Her reputation has grown, quietly, since her death in 1979.
Even the endless stream of poo and wee jokes grew quietly comforting after a while.
JUST as Poland's economy and foreign-policy clout have grown quietly but significantly, so its banking system has become one of Europe's little-known star performers.
Or maybe you didn't notice that while you were happily knocking back margaritas and tearing through cheap fiction poolside, your skin was growing quietly livid.
But this narrow mandate to monitor elections in six Southern states grew quietly over the years, extending to unexpected corners of the country, including the Bronx.
The market for touch screens has grown quietly for years, both in commercial applications like restaurant point-of-sale systems, credit card signature readers or automated teller machines, and in consumer devices like global positioning systems and game platforms.
So in Renoir's 1951 film "The River" -- which is the story of summer in a British garden in India -- a child dies, a love affair fails and life grows quietly stronger.
The corporate shuttle business has been growing quietly and rapidly in recent years, said officials of Avolar, which is currently looking for an outside investor to shoulder some of the financial exposure of its parent, United.
One Cecily Crocker became Cecily Eaves and had a gay son who wrote stories and poems; another went on existing in her imagination, and quite possibly didn't pass her 11-plus, or, when mocked by a pompous headmistress for her "awful Cockney accent", instead of growing quietly determined, left school at 15.
Trevor's reputation as one of the world's finest short story writers has grown quietly but steadily over the half century he has been writing: as long ago as 1975, Graham Greene described Angels at the Ritz as "one of the best collections, if not the best since James Joyce's Dubliners".
