It didn't help that I'd cupped her breast in my hands at some point in our slow collision.

The Lowell continued on its course, heading for what appeared would be a slow collision with the near wall.

Now the trees began to roll into each other, in a vast, slow, noisy collision.

Rodi watched a horde of craft using cherry-red beams to herd a star, an orange giant, into a soft, slow collision with the Ring.

It was a slow collision, but Pham heard one of the landing pods cracking.

And there was a spiral heartbreakingly like her own Galaxy - undergoing a slow, stately collision with a shallow elliptical; the galaxies' discs had cut across each other, and along the line where they merged exploding stars flared yellow-white, like a wound.

The Lynx and the Rix ship became two stately clouds nearing a slow collision.

But really, have you ever seen an image that lingers in the mind quite like those two big bears having it off like a slow collision between two white vans?

Ms. Liszt, a modern-dance choreographer from Charlottesville, Va., takes walks, pauses, slow and gentle collisions and standing still and makes them suggest purpose and meditative thought.

During the long, slow collision , stars of both galaxies were torn from their orbits and scattered in a vast halo: some were even ejected with sufficient velocity to escape into intergalactic space, doomed to wander forever, companionless.