Word: gradualness
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...ocean. The rise in sea levels caused by global warming threatens to flood these low-lying areas around the world permanently, causing massive dislocations of people and unimaginable loss of property. And that is just one of the dire consequences of global warming. In the long run, the gradual heating of the planet will change weather patterns and increase mortality due to the spread of tropical diseases...
...American citizen is left with a riskier retirement outlook from a system that’s very name heralds its aversion to risk. Social Security is in need of a facelift, not a burial. Placing the system on stronger footing is necessary and can be accomplished by a gradual increase of the retirement age to 70 to reflect the reality of longer life expectancies. While private retirement accounts should have a place in any individual’s retirement plans, that place should be outside of and in addition to the reliable kernel of our current Social Security system...
...quite invested enough in the performance to support it. In creating Zissou, Murray cleanly cuts out the weary heartache of Lost in Translation’s Bob Harris to offer a shell of a man too sterile and smarmy to lend any real gravitas to Zissou’s gradual realization of his own mid-life impotence...
...from an aging cosmetics empress (Susan Sarandon) to a flighty, semi-psychotic teenager. But the car is borrowed, the suits were on sale and beneath Law’s charming smirk is a calculating mind. Alfie has no warmth or romanticism, despite his British charm. The movie captures his gradual comprehension of that emptiness surprisingly well. His self-discovery is aided by the stylistic device of Alfie’s narration directly to the audience; in his self-absorption, Alfie considers his life to be the constant focus of a camera. But his ostentatious posing for the camera also reveals...
...only stipulation? That the color changes in the lights be kept to a relatively slow, soothing rhythm, as faster patterns “can cause problems for anybody who has a neurological problem with epilepsy or migraines. So we’re going to more gradual pattern melding rather than Bap! Bap! Bap!,” House Master Robert Kirshner wrote in an email...