"This confirms that the Chinese economy continues to recover gradually," wrote Qu Hongbin, HSBC's chief China economist.
From October 22, 1837, to November 3, 1861, a span of 24 years and 12 days, Henry Thoreau reported to his Journal, gradually writing over 2 million words into its 47 manuscript volumes.
"Port of Morrow" brings Mercer closer to the lineage he's been gradually writing himself into: the lush psychedelia of XTC, on an album like "Skylarking," or even seventies pop acts like Joe Walsh and Supertramp.
Suddenly, a prime minister whom Japanese were gradually writing off is being taken seriously again, by his most powerful foes -- who paradoxically are found within his own Liberal Democratic Party -- and by a public disaffected with politics.
This encouraged me gradually to write about more personal things: about my mother's death, about living with alopecia, struggling with an eating disorder.
That last book, although substantially factual, spliced fiction into the mix, and served as a stage in what Spufford has described as his "creeping up gradually on writing novels".
At the vanguard of the nascent Off-Off Broadway experimental theater movement in NYC, Fornes is often referred to as American theater's "Mother Avant-Garde". When she gradually stops writing due to dementia, an unexpected friendship with filmmaker Michelle Memran reignites her spontaneous creative spirit and triggers a decade-long collaboration that picks up where the pen left off.
"You can see the composition gradually disintegrate," Mak writes, and though he is talking about Steinbeck's book, he might well be talking about America itself.
"Napoleon did not vault onto the imperial throne but moved toward dictatorship gradually," Mr. Woloch writes, in a partial explanation for the complicity of others.
But then, she writes, Christianity gradually returned to the traditional patriarchal system of Judaism.
