incipiently

Frank has a special reason for keeping his job: he’s an incipiently ambitious businessman with his eye on a real-estate deal that will take millions to realize.

As soon as his brush strokes began to clump into shapes, fidgeting, incipiently comical suggestions of people, places, things, relationships and feelings began to infiltrate his pictures.

For the first time she recognized anew the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman.

At the same time, Carpeaux was also incipiently modern, a crucial influence on Rodin and his generation of French sculptors.

As attentive as it is to form and detail, the image as a whole has a strange, incipiently erotic feeling.