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Something of vial importance is going down, and it's happening now. RIGHT NOW. However, all of this depends on an excruciatingly slow process. Under any normal circumstance, this (possibly everyday) process wouldn't seem slow, but now that your life depends on it, well...
(Possible spoilers, ahoy!) I was playing a level near the end of Dead Space 2 where you are under constant pressure kindly provided by a rather... terrifying... necromorph. As it was bearing down on me in a narrow hallway (accompanied with a hoard of others), I was greeted by a pair of elevator doors. Cue me frantically hammering the call button and screaming obscenities as the darn thing took its sweet time to arrive. That's what made me think of this.
A loading bar is commonly associated with this "trope".