gradualness

However, I would not for one moment deny the continuity and the gradualness of the processes which are changing the earth.

From the floor, the chamber's immensity revealed itself with deceptive gradualness.

He watched in fascination as, with seeming gradualness, the masks sank below the waves.

In short, the very usefulness of recombination depends upon the gradualness that Darwin assumed.

He is hoping to be surprised by the gradualness, the gentleness of their collision with the earth's crust.

Instead they reconstruct remembered people and places with the gradualness of a jigsaw puzzle being assembled one piece at a time.

When used with adjectival roots, non-telicity may suggest a gradualness of the quality, such as the comparison in (6).

Over vast distances the monotonies, as well as the varieties and contrasts, elide with such painful gradualness one into another as to be scarcely noticeable.

The stealth, and the gradualness, which seemed to characterize what was going on, did not suggest the activities of authorized representatives of Miles of Argentum.

The door was opened with a gradualness that seemed to indicate caution or reluctance, and I saw before me an old man, bearing a lighted taper in his hand.

Lichtenberk, F. "On the Gradualness of Grammaticalization."

Actually, the gradualness of their descent helped control the turbidity, so whenever Dortmunder aimed his flashlight back up the track there was very little extra roiling of the water.

But it is the gradualness of the progression which requires comment: here is another instance of the author's refusal to acknowledge familiar distinctions taken for granted in the literal use of language.

As for the maddening gradualness of the 747's takeoff, it was explained to me that of course it has to take off less sharply than a smaller plane, or else it really would drag its tail along the runway.

Doom envelops the woman, who in some ways is very like a Butoh antihero, expressing a primal pain in an almost purely physical way, without incorporating details of the character's life, with a gradualness and deliberation that is sometimes maddening.

František Lichtenberk (1991): In his article on "The Gradualness of Grammaticalization", he defined grammaticalization as "a historical process, a kind of change that has certain consequences for the morphosyntactic categories of a language and thus for the grammar of the language.

When she became aware of Cadfael and his mule, she straightened her back with the right cautious gradualness and a true gardener's grunt, and turned upon him shrewd brown eyes under brows quizzically oblique, very knowing eyes that took him in from cowl to sandals in one sweeping glance.