Sentence examples for slow passage from inspiring English sources

The shadow tree moves majestically, marking the slow passage of the sun.

This is a tale of waiting, of boredom and of the slow passage of time.

The Road to Oxiana, Robert Byron: The diary of a slow passage from England to Afghanistan.

In a long, slow passage, individual dancers are gently, dreamily lifted — an ambiguous image, of drowning or of rescue.

From the slow passage of the fish chunks in the water, we could see that the current had turned listless.

Sometimes, when their attention flagged, I would add a bit here and embellish a slow passage there.

Loose ends ceased to dangle; soft spots were smoothed away and slow passages tightened up.

Notes would be slightly bent in slow passages to exquisitely yearning effect.

I was dreading the slow passages, fearing my bowing arm would start to tremble.

The backup tracks use sustained, almost viscous keyboard chords, like the slow passages of 1970's progressive rock, punctuated by sputters of bass drum.

There are slow passages, and sequences that lean too hard on self-pity, but there are many more moments of crazy transcendence, plus a fart joke or two.