But the proposed choice of Ms. Saldana to play Simone has reignited the conversation of colorism — Alice Walker's term for discrimination based on gradations of skin color.
And using a soft-textured black crayon as his medium, he developed a drawing style based almost entirely on gradations of shadow and light.
As our understanding of the symptoms Kanner described has grown, the notion of an autism spectrum, based on gradations of severity, has evolved.
This number, 2 × 12, or 24, was derived in Babylonia from the Sumerian sexagesimal method of reckoning, based on gradations of 60 (5 × 12 = 60) rather than on multiples of 10.
In Washington and in state capitals, the squabbling is epic, and it's focused not on what we might dare to build but on what we might manage to preserve, not on degrees of progress but on gradations of regress: how many parks, schools, libraries need be closed.
What may be lost in his treatment of Ali is his sympathetic portrait of Frazier -- which helps explain how his upbringing in the low country of Beaufort, S.C., where class distinctions were based on gradations of blackness -- informed his reaction to Ali's racial taunts.
Until that day arrives, one can't ignore that some groups of people are less valued than others based on gradations of identity.
As the contents of lime and fly ash increased, the effect of gradation on the fatigue performance of LFASM became negligible.
In this paper, a Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) approach is used to evaluate the impacts of gradation on both ballast void space and load carrying performances.
Moreover, the effects of gradation on permanent strain accumulation were significantly more pronounced at the higher shear stress ratios (e.g. 0.75), compared to lower shear stress ratios; which is defined as the ratio between the shear stress applied to a specimen during repeated load triaxial testing compared to the corresponding shear strength under the same confinement.
