Sentence examples for a pause for effect from inspiring English sources
And: "The most makeable screenplay idea is to write a hero part for a guy between thirty and fifty"—a pause for effect—"with a gun".
After a pause for effect, he repeated Ezra Malakov's words.
And: "The most makeable screenplay idea is to write a hero part for a guy between thirty and fifty" — a pause for effect — "with a gun".
With the benefit of a tight camera shot, viewers might have spotted a seemingly anxious gulp from Gen. Wesley K. Clark when a pause for effect during his speech did not produce the kind of cheers he received earlier at a pancake breakfast in Auburn.
That's a pause for effect only, to give his words a moment to sink on the audience and allow them time to scream again, for them to realise this moment is actually about him.
"I am impatient … as charged," he says amid loud laughs with a suitable pause for effect.
After a brief pause for effect, he let his executives have it with both barrels: "I think you're too old".Certainly, since launching his $5 billion bid for Dow Jones in April, Mr Murdoch, now aged 76, seems to have rediscovered his younger self.
It's those voices, particularly the leap into falsetto, after a pause for breath and effect, on "You made me feel so... blue" that does it.
My favourite palm is the phoenix date palm, which reminds me of a pineapple; I call this (pause for effect)... the pineapple palm ☺.
A great speaker knows when to pause for effect, as well as how fast to speak and at what volume.
