Sentence examples for slowly accrued from inspiring English sources

All the ballad can say is that its hero avoids picking on the needy or on women – a motif we find in most bandit ballads (including those extolling Lampion or the ruthless Jesse James), and which slowly accrued substance through the following century.

And he is slowly accruing fans.

The first group, he reported, believed Medvedev was ascending and "slowly accruing power".

The group joins in and works through the changes, and ideas for arrangements slowly accrue.

The daughter embarks on an investigation of her mother's world, and slowly accrues details of a life of drugs, motorcycles, and love affairs.

And between 1984 and 2009 there were a hundred and thirty-three instances of brain damage — not slowly accruing damage, as in the case of C.T.E., but damage upon impact.

There are direct elections regularly to a European parliament, which is slowly accruing more powers; slowly because the national politicians who have to give them to it resent anything that limits their own.

Taylor's long-simmering daube of a novel slowly accrues savour as it explores how food and literature might settle heartbreak, and wonders about Jewishness semi-assimilated in France and Canada.

If you then continue this pattern of 'partial sleep reduction behaviour' you would slowly accrue a sleep 'debt'; this is a bit like over-spending on your credit card – you will need to pay back before you can function properly.

There are philosophical dividends that slowly accrue as you read story after story of ordinary families made remarkable by circumstance, and Solomon quotes Foucault's argument that if error is "at the root of what makes human thought and its history" then to prohibit error would be to "end evolution".

His new "Anchises," which opened at the Abrons Arts Center on Wednesday night, is a subtle tour de force, a slowly accruing succession of images that owes its power not just to the chemistry of the exceptional performers and designers that Mr. Bokaer has assembled, but also to the rigorous focus that all bring to their task.