It seems hard, but not impossible, to imagine ourselves back into that earlier, more unencumbered state: knowing our bodies by how it feels to dwell in them, instead of by how they shift incrementally over the course of a day, or a lifetime.
If we allow each other to shift incrementally we often follow through.
Yes, we have fancier stents for our cardiac patients, and more targeted chemotherapy for our cancer patients, but the overall paradigms have shifted only incrementally.
As Mr. Kentridge stages it, the power dynamics in the scene shift incrementally in Lulu's favor, until Dr. Schön ends up on the floor and Lulu stands victoriously atop her boudoir vanity.
In my 17 years on the job, calling a primary physician at home at night for an order, say to get lab work in the morning, has incrementally shifted to calls to the hospitalist at hand, or even a face-to-face chat as they make their rounds.
We found that as the positions of flickering Gabor stimuli were incrementally shifted, the spatial correlation in the pattern of activity decreased.
Legal systems change incrementally, technology changes exponentially.
MR: People change incrementally.
The fashion industry can only change incrementally.
only has the power to incrementally shift existing practices.
Just as transcendent was the ending of John Luther Adams's "Sila: The Breath of the World," an hour-long work designed for the outdoors, in which strings, wind, brass, voices, and percussion generate incrementally shifting clouds of tones based on the natural harmonic series emanating from a low B-flat.
