"gradual" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Tocqueville believed that war and colonization would "restore national pride, threatened", he believed, by "the gradual softening of social mores" in the middle classes.
- A sharp decline in real estate prices in the United States, rather than the expected gradual softening, would crimp consumer spending.
- This has meant a gradual softening of his trademark sign-off, which started out as "a great, strong class" and mysteriously lost its comma about a year later.
- His gradual softening into a director of Hallmark-style sentimentality offers a cautionary case study of an artist succumbing to the bottom-line mentality of Hollywood.
- It was perhaps the first sign of the gradual softening of the Tyrannian military spirit that more and more of such ships were being added to the navy.
- Upon gradual softening of the colonial system, many tribes which were moved to Kayeli Bay started returning to their ancestral homes.
- After 1956, with the Soviet cause politically and morally bankrupt, there came a gradual softening of the brutal Stalinist line of the immediate postwar years.
- "But that's good: a gradual softening with no collapse."
- Instead, he concentrated on her first faint shiver, on that gradual, glorious softening of her body against his.
- The rehabilitation of the National Alliance would probably not have been possible without a gradual softening of the portrayal of Fascism both in the scholarly literature and the popular media.
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