His jaw apparently glued to his shoulder, he moves at first with halting spasmodic steps.
When the wood lice are placed in humid air, they move at first, but any activity they exhibited soon ceases and they become quiet.
You may not see them moving at first, but if you leave the room and come back after a few minutes you'll notice that something is different.
Barely moving at first, she begins the narration of the life of an unnamed Girl, from the age of two to 20.
After the overturn, Dr. Fujii was so stupefied and so tightly squeezed by the beams gripping his chest that he was unable to move at first, and he hung there about twenty minutes in the darkened morning.
"The big companies were slow to move at first, but now everyone is incubating new businesses inside of them," said Joichi Ito, president and founder of Neoteny, an incubator backed by Whitney & Company.
She doesn't move at first, but then, before I dare repeat the greeting, she turns slowly, as if to see where something frightening had come from, and says 'so it's you'.
(Those entertaining small-town goofballs! Sigh.) But with catchy and impressively varied music by Stephen Hoffman and lyrics by Mark Campbell that are both generally clever (the Sondheim influence on both men is apparent), it is remarkably moving at first.
