The framework of plate tectonics explains that our present-day continents are parts of what was once one enormous supercontinent, ripped apart as pieces of earth's crust move apart from each other on flows of immensely slow-moving beds of mantle.
He understands acutely that recovery here demands four-corners patience, that it can be slow and immensely frustrating but ultimately rewarding.
Four middle-aged women, all members of the fast-disappearing Venetian lace industry, performed a tableau of the magi; a younger group of women animated a fierce, noisy, boisterous scenario of Christ's entry into Jerusalem; parents and children cradled each other in a variety of pietá and most movingly a single elderly women performed a slow and immensely dignified dance of the crucifixion.
As a student, I attended seminars and master classes given by 11 women who were immensely instrumental in sparking a slow increase in active female composers; the woman-composer question came up, and they each answered it in their own way.
There is a murder, and there is a solution, but what this thoughtful, slow-paced and immensely readable novel is really about is the effect that crimes, both small and large, have on the community.
Slow-moving but immensely powerful, it gives birth to life-stunting winds and nourishing rivers.
But before they're gobbled up, the worlds will be subjected to a slow, tortuous death, becoming immensely hot, boiled, and stretched into egg shapes.
If you have a lot of programs running in the background (otherwise known as "bloatware") it can slow down your system immensely.
Since Animal Jam uses a lot of processing power, opening and using it on two different tabs can slow your computer down immensely.
The ruck was unbelievably slow and that benefitted them immensely.
Clearly the rate of evolution of these two paralogues must have been immensely greater soon after they diverged and slowed down dramatically by the time cyanobacteria evolved.
