The film makes clear that the mainstream media were embarrassingly slow to recognize the religious right's political clout.

When I started, less than six months ago, my time in the 500-meter was 54.99, which is embarrassingly slow.

Yet the attention and appeal can only help a sport in which change comes embarrassingly slow.

I stared at him for a moment, embarrassingly slow on the uptake, then chuckled.

And fast computers come with ironclad guarantees that they will seem embarrassingly slow within months.

Prior offerings in that form factor were all embarrassingly slow.

When the unexpectedly stubborn Turkish resistance led to an embarrassingly slow advance of the Italian forces, reinforcements were sent to Libya.

The Model 50 has a 20-megabyte internal drive that is embarrassingly slow, almost as slow as a floppy disk.

Even his afternoon office hours, at times embarrassingly slow, were made pleasantly hectic today by frequent phone calls from the hospital nurses to clarify orders or discuss problems.

But in dealing with once-superior athletes who have no concept of how good they are versus how good they once were, change can come embarrassingly slow.