It's your own natural impulses, and then it's you slowly acquiring the text, rather than the other way around.

His work slowly acquired a greater political emphasis.

With wedding gifts from his father, James was able to slowly acquire his own personal wealth.

He is slowly acquiring the habits of the ordinary.

The system moved northwestward and slowly acquired a low-level center of circulation.

But even without privatization, Pemex is slowly acquiring the characteristics of a private corporation.

Initially focused on the trial, it slowly acquired all the elements of a regular paper.

Around 1940, the first private homes were built and the town slowly acquired the Tirolés character that defines it today.

Many children feel the need to pour from one container to another continuously as they slowly acquire manual skill.

I slowly acquired a few more, but that was my baby.