His timing was impeccable, his gradations in tone subtle in execution, gripping in effect -- in short, a great performance.
He could tell the rancher how far along the cow was by his informal gradations: mouse, rat, Chihuahua, cat, fat cat, raccoon, beagle.
The energy that courses through every one of these single-movement pieces is derived from the superb definition that Subdin gives to every rhythm and to his precise gradations of touch and texture.
He was 18 years old and months away from his high school gradation.
(Leonardo achieved his signature sfumato effect, a subtle gradation of colors, using his fingers to spread the oil paints).
His use of gradations of greys and whites are models of pristine subtleties.
He did not specify which organisational features might comprise the network of organisms, but the immediately previous section of his treatise discussed gradations in e.g. musculature, circulatory and nervous systems, and the brain.
This law and his photometric work he published in his Essai d'optique sur la gradation de la lumière (1729; Optical Treatise on the Gradation of Light).
His experience with printmaking informed the nuanced tonal gradations in his paintings as well as the extreme detail applied to the nautical and natural elements (e.g., Boston Harbor, 1850 55; Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1862).
In this thought experiment, Shun shapes his reaction to a touchy situation according to his different, yet conflicting duties, and his way of doing this represents the gradation of values which Mencius thinks these duties bear: the father-son relationship is more important than the ruler-subjects one.
