Sentence examples for faint pause from inspiring English sources

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It was not a foretold victory, if the faint pause evinced by the award presenter (who had no knowledge of the award recipient's identity) was any indication.

When Rose asked him shortly before his death whether he wished to be 20 again, Buckley quickly answered: "Absolutely not". "I'm utterly prepared to stop," he said, with a faint pause of contemplation, "living on". In addition to his television career and busy speaking schedule, Buckley wrote more than 40 fiction and nonfiction books, as well as more than 5,000 articles and essays.

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Invited to comment on a seedy German night club, in the miniseries "Smiley's People," Guinness replies, "It was very artistic," with the faintest of pauses before the final word.

"It's been" -- a pause, the faint outline of a smile -- "fine".

Faint praise?

Faint praise indeed.

It was faint praise.

Faint praise, but still.

Mr. Dauwa paused, and then offered a faint smile.

After a long pause, she said, in a voice faint from worry, "I don't know.

Time and again (when, for example, she writes that 'the air was baked of scent except for the chalky dust with its faint odor of old cardboard') her descriptions make you pause and think, 'Absolutely!

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