Their acceptance conferred distinction upon the occasion and lent fraternal support to the slow awakening of the British deaf community.

For the rebels, it was like a slow awakening from restless dreams.

Through her ignorance and slow awakening, Edie has served as our surrogate, but in this scene she becomes something else, something other.

But this morning he lay in a somnolent peace, prolonging each gentle step of a slow awakening.

It was a slow, progressive awakening, marked at first by the extraordinary discovery that he was still alive.

It peered out at the slow awakening of a slumbering land.

There was a blank period of no-memory, like a black dreamless sleep, followed by a slow awakening to events too horrific to contemplate.

As Mike had said, it would be a slow awakening .

No matter the slow awakening: suddenly this.

It was a slow awakening after a week of alarms rung by Van Gundy.