Sentence examples for in gradations of from inspiring English sources

Anne Smith's "Potomac Prints" is a set of 20 horizon lines, rendered in gradations of color.

It was a cotton hand-weave with jazzy, Matisse-ish patterns worked out in gradations of indigo.

Then they enter hundreds of commands to execute the next day's drive, which can require calibration of movement in gradations of centimeters.

The works, done in gradations of black and white, feature lines of gracefully handwritten words, some legible, some obscured by foggy washes of paint.

Here on these pale rolling hills, the plowed fields, littered with white hunks of rock, sweep away in gradations of color, from creamy white to dark chocolate.

Frey spends Monday to Friday afternoon in Vegas, while Bloom stays in L. A. in their canyon home decorated with shades of white that could only be picked by someone who spends her life specializing in gradations of color.

Hazlitt observes: [A]s it happens in most of the author's works, there is not only the utmost keeping in each separate character; but in the casting of the different parts, and their relation to one another, there is an affinity and harmony, like what we may observe in the gradations of colour in a picture.

He writes of the difficult history of ethnic Koreans there, and of the mysteries of mizu shobai, or the "water trade", in which female companionship in infinite gradations of intimacy and humiliation is traded for money.

The early morning sun casts shadows across cracking layers of alternating care and neglect, and I begin to see shapes in the shades: pentimento flames in the gradations of red.

In its voicings and especially in its gradations of string tone, the performance seems to fix Elgar's orchestral writing even more firmly into the context of post-Wagnerian romanticism than before; the veiled sound for the opening motto theme immediately evokes memories of Parsifal, while the slow movements sometimes acquire a Brucknerian spaciousness.

Thus staff notation is ill-equipped to cope with non-Western scales and tunings, with music to which the idea of the "note" (a stable, sustained pitch) is foreign, or with music whose subtlety lies as much in delicate gradations of volume or timbre as in pitch and rhythm.