"Watermelon Music," to a recorded score by Philip Glass, was filled with slow sinking, rising and bending movements.

H. Lee Scott Jr.'s responsibility, to stay on top of the well-oiled Wal-Mart colossus, is hardly the staggering challenge facing Charles C. Conaway as he moves to halt a slow sinking at Kmart.

If he struggled and failed, his demise at least would have been fairly comfortable--just a slow sinking into eternal sleep.

Just a slow sinking into the earth?

The slow sinking of the land made the drainage infrastructure increasingly ineffective.

This slow sinking caused by the loss of effect of the salve was allowing them to descend in moderate fashion, and just might bring them safely to ground.

As sea levels rose over the centuries, due to the slow sinking of the south-east of England, the marshes gradually retreated inland.

There were no slow sinkings on an aircraft, no dramatic speeches from the captain, no leisurely good-byes or farewell toasts.

The darkness was clammy in its thickness; that steady gurgle, combined with the slow sinking of the floor, would have caused the average adventurer to wish he had remained on shore.

The zo-odori dances, usually for the ensemble here, accelerate the basic slow sinking and bending step of the classical dancers.