slow burn
Example Sentences
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This relationship has been a slow burn for so many years, and so many people have an attachment and hopes for how it would come to a close.
From Los Angeles Times
It ended with a slow burn, as the U.S.
From MarketWatch
The story of her disintegrating marriage to fellow writer Murray Bail makes for a slow burn of suspense and readerly alarm.
The author’s slow burn of the tragic chronology, from Mulholland’s famous “There it is. Take it” quote when he unleashed water from the Owens Valley in 1913 to slake the city’s thirst, to how L.A. quickly forgot the disaster, compounds hubris upon hubris.
From Los Angeles Times
Fourteen itemized complaints, most concerning fiscal matters, are presented with sobriety, plus a slow burn of understandable anger.
From Los Angeles Times
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