1. Other forces glacially silent and immovable, have prevented action.

2. That's true in temperate regions, where glaciers—glacially—flow downhill. Over thousands of years, the frozen masses can scrape miles off of mountains.

3. Web shopping can be glacially slow, and the site difficult to navigate.

4. Instead of happening kind of glacially, you're on the beach right where the water is coming in and it's constantly changing the way the sand is laid out, " he said.

5. Like traffic caught in rush hour, freeway construction moves glacially -- especially when well-organized locals try to spike it.

6. However, the natural law governing committees soon took hold and progress was glacially slow.

7. Dried and shriveled cacti trunks dot a bleak lava landscape so broken with razor-sharp edges that moving across it is glacially slow.

8. And that is only a start, because the NASD system is glacially slow, reporting prices with a 30-minute delay.

9. Last year's winner, Hannah, gave Riggs a snarl, but he kept his cool, plodding down the runway both gracefully and glacially.