Grief, once suffered, will never leave entirely – but it can gradually morph into something more bearable.
Public grumbling about traffic jams gradually morphed into praise for a new green space.
Those who sit for all eight hundred and forty repetitions tend to agree on a common sequence of reactive stages: fascination morphs into agitation, which gradually morphs into all-encompassing agony.
They formed the Neptunes, a four-piece R&B band, which gradually morphed into their producer duo.
The Economist reported in 2007 that the Japanese concept has gradually morphed into a more generously-proportioned model elsewhere.
Since then, it has gradually morphed into a global brand that confers status and cool on anyone associated with it.
She moved into the authority's school finance team, then joined Arthur Terry as a finance officer, with the job gradually morphing into her present role.
After the fall of the Berlin wall, the Italian Communist party gradually morphed into the centre-left Democrats, but the Cascinese, by and large, stayed loyal.
Harris's character, Carl, starts out as the brainy member of a high-school clique but gradually morphs into an SS-style fascist technocrat.
I'm generally quite low-key about my practice expectations, but at this time of year, I get more demanding, and Mrs. Hughes gradually morphs into Mrs. Hyde.
This claustrophobic dance gradually morphed into a mimed fight, with the two standing at a distance, throwing punches and blows that never landed.
