His descent into madness is rapid but not sudden, and his lunacy seems inevitable.
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The stickiness of house prices suggests the drag on consumer spending will be long and grinding, not sudden and sharp.
In fact, Brazil's emergence has been steady, not sudden.
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The process that Cowen describes would produce a gradual bend in the curve of progress, not the sudden change in slope that actually occurred.
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Oddly--or sadly--enough, overcrowding in hospitals is actually the result not of sudden infectious outbreaks, but of the inefficient way surgeons book their operating rooms, says Eugene Litvak, a Boston University operations management expert.
In fact, the two biggest economic disasters of the 20th century--the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Great Inflation of the 1970s--were both the result of catastrophic government mistakes, not a sudden failure of free-market capitalism.
There are signs of that actually happening in the next few months -- not an avalanche of masterworks, not the sudden transformation of an obviously troubled part of the entertainment industry, but the emergence of a number of unusual movies with a better-than-even chance of artistic as well as commercial success.
It was not quite the sudden shift from litmus red to blue of an acid being neutralised by an alkali, but it was not far off.
Even so, the housing market may not have a sudden big crash, as the stockmarket has.
While Chromebooks are fairly inexpensive, they have not experienced the sudden price drops that have accompanied the tablet industry.
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It would have been worse, had the Hungarian state bus operator not discovered a sudden need for new buses in December.
In contrast to the housing crash, the risk from student debt is not of a sudden explosion in losses but of gradual financial suffocation.
But it will not bring a sudden upsurge in economic confidence, or in the value of the currency, the rupiah, which has fallen 70% since last July.
Pathologist Professor Peter Berry, for the prosecution, said in his opinion the two children had been suffocated and were not victims of sudden infant death syndrome or cot death.
As such, its achievement in taking a fifth of the votes in Sunday's election, while notable, does not indicate a sudden rise to prominence for the far right, he said.
As such, its achievement in taking a fifth of the votes in the first round of voting, while notable, did not indicate a sudden rise to prominence for the far right, he said.
If this is to be the future, we can expect 5-10 years of inflation at the 5% level and, with luck, there will not be a sudden vicious burst into the 10-20% zone.
Not even a sudden surge in comparisons between Kindle and Nook or the announcement of Kindle book lending and magazine on free-apps, or the announcement of a 39% increase in sales makes a marked difference in late 2010.
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We're hearing that access may have ameliorated in at least parts of the country, which would be a pleasant surprise -- not that a sudden improvement in service will cheer up those who know they still face a backlog.
Commercial accounts like to use average prices in their hedging so that they are not heavily exposed to sudden one-day spikes or sell-offs in the market.
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If I could predict anything, there will not be a huge sudden personal robot breakthrough: instead, there will be decades in front of us of patient basic research in many countries by thousands of researchers, with unexpected, fascinating results.
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McCune might have remained a footnote, another addition to the long list of humanitarians who, for at least a century, have become involved in Sudan for reasons often half-hidden from themselves, had it not been for her sudden marriage to an African warlord named Riek Machar, or Dr Riek as he was known to his followers.
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Also, mortgages have a duration (a calculation of the time it takes to get paid back) that is a variable, hypothetical duration that varies with prepayment speeds, so a short duration mortgage portfolio is not protection against a sudden increase in interest rates, because if interest rates rise the duration will rise which hurts the value of the bond.
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Experts are not surprised by the seemingly sudden change of heart on marriage, especially among women.
Over the short term, our pay does not keep up with a sudden jump in oil prices.
Now, all of a sudden he may not even be considered the best player of his generation.
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