How To Use Slowness In A Sentence
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Mr Vermes, who was close to that research effort, finds good reason to criticise it for slowness and carelessness—but no ground to assert a conspiracy.
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Everything is done with exaggerated slowness, which seems a rather cheap way of adding profundity to some fairly simplistic ideas about war not being a very good thing.
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He looks the age and although his character still appears fit, his mannerisms have just a slight suggestion of slowness to them.
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I thought back to the comment you made to her about "stupidity and slowness."
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(That slowness to wake up and smell -- mixing metaphors here -- which way the wind is blowing has, of course, redounded to the good of actors demanding $20 million salaries.)
Seeing Stars in Hollywood and New York
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Unicef was just one of the international agencies in Durban promising to rectify the slowness of its response.
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The resulting slowness of cognition is a cardinal element of the pattern of impairment.
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The recorder came in with an adagio-like slowness and gravity, momentarily wobbled off-key, then recovered.
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The novel is built around Lennie, the character whose 'slowness' has most filtered into the American popular consciousness.
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But, as with our slowness to believe we are sinners, so we are slow to believe sin can really be redeemed.
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Initiated by the dancer in the center of the trio, the three performers reach their arms out to one another with a mechanical slowness.
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And that, in some cases at least, this cave residence ended a very long time ago, we are assured, for since then a great thickness of stalagmite, which is deposited with extreme slowness, has spread over the lower cave deposits and sealed them in.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution
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Inability to execute an intended action is known as apraxia, slowness and difficulty in doing it is dyspraxia.
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Then, with agonizing slowness, his head bent to hers and his lips met hers passionately.
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He realised that the slowness of this process would have very serious immediate implications for his business.
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The three main symptoms are tremors, rigidity and slowness of movement, although not everyone will experience all three.
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Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
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The actual speed produced by the motorbike is a speed of both slowness and fastness.
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Hard working often counterbalances slowness at learning.
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Book publishing is second only to furniture delivery in slowness.
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Yes, the slowness is something that needs to get worked on.
Wake-up call
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Rational Review
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It has many side effects, and an overdose can cause a dangerous slowness in breathing before victims fall into a coma.
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But in all this there is no difference between a physicist, a historian, and a philosopher; and again, slowness, want of skill, and even helplessness are something totally different from the peculiar kind of irresolution that Hamlet shows.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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All their statesmen learn the irresistibility of the tide of custom and have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception, and prehensility of tail.
VI. English Traits. Manners
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An occasional benevolent Christian complied with his request to the extent of a dig with a stout boot under the rib; but every now and then, the furibund jarvey apologised to us for the slowness of our course by asking -- "Won't I serve him out when
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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There commonly exists a great want of application, a slowness of intellect similar to the slowness of volition.
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There was impatience over the slowness of reform.
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This method is still sometimes used, but for uniform results, a platinum ball, which will not scale or change in weight, is necessary, and the cost of this ball, together with the slowness of the method, have rendered the practice obsolete, especially in view of modern developments in accurate pyrometry.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
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The Scottish Executive's slowness to bring in new rights led to accusations that ministers have been ‘got at’ by civil servants unsympathetic to the language.
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The tractor-trailer moved with excruciating slowness toward the lobby with its large expanse of plate-glass windows.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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Despite the difficulty of the task,and the slowness of the progress,the workers continued to plug away at it manfully.
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The slowness of historical change, the fact that any epoch always contains a great deal of the last epoch, is never sufficiently allowed for.
James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution
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The only reason we have had to fight to maintain these contrarian stances is the unprecedented slowness of the sea change that is developing.
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History can be cruel to such a geologic pace; this slowness is a recipe for vulnerability and nasty strategic surprise.
America’s Elegant Decline
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She also analogized "a certain slowness to architecture that we appreciate" to the Barnes visitor experience.
The Barnes in a New Light
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The girl's earnest effort counterbalanced her slowness at learning.
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I found its slowness wholly unsatisfactory.
Times, Sunday Times
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A Man For All Seasons has a delicate slowness about it, with the talkiness inherent in an adapted stage play.
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He established a firm in London, but it went bankrupt in 1732, probably due to the excessive slowness and complication of his method.
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She also analogized "a certain slowness to architecture that we appreciate" to the Barnes visitor experience.
The Barnes in a New Light
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Mr Vermes, who was close to that research effort, finds good reason to criticise it for slowness and carelessness—but no ground to assert a conspiracy.
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All their statesmen learn the irresistibility of the tide of custom, and have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception, and prehensility of tail.
English Traits (1856)
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Nor do I believe with General Sherman that its slowness on that occasion was due to anything "imbibed" from General Thomas.
Forty-Six Years in the Army
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On the left wing of the horse Virgil appeared, in shining armour, completely fitted to his body; he was mounted on a dapple-grey steed, the slowness of whose pace was an effect of the highest mettle and vigour.
The Battle of the Books
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Eighty miles, yet they were clear with the clearness that only altitudinous country can bring; alluring, fascinating, beckoning to him until his being rebelled against the comparative slowness of the train, and the minutes passed in a dragging, long-drawn-out sequence that was almost an agony to Robert Fairchild.
The Cross-Cut
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This frustration is compounded with the overall slowness of the game.
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We work to maintain self-respect, but instead the slowness of the government is going to force us onto the dole!
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I love the feeling of slowness and how a day can start off with a chilling coldness that melts into a strange half-warmness later on.
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This slowness is one of the reasons that Canada's growth rate in productivity lags behind other countries.
Creating Canada's Culture of Innovation: From Cradle to Career
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Several delegations, including that from Britain, expressed disappointment at the slowness of the progress.
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Slowness - bradykinesia (slow movement) and akinesia (inability to move) are common in people with Parkinson's disease.
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The slowness of the traffic irritated the passengers in a hurry.
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The opposite of high intellect is dullness or slowness, but the opposite of wisdom is foolishness, which is far more dangerous.
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Almost as if annoyed by my slowness, my father slid the coffee creamer over to me.
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The maddening slowness of enunciation and the monotony of intonation feel tired and false.
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Despite the difficulty of the task,and the slowness of the progress,the workers continued to plug away at it manfully.
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The girl's earnest effort counterbalanced her slowness at learning.
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He found the slowness of criminal trials particularly irksome and his attempts to speed them up did not find favour with the Bar.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main symptoms are muscle stiffness, slowness of movement, and involuntary tremor.
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Strive not to run like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.
Christian Morals
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The yardstick for gauging the inherent nobility of a character in major films these days is the slowness of the slow-motion in which their death is captured.
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The false accusation, coupled with what he called the "slowness" of the European Commission's response, prompted Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to announce today that he would demand "sufficient reparations" from the European Union.
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The colour drained away with immense slowness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result can be confusion , frustration, possibly bitterness and a resulting slowness to take decisions.
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He found the slowness of criminal trials particularly irksome and his attempts to speed them up did not find favour with the Bar.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main symptoms are muscle stiffness, slowness of movement and involuntary tremor.
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Huger had the look of a man prematurely aged, and his slowness may be explained by the despairing term "arteriosclerosis.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
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Despite the difficulty of the task,and the slowness of the progress,the workers continued to plug away at it manfully.
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The satellite gives very nice speed to the one computer, but the other four are slow, and the ISP is telling us what causes the slowness.
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This isn't the slowness of an old man for whom everything is running down.
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A moonship on the south side swayed, tottered, and fell with infinite slowness, struck at last and made the ground ring with her metal anguish.
Three Worlds To Conquer
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However, the slowness of the official channels, and Nicholas's desire to have all strings in his own hand, caused him to bypass the regular processes.
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With machine-like slowness a portion of the metal skin swung out and down to form a ramp.
The True Story of Flying Saucers « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
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Hs fatal fascination with the Arctic stems from his desire to find an environment suited to his peculiar slowness.
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On the contrary, a slow imagination maketh that defect or fault of the mind which is commonly called dullness, stupidity, and sometimes by other names that signify slowness of motion, or difficulty to be moved.
Leviathan
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You know the pessimists who write so much about our slowness, what they call our dullness, and sometimes our blunders; they would not be satisfied unless they had the news of a Waterloo with their porridge every morning for breakfast; then their appetites would still leave them hungry for a Trafalgar each day every month.
Australia's Part in the Scheme of Empire
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Every check and countercheck is used, which slowness of proceeding, or a repetition of it in other stages and under different forms, can effect.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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It seemed the slowness of the previous episodes might finally be rewarded with some return on my taxed patience.
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We emphasize the seeming slowness of wisdom as acquired by intellect in its finite journeying through finite existences.
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The result can be confusion , frustration, possibly bitterness and a resulting slowness to take decisions.
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Gait hypokinesia, characterized by slowness of movement, is one of the main movement disorders that affects Parkinson's patients and can have a major impact on quality of life.
RedOrbit News - Technology
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Across that implacable distance a train carrying a message would crawl with the slowness of a beetle.
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Sailing then into the Roman harbour, and the unhallowed sports being just about to close, the soldiers began to be annoyed at our slowness, but the bishop rejoicingly yielded to their urgency.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Slowness has to do with being able to remember, rather than obliterate or use revisionism to rewrite events.
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In the blogosphere, the slowness is taken as evidence of liberal bias.
Archive 2004-08-01
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Out comes a sheath of crisp, paper-wrapped dressings, and with what feels like an anciently learned slowness, she unpeels the tape on my chest, watching my face the whole time.
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When grassroots activists complained about the slowness of reform, he responded, "I don't care!"
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Gradually, with painful slowness, his reputation filtered out to European intellectuals on the lookout for new currents from the literary suburbs.
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An issue to consider is whether these patients have a slowness of thinking.
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This particular deficit involves slowness in the ability to name repeated familiar objects accurately.
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William's mouth met hers, so warm, so gentle, and he kissed her with a sensual slowness.
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She cackled on about the places we were about to see while with one aged hand she tiredly, and with excruciating slowness, tried to open the envelope that held the key to the first apartment.
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Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
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He knew that the federal project was hindered by terminal slowness.
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Our view of the political past was once formed with officially sanctioned slowness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dopamine-producing nerve cells in the basal ganglia die, causing slowness of voluntary movement as well as difficulty with balance and muscle rigidity.
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Flames will engulf your feet, roasting them with agonizing slowness while a grating metallic voice repeatedly says the name and slogan of a product.
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The voice-over narration feels, for the most part, unnecessary and irritating, and the maddening slowness of enunciation and the monotony of intonation feel tired and false.
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The work evokes an antiquated industrial machine, the slowness suggesting its imminent halt.
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Despite the difficulty of the task,and the slowness of the progress,the workers continued to plug away at it manfully.
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The anchor, which secured a ship, indicated slowness, while the dolphin expressed speed.
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In many areas, Down syndrome - or mongolism - is the most common form of mental slowness, or retardation.
1) Head Control and Use of Senses
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I’m getting more interested in slowness generally – I think it fosters creativity and insight.
2010 In Prospect « Tales from the Reading Room
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He, of course, noted her paralysis, but also noted an impairment in naming things and in verbal fluency, difficulties in expressing herself, in reading a paragraph and slowness in learning.
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For example, if sheep grazing on commonage lost their markings, quick traditional methods were to hand to allocate the animals and so avoid the creaky slowness of the law.
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It is by this noble slowness that the highest minds faintly emulate that inconceivable deliberateness and delicacy of gradation with which solar systems are built and worlds habilitated.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
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In slam poetry, speed is valued over slowness, as humour and attack are valued over emotion and thought.
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The colour drained away with immense slowness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Slowness influences not only Franklin's behaviour, but also his vision, his thought and his speech.
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Gait hypokinesia, characterised by slowness of movement, is one of the main movement disorders that affects Parkinson's patients and can have a major impact on quality of life.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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The bureaucratic and diplomatic cogs ground forward with agonising slowness.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Unless they observe other areas of 'slowness' in their child, parents may hesitate to seek advice.
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The _means_ of the hare in the fable for the race (that is, her swiftness) _secured_ her; the defects of the tortoise (her slowness) proved her
Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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worked with painful slowness
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The guy seems to care so little about his work here that he fails to believably: type on a keyboard (re: his character is a professional writer), urgently ride a bicycle in a downpour (again, he does this with inexplicable la-di-da slowness), and talk at a GPS with any semblance of a person who is frustrated.
Movie Review: Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer is Terrible (This Review Includes an Exclusive Note from Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghost) | /Film
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A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness: and a good reply or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness.
The Essays
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Symptoms range from slowness of movement, stiffness of the body and limbs, and tremors.
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Instead of dying, he thrashes about a bit, then reaches with stilted slowness for his inner breast-pocket.
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The result can be confusion , frustration, possibly bitterness and a resulting slowness to take decisions.
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Strive not to run like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.
Christian Morals
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In slam poetry speed is valued over slowness, as humor and attack are valued over emotion and thought.
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The two main whines were about the danger to civilians and the slowness of the operation, but there was very little intelligent discussion of the intimate connection between these two.
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He also deplored the slowness of the courts where judgements were awaited for a year or more and he signified his intention to express his dissatisfaction to the Minister for Justice.
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The causes of the slowness of the progress in expressing in articulate words what is understood and desired, on the part of normal children, is not, however, to be attributed, as it has often been, to a slower development of the expressive motor mechanism, but must be looked for in the difficulty of establishing the connection of the various central storehouses of sense-impressions with the intercentral path of connection between the acoustic speech-centers and the speech-motorium.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
