Nonetheless, the Sugarplum Fairy is a grand ballerina role that is all the more difficult because there is no gradual development of character or onstage presence.
At one point she just sent a letter to the mayor, describing the project, recounting her travails with the bureaucracy, highlighting the contributions of the Irish to New York and lamenting the city's gradual loss of character.
Lignin exhibits intermediate thermal degradation character (gradual degassing/decomposition from 260 500 °C).
With some irregularities, atoms therefore become smaller, ionization energy increases, and there is a gradual change in character, across a period, from strongly metallic, to weakly metallic, to weakly nonmetallic, to strongly nonmetallic elements.
One of the great strengths of Kendall Kulper's book is the gradual reveal: various characters' motives start out briny, then crystallise alarmingly as the story moves towards a squally denouement.
This pattern is paralleled by recent studies that showed gradual acquisition of characters in the forelimb of this lineage [10], suggesting that many of the numerous features that previously distinguished Sauropoda from other dinosaurs appeared gradually in the evolutionary history of Sauropodomorpha.
Shaun's gradual retreat to supporting character has been shrewdly managed by Shane Meadows – one of the delights of an ensemble piece is that over time, redemptions can be achieved and emphasis can shift.
Another interesting aspect of the Riḥlah is the gradual revealing of the character of Ibn Baṭṭūṭah himself; in the course of the narrative the reader may learn the opinions and reactions of an average middle-class Muslim of the 14th century.
This gradual change in transformation character is accompanied by a gradual decrease of the interface velocity.
"Blue Jasmine" follows the title character's gradual disintegration after she flees Manhattan in the wake of her philandering husband's imprisonment for financial fraud.
