glacial• I am thinking geologic time, or at the very briefest, glacial.• In spite of the glacial air conditioning and his recentbath, his face was covered with sweat.• Davis, himself, paved the way for this when he admitted the existence of arid and glacialcycles of erosion.• Attempts to light a fire in the glacial dining-room had to be abandoned when it smoked out the house.• Some unnecessarily trickycamera work early on is taxing, as is the film's glacialpace.• But we are no longer limited by the glacial rate of naturalgeneticinnovation.• It was decided to flood the glacialvalley of Vyrnwy at the south-western end of the Berwyn Mountains.