In this part of the planet, time standstill, life moves at snail pace, worries refrain to meddle, and mind, disdain to overwork.

I dream that at least it does happen even if at snail pace.

A reviewer from Sify.com wrote that it was "back breakingly long and turns out to be a boring affair", continuing to quote that the director had "tried out an experimental film which is preachy, monotonous and moves at snail pace".

Mrs. Morphett sees the mountain market's snail pace as a strength.

At times they must run with hands held high to divert branches, at times they were slowed to a snail pace by cluttered deadfall.

He discarded most of his bag of tricks and slowed down to snail pace.

While his sexless Germanic vocals threaten to get smothered in drippy melancholy, he's wise enough to ease off with the string quartets as things progress, transmuting his snail pace into the kind of pin-drop quiet electro Fischerspooner would make after a pint of heroin.

Try 18 months before treatment even starts at its snail pace !

Conversely, "Story mode" was criticised for exacerbating issues relating to pace, which was already remarked as having "snail's pace".