Sentence examples for awfully slow from inspiring English sources

That seems awfully slow.

"Bilbo's 'unexpected journey' is awfully slow to start," he wrote.

"It's awfully slow at the moment," he said with a shrug.

FOR a country whose recent presidents all suffered at the hands of the military regime that ruled from 1964 to 1985, Brazil has been awfully slow to probe that dark chapter of its history.

Breaking into publishing is difficult, but the endeavor has been "an awfully slow burn" so far, said Jonah Weiland, executive producer of Comic Book Resources, a Web site about graphic novels.

They have not acted precipitately in Iraq, they have not granted a blank check to the auto companies, and they have shown impressive open-mindedness and adaptability in addressing the crisis in the banking sector even if they have been awfully slow to arrive at a credible final policy.

That's awfully boring".

"He gets awfully aggressive, and sometimes he needs to slow that down a bit and stay down in the zone," Johnson said of Harvey.

As for the livelier acts, audiences can be frustratingly slow to ignite – but then, those seats really are awfully comfortable.

For a guy running as a chief exec applying proven private-sector solutions, his campaign looks awfully like an unreformable government bureaucracy: big, bloated, overstaffed, burning money, slow to react, and all but impossible to change.

They can be awfully long, his delivery rather low-key, and his talking points often follow a slow-windup-then-slower-let-down pattern.