more and more beautiful vs. ever more beautiful

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Hello dear people,is there a difference in meaning/style/use with these phrases?Are they both correct?She is getting more and more beautifulShe is getting ever more beautifulThank you!

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Anonymousis there a difference in meaning/style/use with these phrases?

I see none really, though the second seems more carefully crafted.

DAvictorID · Answer

Although neither are incorrect, I feel the word "becoming" is preferable to the word "getting"..

(Don't ask why - to me it just sounds better)

TerrylSky · Answer

She is getting more and more beautiful

She is getting ever more beautiful… is that grammatically correct? Sounds odd too.

Mister Micawber · Answer

TerrylSkyShe is getting ever more beautiful… is that grammatically correct?

Quite.

TerrylSkySounds odd too.

Perhaps you should read more.

....could only concur because no woman, let alone this one, was ever more beautiful! The native of Mannheim stood transfixed at the curtained window watching the Amish...
....The apartments arose in a pyramid; they became ever more beautiful as one ascended towards the apex, and they represented more beautiful worlds....
...she never mentioned it to Denise or Darleen, even as Josh's behavior grew ever more cruel..
...The carnage in Syria grew ever more brutal today, with reports that government troops carried out a massacre after recapturing
...Do you still live there as the city has become ever more dangerous?
...getting help for your comfort and quality of life, support for making complex, ever more complex, frankly, decisions about your treatment and care...
...remain on top twenty years down the road' ASC will have to conduct business ever more ruthlessly..
...covered by cottage cheese, and no one can see the taps that are growing ever more frantic. I begin to flail, clawing at the cottage cheese.
...always managed to pop back up within an hour or two, still silent but ever more determined. When he'd run out of ideas for getting rid of her
...In an era of ever more sophisticated artificial intelligence, some tasks still needed an old-fashioned human pilot. .
...He wrote two more novels in that series, books that slid ever more transparently toward authorial wish-fulfillment, the *** increasingly kinky, the protagonist increasingly irresistible
...kinky, the protagonist increasingly irresistible. In the books the writerprotagonist finds himself facing ever more powerful evil, yet always discovering hithertofore unsuspected magical abilities more potent than he
...My face is hot and numb. I notice ever more keenly the cold seeping along my spine. # My hands, though I
...own small surprises with this issue. Along with tweaking MHQ's design for an ever more cohesive and elegant look, MHQ's small (but brilliant) staff.
...As the attack drew near and Tokyo pressed him for ever more intelligence on the fleet, Yoshikawa expanded his reconnaissance.
...who enable it to play ever riskier games with other people's money, generating ever more fantastical returns, a tiny portion of which is invested back in political giving
...seemed a balm for a Church wounded by scandal, divided within, and growing ever more testily distant from the surrounding culture.
etc.

Anonymous · Answer

So is "ever more" only typical of written language/fiction? Or could you imagine someone saying it in an everyday conversation?

Thank you for all your answers!

Mister Micawber · Answer

AnonymousSo is "ever more" only typical of written language/fiction? Or could you imagine someone saying it in an everyday conversation?

One might say it, but it is more literary than 'more and more'. As I said, it is more carefully crafted, which is characteristic of the written language and prepared speeches.

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