What is "slow-motion"

Usage examples of "slow-motion".

Jameson, seeing the whole thing in the slow-motion vision of stimulated adrenals, irrelevantly admired the unbroken rhythm of the Cygnan running pattern as he shifted from four legs to three to two.

Abby peered with interest at the open file drawers, stacks Of folders, piles of receipts and the slow-motion geometric shapes of the screen saver floating across the computer monitor.

As if in horrorstruck inevitable slow-motion I waited helplessly for the crash.

It was in this awkward positionme spread-eagled on my stomach, Brant handcuffed and moaning in the hall, Selma angling herself into position to blow my head off if she could manage itthat I chanced to look up at her, watching in slow-motion amazement as she screwed up her face, closed her eyes, turned her head, and squeezed the trigger.

Picture your gut chakra opening in a slow-motion explosion of sausage-casing small intestine.

He let his expression change ever so slightly, and in that moment Azov’s did too… mutual dismay, a moment which lasted too long, slow-motion, alcohol-fumed, with Jacoby a third unwilling participant.

He arose without haste, stepped to the slow-motion figure “Bloo-hwoo-fwaa-mawwing” behind the desk, took out a heavy sap, and scientifically smote Orel across the brow, concussing the frontal lobes and stunning the jaunte center.

Every movement forced a countermovement from the weightless behemoth, and so, when the stupid thing brought its club high overhead for a mighty chop, the energy lifted the giant from the ground and tuned it right over in midair, a slow-motion somersault.

It began with sweet, languorous flexings, with long and easy thrusts, with soft contractions and lazy expansions of the muscles, an almost slow-motion rising and falling and stroking, as of lovers in an art film, which had a sweetness and an odd shyness, as if we were joined for the very first time.

A small puff of greyish smoke drifted out of the ash grove as if someone had tossed a dirty cauliflower out of it in slow-motion.

As if from very far away Yoke felt the slow-motion jolting of her body falling from the Barcelona chair.

Frank grinned and arced a slow-motion swing toward his teasing pal, but in a flash Chet was on his feet, twirling his coonskin cap.

Federation justice was thought to be swift and tough but it was a slow-motion replay compared to what happened when these dinks got on your case.

I won't say he whirled round, for in a heavy diving suit at that depth the tempo of movement becomes slowed down to that of a slow-motion film.

With a slow-motion sense of arrested time, Coyote saw the gleaming gold cartridge stuck in the G3's mud-caked ejection port, saw the Korean officer drawing his pistol and raising it in both hands.