What is "unhurried"

Usage examples of "unhurried".

The running out of the guns was an unhurried affair, and the loading was all dumb show The tubs of slow-match were set to both sides, even though the larboard guns were still bowsed tight against the ports.

There were no potmen or maids that Temar could see, just an unhurried matron filling a steady flow of jugs brought by men and women in sombre, well-worn clothes who either sat near by or disappeared into the back of the building.

The movements of a judoka seem unhurried, his victim will appear to cooperate submissively in the performance of the throw.

Linda watched the sure but unhurried movement of the Rebels as they prepared for battle.

His scent would whisper to her of his Standi plains, of home and peace, while his breathing, steady and unhurried, spoke of calm power and untapped vigor.

From out of the mist bank the high unhurried swells marched in towards the bright yellow sands and the tall wave-cut Cliffs of Namaqualand.

Waldo continued with unhurried skill, his finger motions within his waldoes exerting pressure which would need to be measured in fractions of ounces, but the two sets of waldoes, paralleled to him thousands of miles below, followed his motions accurately and with force appropriate to heavy work at hand.

In Singapore, too, Andrew and Celia had boarded the Santa Isabella for an unhurried journey through the South China Sea and into the Pacific, a journey which was ending in Hawaii, here and now.

The ship's phone had thumped, and Benn heard the robot's unhurried drawl.

Then I tried to imagine him climbing patiently up throught the darkeness in his zoris and unly tourist shirt, bland and unhurried.

He intended this distant ship to suppose that an unhurried convoy slowly heading east by south, often peaceably gossiping alongside, would carry straight on to Callao, and he did not intend to make the signal to part company until the stranger's topgallants were out of sight even from the main jack-crosstrees.

Walking in an unhurried fashion up and down the street were more crowds of overweight tourists in boisterous clothes, with cameras bouncing on their bellies, consuming ice creams, cotton candy and corn dogs, sometimes simultaneously, and wearing baseball caps with plastic turds jauntily attached to the brim.

His rich, unhurried baritone reminded Arkady that while the ice sheet might be moving south in the Bering Sea, in Georgia they were still pressing grapes, and on the Black Sea ferry boats were still filled with the last tourists of the year.

Gradually a sense of peace settled like a mantle over Mark, and he sat down, his back against the rough hole of a fever tree, and slowly, without sense of urgency, he selected and lit a cigarette, drawing the smoke with an unhurried breath and then letting it trickle out through his nostrils, watching the pale blue tendrils rise and swirl on the lazy air.

Khmers in the highest political echelons took cafe filtre and croissants in the cool and unhurried splendour of the Hotel le Royal's dining room each morning just as if they were in the centre of Parisian culture instead of in its brackish backwater bay ten thousand miles away.