sedately

After an explosive start, Shahidi played sedately through the middle of the innings, making sure to keep up with the run rate without taking unnecessary risks.

Thanks to those efforts, scientists now have a somewhat better picture of Dinkinesh, which is shaping up to be an intriguing little space rock: rich in silica, roughly oblong and sedately spinning, with an estimated diameter of circa 900 meters and a day about twice the length of Earth’s 24-hour diurnal period.

I’m older now and not big on crowds, so my wife and I celebrate more sedately.

I left them there, resting sedately under the shade of a tall ash tree, far off into the woods, out of sight of anyone driving by.

Prior to the launch of JWST, no one knew if galaxies could even form so early in the universe’s 13.8-billion-year history, at a time when matter was thought to still be sedately coalescing into the gravitationally bound clumps required to give birth to large groups of stars.