glacial

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The film is so committed to its rigors — the two-person cast, the glacial camera pivots, the moody lighting — that it teeters on the line of becoming monotonous.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

However, French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the glacial pace of peace negotiations, saying he was "very sceptical" about the possibility of achieving "peace in the short term" in Ukraine.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

But "the largest AI companies deploy capabilities at a pace that makes 18-month legislative cycles look glacial," Patience said.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

“It’s going to be a glacial, tectonic thing but it will be a thing,” said Anders Schelde, chief investment officer of the Danish pension fund AkademikerPension.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

The map showed just three tarns in those mountains, remnant glacial ponds, all off the trail, but otherwise no indication of water at all.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson