But there are a number of stories here that show Proulx at her marvellous best, uncovering the slow, dull traditions of small-town life as they are exposed to harsh circumstance and intrusive modernity.
Batsmen will no longer have to walk a gamut of smoke through the Long Room as they make their way from the dressing room to the pavilion steps.Such is the slow, tradition-bound pace of life at Lord's.
A few years ago you would struggle to find more than a couple of places approximating the low and slow traditions of American pig-smoking, be it ribs, tips, shoulders or links and all other bits in between.
The first movement, opening with a slow introduction (a tradition since the days of Haydn), incorporates three contrasting themes (the third introduced toward the conclusion of the movement) as well as the opening dramatic figure of the introduction.
While rich in characters and incident, they are best remembered for their almost palpable atmosphere of inertia: in a far-future civilization exhausted by the weight of its past, only the slow decay of tradition can lay the groundwork for a new beginning.
Unsurprisingly, he faced universal derision in the land that prides slow food and tradition beyond all other cuisines.
So, while we are far from Orthodox, I thought we were doing ok with our slow return to tradition.
Academic governance is often painfully slow, and sometimes tradition trumps common sense when innovation stalls in the name of process.
There's something about it that connects with the renewed interest in mindfulness, or slow food – those traditions.
Initially caution and tradition slowed the interest in night baseball, but the obvious commercial benefits of playing when fans were not at work eventually won out.
Clerical designs are bound to tradition and slow to change.
