Competitors understandably try on every shot, but play at a funereal pace.
"They'd have all ended up in a prison camp if we'd waited for our illustrious friend to move at his usual funereal pace," he told them.
Making everything sound mournful and playing it at a funereal pace is not really much of a re-interpretation, I'm sorry to say.
Nor is it likely that he would have approved of somber interpretations performed at a funereal pace.
The play was at a funereal pace.
The story unfolds at the almost funereal pace that is the hallmark of soap opera.
Karl nodded and began to walk slowly up the steps, Erika by his side, moving at a funereal pace.
In an effort to delay the inevitable, she walked at a funereal pace down the access ramp.
She often goes "against" the music: for example, when the tempo slows to a funereal pace, the dancers may spring into the air.
They were walking at a slow, funereal pace toward the waiting Guardsmen.