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  • "This Could Be Love," a winning slow-burner, is closer to the feeling of some of Hathaway's classics, and serves as yet another showcase for her buttery vocals with a beautiful background arrangement.

    Marlynn Snyder: Lalah Hathaway: Looking Back, To Keep Moving Forward Marlynn Snyder 2011

  • This London-based Argentinean artist has been an art world slow-burner, accruing legions of fans in the past few years.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • A slow-burner this, but they will have to pick it up you feel at some point.

    World Cup 2010: Australia v Serbia ? as it happened 2010

  • The very confrontations the author has so deliberately prepared for are there and then gone in a blur of increasingly unlikely sequences more becoming of Jason Bourne than the bookish hero of this carefully constructed slow-burner.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Jeff C 2010

  • The very confrontations the author has so deliberately prepared for are there and then gone in a blur of increasingly unlikely sequences more becoming of Jason Bourne than the bookish hero of this carefully constructed slow-burner.

    Today in Fantasy: January 29, 2010 Jeff C 2010

  • The first episode of a four-part thriller is a slow-burner, but it's worth sticking around for strong performances, especially newcomer Genevieve Barr (born deaf) as Amelia, and a script that weaves coming-of-age issues into the narrative.

    Watch this 2010

  • Classic setup, and with the right cast and creative direction it could be a great slow-burner.

    Paranormal Activity Producers Set Up Hitchcockian Thriller The Jealous One | /Film 2009

  • Spookily, my third book is more of a slow-burner too, with more intrigue than the first two novels, and it does feel odd writing something that's a little different to the usual stuff I write.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008

  • I'm a big fan of the slow-burner type tracks myself, such as the Simian Mobile Disco remix of Ladytron, or pretty much any track Ewan Pearson lays his remix-hands on ...

    Music (For Robots): May 2006 Archives 2006

  • I'm a big fan of the slow-burner type tracks myself, such as the Simian Mobile Disco remix of Ladytron, or pretty much any track Ewan Pearson lays his remix-hands on ...

    City Songs (Music (For Robots)) 2006

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