Because the south wall was a load-bearing wall, the damage started what was essentially a slow-motion collapse.

The measure was partly lifted, but the risk of a slow-motion collapse remains.

And slow-motion collapses evoked the horror of slaughter.

And everyone was scanning the news these days-watching the endless slow-motion collapse of civilization, like some ghastly soap opera.

"Do we have the determination to confront the slow-motion moral collapse that has taken place in parts of our country these past few generations," he asked.

The reason for this slow-motion collapse, he suspected, was her lost baby.

No one knows if the Tokyo Stock Exchange will return to what it was before its slow-motion collapse.

But these days, he is becoming better known as the head of an empire in slow-motion collapse -one that might become Australia's largest business failure.

Terry hooked the burly optimist in the middle, doubling him into slow-motion collapse.

The slow-motion collapse is captured in the surreal atmosphere created by the third stanza.