“With a bland touch and tortoiselike patience, he recorded arrangements of one or more bodies in drowsy repose surrounded by rugs, blankets and furniture.”

“With Europe still inching along, however tortoiselike, the European Central Bank seems loath to abandon its characteristically cautious path.”

“Robert Breer's abstract floats, as he called them, are pieces of painted styrofoam with hidden motors that make them creep across the floor at tortoiselike speeds.”