Anne Carson

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.

Canadian Poet

Sam Kean

Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

American Writer

Toyin Odutola

It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

Nigerian Artist

John Saxon

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

American Actor

Stan Brakhage

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

American Director

Rahm Emanuel

I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

American Politician

William Hazlitt

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

English Critic

Franz Kafka

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Novelist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

American Philosopher

Julianne Moore

We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.

American Actress

Used to describe changes in visual elements like colors, lighting, or patterns.

Visual Transition

Indicates a gradual, stepwise change in a process or system, often leading to a specific result.

Step by Step

Implies that change doesn’t happen suddenly but requires time.

Not Instant

Refers to someone’s level or position within a structured hierarchy.

Position or Status

Relates to levels of social status, wealth, or authority.

Social Context

Determines that not all ranks or levels are of equal distance or importance.

Not Equal

Often used in scientific and academic contexts to arrange data or specimens.

Academic Classification

Used to describe the stages of development or evolution in nature.

Evolutionary Stages

Acts as a principle for organizing complex information into more digestible, hierarchical groups.

Organizing Principle

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Gradation