Word: gradualness
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...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...
...were having people tell you about things like sex. I didn't see any," he adds hastily. What he did see was a kind of boot camp where teenagers are initiated into the social matrices of sex and power against the autumnal backdrop of what Wolfe describes as "the gradual--maybe not so gradual--disappearance of conventional morality...
...investigators like we know our coworkers, as sets of tidbits and quirks--Horatio Caine (David Caruso) is divorced; Gil Grissom (Petersen) is an atheist--but the job comes first, second and third. L&O's cops are even less well defined, and that has helped the show survive the gradual loss of its original cast. (This season Dennis Farina replaced long-timer Jerry Orbach...
...left lane is slightly wider and deeper. It also presents the advantage of giving a crew a better point—that is, leaves the boat better oriented coming out from underneath the bridge—for the gradual turn around Magazine Beach...
Pelletier, who was involved in managing the survey, said that a gradual decline in this number has been evident in several polls conducted since the terrorist attacks...