Sentence examples for gradually takes shape from inspiring English sources

He is an initiate --, tanding, transmuting transmuting -- until something different, still called alchemy, gradually takes shape.

Through Nick's eyes and Mr. Rudd's lucid voice-over, the glamorous, enticing enigma who is Gatsby gradually takes shape.

Starting on a single, sustained tone low in the instrument's range, the unaccompanied flute line gradually takes shape as an alluring, gently chromatic fantasy.

Typically of scriptwriter James Toback, however, the gambler (incisively played by James Caan) is beset by an obscure existential angst that gradually takes shape as a drive to self-destruction.

Although a new firm does not spontaneously spring out of an individual's intuition, the framework wherein it gradually takes shape tends to make it a novel combination that is coherent in terms of production, sales and accounting.

There is also remarkably little repetition; indeed, Carter, who is working on a history of Stonewall, contrives to have successive interviews fill in different parts of the same topic -- Ginsberg's early life or musical projects or ideas about drugs -- so that each of these pictures gradually takes shape over the course of the volume.

The production gradually took shape.

From the 1890s a welfare state gradually took shape.

The Doctor is gradually taking shape in our mind as America's ideal Columbia professor.

A new way of shopping – and, conceivably, a new way for fashion – is gradually taking shape.

Along these lines a eucharistic theology gradually took shape in the apostolic and early church without much controversy or formulation.