Who knew that a BLT could halt conversation, thanks to its thick whole-wheat bread and summery, bright red tomatoes?
If I am driving, I need to turn off the radio and halt conversation in any difficult passage.
"That's near Nebraska, isn't it?" Omaha is one of those ultimate flyover places, an urban Podunk so vaguely situated in coastal Americans' mental maps that the mere mention of it can actually halt conversation.
That can halt conversations, agitate us when we're trying to relax, and keep us from noticing the beauty of the world around us at that very moment.
In halting conversations they speak of a loss of agency and sense of purpose, continuing to live in a state of flux after the international community has long shifted its gaze to other crises.
Acting like their current, relatively successful candidacies are some sort of victory for diversity only halts conversations and helps people ignore their own possible biases.
When I first read this poem, there I was again--my first cappuccino, my first tequila, early halting conversations in Spanish--experiencing the zumbar or buzz of days in a vibrant capital city.
The Audi TT halted all conversation at a trendy sidewalk cafe downtown.
Seeming to sense a momentarily lapse in his otherwise undivided field of sexual gravity, Bryan gracefully halted the conversation to affix his attentions upon me, inquiring benignly if anything was the matter.
After that failed, which was almost always the case barring the intervention of a wealthy relative or other white knight, I halted the conversation and transferred the call to a "supervisor," a more experienced collector who would also demand payment in full.
She and Keyuk engaged in a halting conversation about food, farming, and family heritage.
