Sentences with phrase «glacial pace»

The plot moves at a very glacial pace, and so patience is certainly required.

Unfortunately, my wife and I are moving on our mortgage at a somewhat more glacial pace.

The major problem with the game, though, is that it suffers from absolutely glacial pacing.

The head - to - head mode was a fantastic inclusion, too — but even this wasn't enough to impress contemporary critics, many of whom were bemused by the comparatively glacial pace of battle.

It's happening at an almost glacial pace, but the Conservative party are finally starting to wake up to the likelihood that Ed Miliband will be prime minister after the next election.

It was a rich vein of source material for Telltale, but also material wrapped around a first - person shooter framework, whose frenetic running and jumping and shooting are the polar opposite of the comparatively glacial pace of the adventure game.

After building a 40 - 29 lead with 3:45 remaining, Las Lomas slowed the already glacial pace, which allowed Jarod Wulbrun to get the Palo Alto offense back in gear.

For many this was the tipping point for Shyamalan, and the moment where his penchant for contrived twists and glacial pacing began to get irritating.

Less disappointing by some stretch is the Michael Fassbender - produced «Slow West,» a unique Western that certainly lives up to its title with a relatively glacial pace, but is gorgeously shot and climaxes with a set piece that all fans of the genre will really need to eventually see.

A really great cast and some fun writing and over-the-top action mean that it's certainly never boring but if you start to lose patience with its muddled and sometimes glacial pacing, no one would blame you.

The road - going Toyota C - HR was the slowest car our friends at Motor Trend tested in 2017, taking an agonizing 10.8 seconds to accelerate from 0 - 60 mph — and I had already experienced the compact crossover's glacial pace firsthand a few months ago.

By industry standards, the plant operates at a positively glacial pace, but who wants to hurry and cut corners when the customer base includes Queen Elizabeth II?

My impression is that pursuing an agent, and then the probably similarly glacial paced pursuit of a traditional publisher will get my book to the market in a few years (if ever).

The game does at least make light of this trade - off between rushed progression and world - building, with certain characters delivering dialogue at a deliberately glacial pace.

Once we stopped treating it like the game we thought it would be and gave in to the deliberate, at times glacial pace, we began to enjoy planning when and how to move our sub in anticipation of what the map had in store.

Audrey Zibelman has said from the outset that Reforming the Energy Vision will not only shake up the utility business model, but will begin implementation faster than the normal glacial pace of regulatory proceedings.

Ice sheets melt every Arctic summer, under the impact of extended sunshine, but the slush on the glaciers tends to freeze again with the return of the cold and the dark, and since under historic conditions glaciers move at the proverbial glacial pace, the loss of ice is normally very slow.

After a stint in the Middle East managing an NGO, she decided to return to her birthplace with hopes of contributing to growth there but was appalled with the lack of transparency, nepotism and glacial pace of many government initiatives.

Unlike the fierce model clip clop you normally see on runways, her girls took their, moving at an almost glacial pace.

The glacial pace of product approvals remains a hurdle for life sciences firms, but huge markets beckon anyway

In response to a shareholder question about what could be done to speed up the glacial pace of adoption of electric car production by other car companies, Musk said he was «playing with doing something fairly significant on this front which would be kind of controversial with respect to Tesla's patents.»

«It's at such a glacial pace, it's hilarious,» Bryce Doty, senior portfolio manager of fixed income at Sit Investment Associates, told CNBC's «Futures Now» recently.

Traditional agencies, incentivized to draw out app development schedules in order to generate billable hours, often work at a glacial pace even before demand for the developing app is gauged.

Business - to - business (B2B) vendor actions and reactions crawl at a glacial pace.

Adroitly exploiting the glacial pace of Canadian court proceedings, the theatre impresario for years delayed a final reckoning for his role in an audacious accounting fraud.

He left in 2006 to become the executive director of the Mountain Conservation Trust, a tiny outfit in Jasper, where, says Keller, «land conservation moved at a glacial pace.»

Unlike Target, which crashed and burned north of the border by going too big, too fast, Nordstrom is rolling out its Canadian presence at a glacial pace: six stores over three years.

The inspiration for Tezos came from watching the glacial pace at which Bitcoin evolves.

So The Glacial Pace Of Reduction, Although Technically «Tightening», Is Essentially Irrelevant.

I can already hear the complaints from the hard - money crowd about why this isn't good enough - the Federal Reserve is raising rates, but it's been at a glacial pace.

Unlike the growth of the workforce, which is mostly driven by demographic trends that are predictable and evolve at a glacial pace, productivity growth can change more quickly.

«True food trends move at kind of a glacial pace,» said Annika Stensson, director of research communications for the National Restaurant Association.

The casual fan isn't tuning in to watch Virginia — which continues to prove year in and year out that it's one of the best programs in the country — suffocate its opponent at a glacial pace.

He would not, however, shoulder the blame for the glacial pace of play that earned his threesome two warnings.

Of course, the league still wants to put a team in Los Angeles, but the glacial pace at which local officials are addressing the issues of finding an ownership group and building a new stadium indicates there probably won't be a team in that market until at least the turn of the century.

SAN ANTONIO — For years, we've poked fun at the glacial pace the NCAA and its member schools employ when faced with challenges that might require changes to the rules.

While Inter have not been completely dormant — the club have added Milan Skriniar, a backup keeper, Borja Valero, and a whole host of youth - side players during this window — they seem to be moving a glacial pace.

For some, this represents a breath of fresh air after the glacial pace of change under Labour.

NYC is sitting on more than 1,000 vacant lots that could be developed for housing, and is moving at a glacial pace to capitalize on the opportunity despite a housing crunch, Comptroller Scott Stringer charged.

The city is sitting on more than 1,000 vacant lots that could be developed for housing, and is moving at a glacial pace to capitalize on the opportunity despite a housing crunch, Comptroller Scott Stringer charged on Monday.

It compares highly favourably with the dismal, glacial pace of policy under Labour in its final years — unable to move forward with many decisions as a result of the inevitable exhaustion that sets in following a decade in power.

The comptroller also hit the mayor over what he claimed was the glacial pace of the recording devices» arrival in New York City.

The father moved the levers of state government at a glacial pace, weighing in with a marathon series of high - minded, in - depth discussions worthy of a Talmudic scholar that earned him the moniker of «Hamlet on the Hudson.»

The second stage of Lords reforms — removing all the hereditary peers and introducing an elected element to the upper house — moved at a glacial pace over the following decade.

Although policy implementation often moves at a glacial pace, moving through committee after committee, I am optimistic about positive change within the UC system in the near future.

Benner warns that the search for alternative life on Earth will probably move at a glacial pace.

Alas, the others capture little of geology beyond its glacial pace.

A radical model called string theory is supposed to add clarity by linking gravity and the rest of physics in one tidy set of equations, but that effort is proceeding at a glacial pace.

He also grew tired of the glacial pace of change in academia.

But it has yet to do so and, in general, adoption of fishing regulations proposed in the Commission's scientific working groups has moved at a glacial pace in the face of opposition from the powerful fishing industry.