Extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length

Usage examples of unfolding.

It may be a distasteful notion, this bringing-down of happiness so low as to the animal world--making it over, as then we must, even to the vilest of them and not withholding it even from the plants, living they too and having a life unfolding to a Term.

But Zeus--ordering all, governor, guardian and disposer, possessor for ever of the kingly soul and the kingly intellect, bringing all into being by his providence, and presiding over all things as they come, administering all under plan and system, unfolding the periods of the kosmos, many of which stand already accomplished--would it not seem inevitable that, in this multiplicity of concern, Zeus should have memory of all the periods, their number and their differing qualities?

Let us keep in mind what we have laid down: The being we are considering is a living unity and, therefore, necessarily self-sympathetic: it is under a law of reason, and therefore the unfolding process of its life must be self-accordant: that life has no haphazard, but knows only harmony and ordinance: all the groupings follow reason: all single beings within it, all the members of this living whole in their choral dance are under a rule of Number.

The consideration of Quantity brings the same result: If production is undetermined in regard to Quantity, each thing has its distinct Reason-Principle: if there is a measured system the Quantity has been determined by the unrolling and unfolding of the Reason-Principles of all the existences.

The surface of the sphere contorted, opening before him like an unfolding lotus blossom.

He heard Davey moving in the dark, and as his eyes adjusted, he saw him unfolding a knife.

Reverent fingertips on my wing, unfolding it, holding it away from my body.

I merely happen to think there is a pattern unfolding, perhaps even one that hit you like a bolt of lightning to get your attention.

Is it so difficult to accept I have nothing to do with whatever is unfolding in your life?

This pattern was unfolding in such a way that his normally peaceful state was altered into one of confusion.

Those marble shapes then seemed to quiver, And their fair limbs to float in motion, Like weeds unfolding in the ocean.

She had promised him that their unfolding gifts would make them greater than the gods.

But he knew no way to find her, no way to get beyond the ironic fact that his own anxious emotion was an apparent limit on those half-known unfolding powers.

It was another kind of Unfolding, a terrible one, sure of its power and uncaring.

Whether a godly man ever experienced that Unfolding or not was a question.