Sentence examples for strange slow from inspiring English sources

It is a material process, surfing over matter like a strange, slow wave.

"I played against Toulon and all the points were kicks and it was a very strange, slow game.

The unfortunate byproduct is that players look as though they're alternately stroking and spanking an invisible pony with one hand then making strange, slow waving gestures with the other.

It's a strange, slow way of writing, taking three steps back in time for every one forward, and it relies far more heavily on the author's imagination than on any independent input from the reader.

"You guys are screwing up my system!" one woman from Bay Ridge was heard to yell upon discovering that her deft two-train transfer had been shot all to pieces and she would now have to board a strange, slow train called the M, with a depressing brown color scheme.

David Cronenberg has long been a favourite of Cannes, and his new film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novella Cosmopolis, follows a billionaire Wall Street trader on his strange, slow and frequently impeded journey through Manhattan in a lumberingly unmanoeuvrable stretch limo.

2. Japan Shudders A strange slow-motion earthquake was documented this year in the Nankai Trough, off the southeast coast of Japan, where the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate converge.

He also played some music from his coming orchestral album, "Emotion and Commotion" (Atco) (including Puccini's aria "Nessun Dorma" and a version of Jeff Buckley's "Corpus Christi Carol"); throughout, he used combinations of slide and volume pedal, making vocalizations amid strange slow-motion ballads that might have been beautiful in sparer settings.

There have been occasional flare-ups since, with a strange slew of low-budget crap in 2003, and now Eli Roth's revival, which given what's come before surely has to be neutered in some way if it ever wants a chance of reaching cinemas.

It's a strange film, slow and a little thin, but beautifully filmed and the performances are terrific – especially from Wise, who makes Ruskin's rejection of his wife and adherence to his mother (Julie Walters) skin-crawlingly creepy.

Calm rained upon us, and a strange peace slowed our hearts.