The book seems to begin as memoir or an autobiography, but rapidly devolves into numerous fragmented accounts of Thompson's exploits which could be termed as a type of Gonzo biography.

Each of these economic activities dissipated within a brief period of time, however, and Nicoya rapidly devolved into a colonial backwater.

From a rebellion against Christianity, the Taki Unquy devolved rapidly into a political revolt with an ideology in keeping with Andean tradition.

Zane did not care to get his robe wet, so he tried to go around the water-but soon discovered that the land on either side devolved rapidly into more marsh.

"The voice started out as Hungarian, and we all agreed on that, but then it rapidly devolved into gobbledy-gooseky," Mr. McShane said.

But if the evidence of common speech is any guide, the idea of God has been rapidly devolving from the generalized to the particular, from the awesomely abstract to the intensely (even idiosyncratically) personal.

Their private tragedy, we know well, became a series of loggerheaded squabbles in which efforts to reach consensus on what we mean by "human life" rapidly devolved.

This was a time in which city planning was rapidly devolving into a rubber stamp for real estate developers.

However, the hurricane defied predictions and began devolving rapidly the next day, likely due to "an unexpectedly early increase of vertical wind shear coupled with marginal thermodynamics" as noted by the NHC.

Many of these arguments devolved rapidly into braggadocio, name calling and foul language.