These pared-down poems activate the nervous, interior measures of a restless underground man, with halting line-breaks determined by breath and bop jump-cuts.
Clinical trials have been halted, lines of research abandoned, and the new drug pipeline has been allowed to run dry.
In this piece, individual passages carried real emotion: the way the main theme of the slow movement was transformed into a spectral vision, a halting horn line suspended beneath celeste and harp lines; or the dramatic conclusion to the finale, when the lamenting opening theme of the first movement returned to cast a long shadow over the supposedly heroic coda.
Yet, amid the spiraling flights and blasts of jerky chords, a halting thematic line threads through the textures.
Many of Wotan's halting vocal lines should sound like he's almost muttering.
Through a Lens A Chinese student halts a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square.
Many more have seen the factories on which their livelihoods depend cutting production or even halting assembly lines.
For many months, Palestinian officials resisted any return to negotiations with Israel, saying all settlement construction should first be halted in line with the obligations of the US "road map" of 2003.
From understated yet sunny elegance in the first movement, the performance journeyed through the intensity of the second, in which the focus was on the duet between Corina Belcea's halting violin lines and Erben's plucked bass notes, to a finale that began with the violins crooning together as if at a rustic knees-up.
● TSA for halting the line-shortening "managed inclusion" part of its Pre-Check program that worked well for all.
With no semiconductors or car parts crossing the ocean by air, factories on both sides of the Pacific had to halt production lines.
