Its peculiar blue-green water, called glacial milk, looks opaque because of the way light refracts off the silt and sediment it contains.
My thoughts turned to Ms. Dunaway and her glacial good looks because an image from "Bonnie and Clyde" was projected on the back wall of the set for the first third of this intermissionless, 85-minute show, which feels inordinately longer.
The so-called Grey Wethers (gray sheep), or Sarsen stones — the monoliths of many stone circles — still lie strewn over the slopes here, left behind by glacial action, looking like the rubble from some giant blast.
These particles of light are the fastest things in the universe, so an optical computer could theoretically process information at speeds that make even a supercomputer look glacial.
One photograph shows the subway being dug, seemingly at a rate that makes the Second Avenue subway's construction look glacial, but the first trains, a photograph reminds us, had cars reserved for women.
Usually a quick team, they looked glacial.
It's in heart of the Highlands, on the north-south watershed in the Cairngorms, at a glacial T-junction looking up towards the central massif.
Between visits to the acupuncturist for back spasms, Ewing has often looked glacial in this series but there he was, hitting the biggest basket of the game, lofting a sweet jumper over Alonzo Mourning in the third quarter after Miami had surged to within 51-50.
The milk-green waters beyond the salt pans look almost glacial, but the burning hot wind, the camels and dizzying mirages dispel the illusion.
With Miami on its way to New Jersey, it is finally time to ask whom the better bet would have been with the ball on fourth-and-2, or under most adverse circumstances — Favre or the man he displaced, Chad Pennington? When the Jets sorely needed a creative spark Sunday, a mobile soul, Favre looked painfully glacial, more one-dimensional than ever, an inviting target for Seahawks pass rushers.
