gradation

"By squeezing -- silencing the noise -- you effectively use quantum mechanical interactions to 'squish' that meter stick, effectively creating finer gradations and allowing you to measure smaller things more precisely."

There are gradations of difference, and there are tipping points that you cross.

Lacorazza’s movie is one of gradations, the daughters in the later chapters subtly carrying the cumulative disappointment and stubborn love these woman still harbor for their flawed father.

The movie does not go where you think it will, or pay close attention to the gradations of Samet’s dangerous misjudgments at the expense of a larger narrative.

Another key problem is that the movie, though appealingly shot in gradations of dreaminess and realism by cinematographer Alwin H. Küchler, is trapped between character study and avenging thriller, leaving both sides starved for oxygen.