But then there is another list: slow-burning foods.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2004] Reference

For renewables, though, this is a slow-burning setback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pennsylvania's Vote for Gas Overshadows Renewables] Reference

National security is a slow-burning crisis in our country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorelei Kelly: Nature Abhors a Vacuum but so do Wingnuts: The Bailout and our National Security] Reference

This would have caused a slow-burning fire and not a fireball.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

When I say slow, I mean slow-burning when compared with explosive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference

Great Regulars: Great poems and novels are like slow-burning fuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Regulars: Great poems and novels are like] Reference

But these are slow-burning problems that need not be tackled in a rush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio Four's new boss Gwyneth Williams seems a good choice] Reference

The pallor beneath Jeems 'heavy tan vanished in a flush of slow-burning red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralestone Luck] Reference

CROWLEY: Race has been a slow-burning fuse beneath the Democratic candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2008] Reference

The idea made Amanda's blood pump faster, this time with a slow-burning fury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyoming Territory]

At least 2 pounds of clay tamping will be used with slow-burning explosives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference

He fixed those slow-burning eyes upon me as he said this, and waited for an answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

The matches mentioned were the slow-burning fuses, kept by a soldier in his bandoleer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference

A smokeless powder has been developed and a slow-burning powder for guns of large caliber.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

I had too much to do; this was no time to start making myself a slow-burning, brooding enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body In The Bath House]

Something that fanned the slow-burning heat inside her and sucked the breath out of her lungs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchased For Revenge]

A fluttering surge of desire rose within her, like a slow-burning flame fanned to burn hotter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart Of Stone]

EHRENREICH: Oh, I think so, and I think it's the kind of -- it's a kind of a slow-burning thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 7, 2005] Reference

It won't work, and the mess they've created is going to have slow-burning economic consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrence McNally: Q and A with Michael Lewis (Part 2): There's a Real Chance There's Going to Be an Uprising] Reference

The great slow-burning, and hopelessly underreported, resource crisis of the 21st century: water.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Water Scarcity: The Real Food Crisis] Reference

I'm not criticizing that slow-burning bliss that issues from a life spent helping those that hurt.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Against Happiness'] Reference

The three of us set off into the darkness, following a small, slow-burning taper which Elric held to guide us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreamthief's Daughter]

In the center of the dark blot that was its head, eyes glowed red-black like the heart of a slow-burning fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Krynn]

Metabolism: Some nutritionists say people with rapid metabolisms need slow-burning red meat to keep their energy up.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Man's Meat] Reference

They say the jumpers have robbed the West of the healthy, slow-burning blazes that remove tinder from the forest floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside The Inferno] Reference

"This is a slow-burning issue for the dollar," says John Normand, head of global currency strategy at J.P. Morgan Chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dollar's Yearlong Party Fizzles] Reference

The voiceover is pretty much the only real caveat, though, in a film that otherwise rigorously develops its slow-burning plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Force of Evil] Reference

Christos was conscious of a slow-burning anger that had started to smoulder the moment he had realised what she intended to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carides Pregnancy]

(Once you get over the distractions of her fame and beauty, Jolie plays her with admirable restraint and slow-burning ferocity.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Horror Of It All] Reference

At the start of the powder-train you placed a slow-burning fuse, to enable you to get over the skyline before November the Fifth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman And The Redskins]

There was more there than just a straightforward “evil teammate” thing going on, but it was far too slow-burning for my tastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Levitz to write Adventure Comics again | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference

And: "Resilience, Paul Bojack's dour examination of unexamined lives, is a slow-burning morality tale simmering with self-interest.".    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/18.] Reference

The body is charged with a slow-burning combustible, in the manner of the ordinary rocket, whereby it is given a rapid rotary motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

Joe Cole signing for Liverpool is by some distance the most interesting move so far in a distinctly slow-burning summer transfer market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Cole has the talent and stage for a late-career flourish at Liverpool] Reference

The film builds up a slow-burning terror that, strangely, has little to do with the monsters themselves or their actual violent actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [12/13: The Brood] Reference