slowness

Example Sentences

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I asked Professor Brown as she came over to help the technician remove the probes from my left leg with a painstaking slowness that set my teeth on edge.

From Literature

However, critics accused the institution of a lack of transparency and slowness.

From BBC

Since moving back to Northern Ireland, Jeffers has particularly valued the "slowness and sense of community".

From BBC

Miss Mortimer picked up her spoon and stirred her tea with exquisite slowness.

From Literature

Such tool use—notably hand letter-cutting in stone, producing forms like those we see on traditional monuments—stands for “materiality, for slowness, for permanence” in the face of boardroom brainstorming and assembly-line production.

From The Wall Street Journal