(It takes a loooong time to read the "Excruciatingly Slow Acknowledgments").
The confirmed knowledge that a loved one is dead enables the bereaved to begin what Freud called the work of mourning: the slow and painful acknowledgment that the person lost has been removed irrevocably from our world.
The NCAA is experimenting with a 30-second shot clock during the National Invitation Tournament this year, an acknowledgment that slow play is clearly an issue.
Acknowledging the "bankruptcy of Marxism" (Julia Kristeva), the "collapse of Marxism" (Brian Barry), or less enthusiastically, the "theoretical defeat of the Left" (Slavoj Zizek), has now become a commonplace of contemporary political theory, but it was an acknowledgment that was slow in coming.
They come out to the show to get fucked up on drugs and alcohol and bang their heads—not as a distraction, but as a joyful acknowledgment of the slow-motion apocalypse unfolding before us.
It concludes on a note of resolve grounded in the acknowledgment that historical change can be a long, slow process.
(The last line of the season premiere — Cyrus, the chief of staff, uttering a slow "Oh my God" — read like Ms. Rhimes's sly acknowledgment of the secret of her success).
In [5], three negative effects of packet reordering are identified: unnecessary fast retransmissions triggered by an increase in the number of gap reports, a slow increase of cwnd due to the lack of cumulative TSN acknowledgements, and an increase of acknowledgment traffic due to immediate delivery of SACKs when out-of-order data are detected at the receiver end.
No notion whatsoever that we might have slow growth because we're reducing the deficit too fast; no acknowledgment that the empirical case for debt panic has collapsed.
The first official acknowledgment was two weeks in coming, and anger at the slow response fuelled growing protests in cities across the country.
