Gradations

From the precise art of the cut, which defines a diamond's interaction with light and its resulting sparkle, to the subtle gradations of color and clarity, we'll examine how these factors influence both appearance and price.

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause.

There may be slight gradations in character – ’s Greer is a little spikier than the usual Sad Wife, prone to saying things like “wedding dress be damned, huh?” when she sees her future daughter-in-law (Eve Hewson) eating a bread roll.

Walker slips easily between the gaps of what is said and not said, between yes and no and the mumbled gradations in between, while holding back from judging anybody.

Unfortunately, we have developed gradations of value, which encourage us to look down on some forms of work and to look up to others… rather looking at the work itself and its utility.

Where Western cuisines were always granted minute distinctions (Tuscan versus Piedmontese, say, or the thousand gradations within American barbecue), “foreign” cuisines were perceived as monoliths.

Marking the realist perspective, da Vinci is said to have used sfumato, an artistic technique for depicting the subtle gradations of light and shadow, rather than line to paint the image.

You need to make sure that there is proportionality in terms of, you know, being able to distinguish different gradations of bad behavior.

Everyone in Britain appears to detest everyone else — they always have — aristocrats vs. aspiring middle classes vs. chavs (“council house and violent”) plus traditionally stroppy millennials, and all the gradations between.

Film picks out the gradations of dying light, the last and first glimmers, and the florid corona of the eclipsed sun, to a degree and with a nuance that digital recording cannot approach.

As Darwin noted, "Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms?

He also suggested that machaeridians might be polyphyletic, but machaerdians are a well defined group with a number of shared characters and morphological gradations between all three families.

II, that Berthollet held the opinion that in all chemical unions, there exist insensible gradations in the proportions of the constituent principles.

In discussing these "difficulties" he noted "Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms?

Iridescence is a variety of the play of colours where light scatters off a coating on the surface of crystal, cleavage planes, or off layers having minor gradations in chemistry.

Lithography is known for its ability to capture fine gradations in shading and very small detail.

Mezzotint main An intaglio variant of engraving in which the image is formed from subtle gradations of light and shade.

New York: American book company. page 188 Often it is possible to find a bud in a remarkable series of gradations of bud scales.

So the labour might be performed on a more or less voluntary basis, or on a more or less involuntary basis, in which there are many gradations.

There are gradations of temperature both for chilling and heating, about every 5 degrees, with hot sake generally served around convert, and chilled sake around convert, like white wine.