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slow burn

noun as in indignation

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Fourteen itemized complaints, most concerning fiscal matters, are presented with sobriety, plus a slow burn of understandable anger.

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That slow burn, with its attendant low hum of fear and anxiety, is achieved onstage largely through misdirection.

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But for the audience, those sentiments more accurately reflect Ramsay’s film, a slow burn that exhausts its welcome and dies in a blaze after losing its grip on a meandering narrative.

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However, “that will be a slow burn.”

Its ascent to the pinnacle of tech success began as something of a slow burn in 1993, when Huang, 62, launched the company alongside Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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