Sentence examples for slow words from inspiring English sources

"Melmotte himself would speak a few slow words...always indicative of triumph, and then everybody would agree to everything, somebody would sign something, and the board...would be over".

One of her covers, tellingly, was Bobby Troup's "Meaning of the Blues," and she modeled it after Carmen McRae's version: a sustained hit of moodiness, slow words stretching from beginning to end with no gaps, and over in less than three minutes.

In "The Way We Live Now," published in 1875, Anthony Trollope describes a board meeting at the company run by the fraudster Melmotte: "Melmotte himself would speak a few slow words... always indicative of triumph, and then everybody would agree to everything, somebody would sign something, and the 'Board'... would be over".

Instead, we found more activation for sequential than simultaneous delivery when response times were both fast (letterstrings) and slow (words; see Fig. 2).

How beautiful must have been the first slow word.

This is the part that's harder to measure with healthcare.gov benchmarks; its political power may be more of a slow, word-of-mouth revelation.

By Frances Frost The New Yorker, September 20 , 1930 P. 21How beautiful must have been the first slow word View Article By Larissa MacFarquhar By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By Jason Hayes.

"If they were going to strip us from our thoughts, from our identity, if their aim was to kill us that way, we told them here was our flesh and bones," he said, one slow word at a time, "But they couldn't take away our thoughts".

The idea of consuming less, but better, media of a "slow word" or "slow media" movement is a strategy journalism should adopt.

Slow word recognition is the major characteristic of dyslexia in transparent orthographies (e.g., de Jong & van der Leij, 2003; Ziegler & Goswami, 2005).

Or, underdeveloped spelling/sound connections might allow for a greater influence of semantic information on slow word-recognition processes (Plaut & Booth, 2000).