Except for the prologue, in fact, all action takes place in outer space, though that does not prevent the occasional appearance of a stuffed goose or swan, winging slowly past on wires.
A startled great blue heron lifted off, its long legs dangling, its vast wings beating slowly.
The thick, viscous oil is needed so that the scaled-up wings, flapping slowly, will react the same way as smaller, one-millimeter-long fruit fly wings beating rapidly in the air.
They perch among us, on chain-link fences, clotheslines still blurred from the just-hung weight of clothes, windowsills, the hood of a faded-blue Chevy, their wings folding slowly, as if being put away, before snapping once, into flight.
He then spreads his wings and slowly approaches the female.
Behind the glass of the picture window, cornflower blue wings flap slowly beneath the balloon of a muslin-covered zeppelin.
Wings grew slowly, but by the end of the 1970s had become one of the major musical attractions of the decade, with a slew of memorable hits and world tours under its span.
In general, larger birds are expected to flap their wings more slowly than smaller birds of comparable wing morphology.
In a corner of the paediatrics wing, panting slowly in the heat, lies one-year-old Atanimatang Atanimatang.
