lingeringly

I'd like to have a relationship with his child, and for my children to know their cousin, but contact with my brother is always deeply, lingeringly awful.

Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly; “A long time ago” came out like the saddest cadence of a funeral hymn.

In a Walton novel, it's frequently unclear whether the characters' situations are real, whether their actions are just or unjust, and yet, each tale resolves in way that is utterly satisfying and lingeringly curious.

She pulled him closer, drawing him into her gaze, until their faces met and she kissed him lightly, lingeringly on the lips.

Many of McFarland’s hipper-than-thou recruits here are circumspect about their role in all this; some laugh it off, some are lingeringly disturbed and some — like Ja Rule — seem to have entirely shed any responsibility whatsoever.