But in opening up the possibility for a slow trudge toward democracy, we were still right about the big thing.

'It'll tire me out, too,' Julia grumbled, but she began the slow trudge back.

It was both impossible and foolish to run on the shifting surface, but the slow trudge gave them entirely too much time to think.

Saying nothing to Kai, who babbled something to himself in his native language, he continued the slow trudge through the snow, keeping his ears open for another telltale noise.

But this departure was more a slow, inexorable trudge than a jaunty cartwheel.

Their pace slackened to a slow trudge.

Because they know that nothing impresses the stern but forgiving American public as much as a spectacular fall from grace, followed by a laying bare of faults and a slow trudge toward redemption.

Once more, he glanced at the bare night sky, then began the slow uphill trudge toward the cabin.

Life for Mr. Bacanovic, who is 44 and recently completed his probation, has been a slow trudge through the slough of a legal and regulatory despond.

Heads slumped, the slow trudge from the field at the final whistle told its own dismal tale.