But the viewer gradually becomes aware that there are more complex effects at play.
Shimon's squat was his atelier and gallery, within it, I gradually became aware that I had entered his mind.
"I gradually became aware that the real problem for language wasn't the abstract but the concrete," she says.
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
As Sister's story of betrayal and injustice unfolds, the reader gradually becomes aware that Sister's view of the world is as strange as that of the various members of her family.
And Barney is the most unreliable of unreliable narrators: at the story's most crucial moment he passes out drunk, and the reader gradually becomes aware that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.
Those versed in sign language gradually became aware that something strange was going on: the man was a fake; he was making up his own signs; he was flapping his hands around, but there was no meaning in it.
We know, for example, that there are people who picked up their first copy of "The New Yorker" on account of a story or a "casual --on acasual --onmething by O'Hara or casual --onSaccountofr Perelman or Munro or Updike--and only later, and gradually, became aware that other kindsomethinging were on offer in these pages too.
As the Allies attacked from the air and sea in the early hours of 6 June, local commanders gradually became aware that the long-awaited invasion had begun.
As industry and railroads left the Mississippi riverfront, people gradually became aware that the riverfront could be a destination for living, working, and shopping.
"I gradually became aware that some of Max's issues are Jerry's issues," said Noah. "Jerry suggested Kevin Pollak, who I later realized looks a lot like his sons.
