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Slow motion

noun

A movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate.

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"Slow motion" Quotes from Famous Books

... this great swarm of minor planets is, that till recently none of them showed a disk to the telescope. Inasmuch as only their light was visible, they were indistinguishable from stars, except by their slow motion. A hundred years ago only three hundred and fifty had been discovered; our photographic star-charts have since then shown the number recorded to exceed ...

— A Journey in Other Worlds • J. J. Astor

... a day pass more slowly; the sun seems to have forgotten himself; he has yet such a course to run before he reaches his bed, that I believe he will never accomplish it; his slow motion drives ...

— The Love-Tiff • Moliere

... lady is by, we will not speak of your fears," said the earl, with a slow motion of the hand. "Clara, you will find your—Lady Hope. She will, perhaps, be glad to hear that ...

— The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals • Ann S. Stephens

... noses down a small slope. Once they heard a thundering noise far away to the east. It sounded like a cannon shot, but probably was only the immense inland ice "calving." When the ice during its constant but slow motion towards the coast slides out into the sea, it is lifted up by the water and is broken up into huge, heavy blocks and icebergs which float about independently. When these pieces break away the inland ice ...

— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin

... my readers must be generally aware that glaciers are masses of ice in slow motion, at the rate of from ten to twenty inches a day, and that the stones which are caught between them and the rocks over which they pass, or which are embedded in the ice and dragged along by it over those rocks, are of course subjected to a crushing and grinding power altogether ...

— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin

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