Slowness

Examples

• That natural selection generally act with extreme slowness I fully admit. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Hermione lifted it down with delicate slowness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This was not the repose of actual stagnation, but the apparent repose of incredible slowness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Having indulged in this imaginary peregrination for some considerable interval, she became impressed with a sense of the intolerable slowness of time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Who knows but what we might be better employed putting the town into a state of defense than massacring people with this slowness and brutality. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• High into bending and swaying branches he was borne with what seemed to him incredible swiftness, while Tarzan chafed at the slowness of his progress. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Typist: Shelley