moral compromise appear, if not exactly plausible, then certainly well thought-out and absorbing.

She was able to penetrate, too, into the others' motives and relations — grown-up insight seemed to come not through gradual accretion but all at once.

Thus history is not just "one fucking thing after another", as Alan Bennett has it, but a gradual accretion through contradiction of the necessary stages for the fulfilment of the absolute.

According to Posner and Vermeule, we now live under an administrative state providing welfare and national security through a gradual accretion of power in executive agencies to the point of dominance.

Swanberg's best features are composed of moments between moments; they allow for both physical and dialectical meandering, moments of gradual accretion and sudden discovery the kinds of moments that lose their wonder when their development is, in the interest of tempo, forced through editing.

The state allows property owners to keep oceanfront land gained through gradual and imperceptible accretion but gives new land created suddenly to the owner of the seabed, which is typically the state.

Gradually, the accretions suggest something worth shaping into verse.

As with many other organismal traits, the evolution of components of flight performance in extant birds, including wing shape, is best understood as gradual change along a continuum or a stepwise accretion of traits [ 6].

LC-PUFA accretion in human brain is a slow gradual process [ 6].

The accretion of length variation as indels within a protein domain superfamily, however, was observed to be gradual and constituent domain members from the four major classes showed from <5 to >45% length variation (Figure 1).