The tempi on this occasion were almost uniformly too slow, and so all the finesse of expression that was here and there lavished upon a phrase counted for nothing.
While interesting, this rate of improvement is almost certainly too slow to be useful on a satellite platform.
The problem here is both a literal one and a figurative one: "oscillation" is almost certainly too slow a process for the sort of rhetorical motions we actually see in metamodern art, and moreover the metaphor of oscillation suggests a horizontal rather than vertical relationship between ideas that really isn't reflective of metamodernism either.
"Teleportation in principle could be done pretty quick," said Dr. David J. Wineland, head of the Colorado team, noting that directly moving atoms containing intermediate results would almost certainly be too slow.
"Verge," a 1997 piece for clarinet, violin and piano, had nine contrasting movements, short enough to be film soundtrack cues and each titled "almost too" something: fast, slow, mechanical, fractured, etc. "Frames," for cello and piano, sandwiched two emotive sections -- a forceful piano declaration and an imploring cello melody -- between "objective" passages with a clockwork repeated piano note.
In a voice almost too soft and slow to hear, he said, "You're tired of me?" "No, no, no!" I said, panicking, repeating what I'd said, explaining how much I respected him, apologizing..
He added that the reaction of the world to crises such as Ebola was "almost always behind the curve, too slow", but that the international community was now doing the right thing of by rapidly increasing aid efforts in Africa.
Though the growth is real -- nationally, scores have remained flat -- almost everyone would agree that this growth is too slow.
He slowed up at the end, almost too much.
