incipience

• “The original score, all a-throb with scary incipience, was composed by David Wingo.”

  The Wall Street Journal: '50/50': Cheerful Illness Tale, With Relapses

• “In contrast to part 1, which was a ponderous exercise in stage-setting and dramatic incipience, this film, directed by David Yates and adapted by Steve Kloves, is a climax worthy of the term.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Harry Potter and the Fantastic Finale

• “Her teenage daughter, Mandy Ashley Rickards, is autistic, and that incipience can give way to utter chaos without warning.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Incendies' Burns With Mystery, Truth

• “It is almost the contrary: signification has its incipience in transcendence; transcendence is the intersubjective quality of sensibility.”

  Emmanuel Levinas

• “The situation's bad, hence the decision to increase the presence of U.S. and international forces in Baghdad, though not clear that alone will be enough to quell this incipience of a war.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2006

• “He made Kaethe Gregorovius feel charming, meanwhile becoming increasingly restless at the all-pervading cauliflower — simultaneously hating himself too for this incipience of he knew not what superficiality.”

  Tender is the Night

• “Through the windows, he had seen sunlight streaking the Georgica Pond - the name a deliberate understatement typical of the local gentry, it being more the size of a lake - like pigment upon a painter's brush: there was a sense about the light of incipience, of colour that was not yet vivid, of an idea not yet formed.”

  Black Blade

• “The sky had lightened a little, but the air was heavy with the incipience of a storm.”

  Black Blade

• “The sky could no longer be seen and the air had grown heavy and dank as if with the incipience of a storm.”

  The Miko

• “Stile felt his heartbeat and respiratory rate increase with the incipience of this effort.”

  Blue Adept

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