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In the usual meanings of positives, comparatives, and superlatives of English adjectives the gradations are taken to mean “--,” “-er/more --,” and “-est/most --,” the latter being the adverbs normally used to distinguish the comparatives and superlatives of polysyllabic words.
Being either homosexual or heterosexual, male or female, or fitting into any one of the myriad gradations between those extremes has nothing whatsoever to do with taste or values, and I did not imply that it does.
It's like a restaurant critic who's forced to specialize in different gradations of bland.
After two 1-minute rinses in distilled water, the tissue sections were counterstained with hematoxilin, cleared and dehydrated by successive gradations through 70%, 95%, and 100% ethanol followed by a final passage in xylene.
But on the other hand, inflated grades do a super job of distinguishing among fine gradations of weakness.