In each, the action pauses (and there's lots of it to pause) while the characters debate important questions.
At artful moments, the action pauses for portraits — not stills but wavering poses — of the people, mostly impoverished, whom Ernesto meets along the way.
The Washingtonian rumbled forward, thumping his chest when the action paused for the bell – but he was paying a price for his aggression – and Hunter told him so.
Until recently the format of the traditional Broadway musical allowed for moments when the action paused long enough for a star to deliver a so-called 11 o'clock number, a song that audiences could hum or whistle as they left the theater.
The Home Office minister, determined to make the welfare of tabloid news editors his top priority, promptly promised tough action, pausing only to await formally the advice of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, as he is bound to do under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
Each composition is frozen in action, "paused so that the viewer might see themselves eerily reflecting back to a similar memory," according to the gallery.
During the game the player will encounter Karma Moments, when the action pauses and the player is told, through a monologue by Cole, of two actions that can be taken, always a good and bad option.
The beauty of the stories is not only in their substance but in their delivery, Scully weaving them seamlessly into his call of the action, pausing only to note a certain pitch or hit, sometimes completely ignoring a play to finish the thought, the stories becoming the game and the game becoming the interruption.
Walter is allowed an emotional release when the action pauses and the guards of the prison herd the cast off stage at the end, giving a glimpse into the high price paid by the actors on the stage of history and the actors in a show, even presumably hardened criminals.
When the action pauses for a moment, an old man approaches.
