He seemed diffident and tongue-tied as a salesman for the Obama doctrine, putting in a halting, gaffe-strewn performance in his Senate confirmation hearings.
Irene is gone," Ms. Hansen said in a halting voice.
Striking, too, is the show's heavy use of narration, uttered in a halting monotone by Elliot.
On Saturday the scattered families of Tskhinvali began to reconstruct themselves in a halting fashion.
"It was a difficult, very difficult," he said in a halting voice.
"The trees," he said in a halting Spanish, "are heavy with fruit".
In a halting monotone, Mr. Vreeland read a statement to the victims' families.
Mr. Moussaoui came to the United States in a halting rush, repeatedly changing his plans.
She and Keyuk engaged in a halting conversation about food, farming, and family heritage.
"I don't know how many missing works of art there are," Mrs. Reinach said in a halting voice.
In a halting monotone, he recorded two video appeals to Vladimir V. Putin, 13 minutes in all.
