slow burn
Example Sentences
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“But instead of said hyperscaler slow burn, it’s zoom to the second-order impact of ‘AI disruption’ already hitting bottom lines.”
From MarketWatch
Its 177-minute running time and unhurried pace may test some viewers’ patience, but the slow burn makes the case for how various indignities visited on a subjugated people can, over time, turn even generally pacific individuals into warriors.
It’s a slow burn that draws one in steadily, thanks largely to Édouard Molinaro’s coolly patient direction and Jean Desailly’s extraordinarily controlled performance as a married but repressed schoolteacher who may have murdered the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of his wife’s girlhood friend.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.