MR. MCCURRY: We kind of gradate the way we do this and we're at the senior advisers recommend veto level at this point. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
Newton observed that the hues gradate smoothly into each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Color Wheel, Part 1] Reference
My question is, do they gradate at equal strengths along the way?. From Wordnik.com. [James Perry Wilson’s Dioramas, Part 2] Reference
I applied to the International Women's Club in Sofia to provide a transition home for orphans once they gradate. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
From this point the dark and light masses gradate in different directions until they merge above the ships 'sails. From Wordnik.com. [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference
My wife (Virginia) and I met at the University of Michigan, spent the first year of our marriage in Belfast, Northern Ireland, spent a year in North Carolina, and started having children when I was in gradate school at Princeton. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Hellenga biography] Reference
Well, lets see: tons of post-gradate education; years of experience as a park ranger and biology teacher; extensive familiarity with hundreds of problematic exotic species; an outdoors nut; tough as nails; tons of public speaking experience. From Wordnik.com. [Host Needed for Outdoor TV Show] Reference
Roughly speaking the whole of this dark frame of tones from the accented point of the trees at the top to the mass of the rock on the left, may be said to gradate away into the distance; cut into by the wedge-shaped middle tone of the hills leading to the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference
She also attended the University of Zagreb as a gradate student through a program sponsored by the Oregon State System of Higher Education and later, in a mid-career program, she completed a year of graduate work in systems analysis at M.I.T. Ms. Lino speaks Italian, French, Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [Lino Named Ambassador To Albania] Reference
Local high school gradate continues education into the "wild blue yonder". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Billeci, a 1997 De La Salle gradate who finished off two Spartans championships at the. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Still others use it to describe the ombré plaids popular in Western shirts in which two colors gradate from one to the other. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Nay, I think it may even be a question whether we ought not to resolve that the line should never gradate itself at all, but terminate quite bluntly!. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
It isolated the undergraduates into separate residential "colleges" taught primarily by a separate faculty, while the big-name professors concentrated on research and gradate-level professional training. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
So that using black ink and only one movement of the pen, not returning to thicken your line, you shall either have your line there, or not there; and that you may not be able to gradate or change it, in any way or degree whatsoever. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871] Reference
Mr. Loulichki received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Rabat in 1976; a University post-gradate degree, also from Rabat in 1978; and a post-graduate diploma in international law from the Sorbonne in Paris in 1979. From Wordnik.com. [Database of Press Releases related to Africa] Reference
Draw, therefore, two parallel lines for limits to your work, as in Fig. 2., and try to gradate the shade evenly from white to black, passing over the greatest possible distance, yet so that every part of the band may have visible change in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
As soon as you find you can gradate tolerably with the pen, take an H. or HH. pencil, using its point to produce shade, from the darkest possible to the palest, in exactly the same manner as the pen, lightening, however, now with India-rubber instead of the penknife. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
So take any narrow space of evening sky, that you can usually see, between the boughs of a tree, or between two chimneys, or through the corner of a pane in the window you like best to sit at, and try to gradate a little space of white paper as evenly as that is gradated -- as. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
But there are two reasons: the first, that when you come to draw forms, you must be able to gradate with absolute precision, in whatever place and direction you wish; not in any wise vaguely, as the India-rubber does it; and, secondly, that all natural shadows are more or less mingled with gleams of light. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
Then gradate your lights with the utmost subtilty possible to you; but let your shadows alone, until near the termination of the drawing: then put quickly into them what farther energy they need, thus gaining the reflected lights out of their original flat gloom; but generally not looking much for reflected lights. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870] Reference
Can we see that actions, for the acquisition of which experience is such an obvious necessity, that whenever we see the acquisition we assume the experience, gradate away imperceptibly into actions which would seem, according to all reasonable analogy, to presuppose experience, of which, however, the time and place seem obscure, if not impossible?. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Habit] Reference
Nevertheless, take a strong magnifying glass to this -- count the dots and lines that gradate the nostrils and the edges of the facial bone; notice how the light is left on the top of the head by the stopping at its outline of the coarse touches which form the shadows under the leaves; examine it well, and then -- I humbly ask of you -- try to do a piece of it yourself!. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
Nevertheless, take a small magnifying glass to this -- count the dots and lines that gradate the nostrils and the edges of the facial bone; notice how the light is left on the top of the head by the stopping, at its outline, of the coarse touches which form the shadows under the leaves; examine it well, and then -- I humbly ask of you -- try to do a piece of it yourself!. From Wordnik.com. [Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving] Reference
But you ought not to be impatient with your pen and ink; for all great painters, however delicate their perception of colour, are fond of the peculiar effect of light which may be got in a pen-and-ink sketch, and in a woodcut, by the gleaming of the white paper between the black lines; and if you cannot gradate well with pure black lines, you will never gradate well with pale ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
It would now be possible to treat this skeleton of a stone, which could only have been knit together by Tintoret's rough temper, with the care of a Fleming; to leave its fiercely-stricken lights emanating from a golden ground, to gradate with the pen its ponderous shadows, and in its completion, to dwell with endless and intricate precision upon fibers of moss, bells of heath, blades of grass, and films of lichen. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
2. Luminescent colors often gradate from one color to another along the spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [Luminescence] Reference
Law students do care about gradate students. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Another Strike at York University (and Osgoode Hall)? : Law is Cool] Reference
S. gradate. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
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