Yet gradually a view solidified at the DfE that the Manningham school "would not be financially viable", at least in the form the charity was proposing it.
Gradually, that view has lost out to the mantra of intellectual property, as in "this is my creation and you can't have it".
Gradually another view of Plath emerged -- of a woman who was moody, selfish, jealous, quarrelsome, more than a little paranoid and generally impossible to get along with.
Many affluent Americans still have curved driveways, but they like them because of their esthetic beauty and their beneficial effect in giving visitors a gradually unfolding view of the main house.
Gradually, the view levels out panoramic, still with no city lights, an apocalypse.
Gradually, this view fell into disfavor as theism came to be understood as encompassing belief in any divinity.
Protestant America gradually began viewing the accumulation of material goods and the cultivation of wealth as signs of God's blessing, and, with the decade of economic expansion and optimism in the 1880s, wealth became the defining characteristic of American success.
As an increasingly ill Pratt fought the charges, public opinion gradually shifted from viewing the case as that of an entitled fat cat getting his comeuppance to a witch hunt by the activist head of the Australian regulatory authority.
You'd be standing on the deck, watching a strip of land appear on the horizon, before it gradually mushroomed into view and finally filled the frame.
His fate, a dot in the distance at first, gradually looms into view.
