Sentence examples for absurdly slow from inspiring English sources

Another failure has been the absurdly slow, and sometimes partial, operation of India's judicial system.

By the standards of a road marathon or a 10-kilometer race, that is absurdly slow — about 5.2 miles per hour, even taking into account nocturnal moose entanglements.

It's absurdly slow and inefficient for injured patients, taking an average of five years to settlement and consuming over 50 percent of awards in attorneys' fees and administrative costs.

I had been trying to get hold of her for days, but cell-phone service has been cut, and Internet access, which is absurdly slow in the best of times in Iran, has been restricted to three unpredictable hours a day.

Absurdly slow progress by any standard.

The absurdly slow flow of government and insurance money to homeowners was compounded by the official evaluation of damaged homes based on pre-Katrina value, not the cost of reconstruction.

Later, the artist Mike Starn (who, with his brother Doug, created Big Bambú, the web-like sculpture on the Metropolitan Museum's roof last year) stepped up to sample a pair of upside-down goggles, but only after signing a waiver, as guests had been doing at the installations all night, even at the absurdly slow-moving carousel.

And yet Julie Walters has an absurdly large slew, a clutch, of worldwide red-carpet awards for her acting – Baftas and Emmys and a random Olivier or two simply piled up from 1980 (Educating Rita) onwards – and is 61, and not blonde, nor particularly leggy nor predicated to flashing her chest.

"Absurdly moved" by a prostitute in pink, she slows down then speeds away, realizing that both she and the prostitutes are foreign.

The pitch, popularized in the 1930s and '40s by the Pirates' Rip Sewell, is known for its absurdly high trajectory and incredibly slow speed.

The slow-poached octopus was almost absurdly tender, having arrived live at the restaurant that morning and apparently massaged to death.