Sentence examples for deliberate pause from inspiring English sources

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There was a deliberate pause.

What's on your mind?" A deliberate pause, to milk the inevitable laughter.

"Almost there," one whispered, and after a deliberate pause, "This has never happened before".

The more the Kipsigi girls repeat the song's title — with a deliberate pause between the second and third syllable, as if it were two words, Chimi Rocha, Chimi Rocha, Chimi Rocha — the more it becomes clear that, as Tracey discovered, the Kipsigi girls were in fact singing the name of the American country star Jimmie Rodgers.

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They all try to describe James's distinctive manner of speaking, which was an extremely deliberate, pause-filled, somewhat stammering effort to grasp le mot juste.

For all his talk of speed, Mr. Musk, a physicist by training, is painstakingly deliberate, pausing between sentences.

His deliberate pauses may be disconcerting for his interlocutors, but he seemed as sharp as ever on Tuesday — perhaps especially when he paused before revealing a closer relationship with the former Labor prime minister, Gordon Brown, than the current Conservative prime minister, David Cameron.

It was a deliberate, extended pause.

She was thoughtful and deliberate, sometimes pausing for a long moment to think over and absorb Mr. Mathias's suggestions, and at first she edged into the scene, growing bolder with subsequent tries.

He employed rhetorical devices that made his words weapons: the amplification and over-enunciation; the deliberate, timed pauses between words; the elongation of the second syllables of certain words, such as "among," "indeed," "comported"; and the evocation of emotion through lilting inflection at unexpected moments.

What I have discovered is this: when I try to do what the abbot did, slowing down, listening more mindfully, weighing my words with deliberate care, pausing, not rushing to comment, I become much more aware of the impulses that drive me and the spirit of the group with whom I am in communication.

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