Sentence examples for a slow fuse from inspiring English sources

Many of the risks they face are on a slow fuse.

We don't expect our books to be immediate hits; a great book can have a slow fuse.

Mr. Weiss also wrote "A Slow Fuse: New Poems" (Macmillan, 1984) and "A Sum of Destructions" (Louisiana State University Press, 1995), as well as several other poetry collections.

Though a bit disappointed with the "conspiracy" story, Sfscope.coms Sarah Stegall nevertheless called the episode "well-crafted," enjoyed the Peter-Olivia moments, praised Torv's performance, and said Akiva Goldsman "gave us an episode built like a slow fuse: tightly wound, coiling out of sight, and finishing big.

It feels less like a puzzle than like a slow-fuse meditation on the nature of death itself — with or without the Rapture.

Also joining in today is Melissa Morgan, a staff writer who, with an owl's deadpan stare, can roll a slow-fuse punch line onto the table like a grenade.

Behaviorism, as a means of animal training, had a long, slow fuse.

The dynamic nature of the largely riverine and geologically active Central American landscape relative to the East African Great Lakes could have enforced a relatively slow fuse on the explosive diversification rate of CA Heroines.

Late Monday night, in the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, N.C., Barack Obama's long, slow fuse burned to an end.

"Our latest scenario analysis suggests an exit probability of around 67%." In a reference to the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers – the spark that detonated global recession – Megan Greene, chief economist of the Canadian asset management firm Manulife, said: "Grexit would be a Lehman-type event, but with a much slower fuse".

He also lit the slow fuse that will eventually become the inferno that consumes the union.