| Much of the problem is that gradualness or jerkiness is in the eye of the beholder. |
| It demands organization and discipline, gradualness and progress, dedication and evaluation. |
| Global warming might one day be, but not for decades, or even centuries, and with a gradualness that will leave years for countermeasures. |
| There is no gradualness and there are no countermeasures to a dozen nuclear warheads detonating simultaneously in U.S. cities. |
| Because of the gradualness of evolution, immediate descendants differ little, and then mostly quantitatively, from their ancestors. |
| Because of the gradualness with which the land slopes upward from the lake, I had no sense of climbing at all for the first half-hour. |
