His lusty shenanigans, and the pranks that the merry wives hatch in response, get lost in the immaculate art direction, and extended pauses between scenes sap momentum.
In such a resonant acoustic this created deliciously extended pauses, creating lacunae in the text that nothing stepped in to fill.
He's considered and articulate, yet sometimes seemingly on fast-forward, extended pauses followed by an explosion of thoughts and ideas ("I am scattergun to the nth degree," he laughs).
Those of us who would like to see an end – or at least an extended pause – to the hegemony of superhero films would be very pleased if Robert Downey Jr, Christian Bale and the nebbish who plays Captain America would make a similarly audacious artistic decision and walk away.
Like Walter Winchell and Gabriel Heatter before him, he personalized the radio news with his right-wing opinions, but laced them with his own trademarks: a hypnotic timbre, extended pauses for effect, heart-warming tales of average Americans and folksy observations that evoked the heartland, family values and the old-fashioned plain talk one heard around the dinner table on Sunday.
Amongst the guests there is a peach of a performance from Jeremy Northam as the buttoned-up diplomat quivering with shy lust: his initial, embarrassed encounter with Amy Morgan's taciturn flapper also proves that Coward, like Pinter, knew the comic value of extended pauses.
Rrm3, together with other components of the replication fork machinery ensures fork progression in the presence of replication blockages and prevents extended fork pausing that may occasionally lead to fork collapse [39,42 44].
For more than three months, car journeys have been extended, treadmills paused and irons left to burn holes in shirts as millions of people – many of them podcast virgins – consumed Serial with a relish typically reserved for box-set binges.
Maybe we would extend or pause the current text we are studying, and telescope it out: what happened?
