"You know this already, don't you?" he asks, before blithely continuing, unwilling to interrupt the rhythm of the narration.
The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.
But nothing interrupted the rhythm of Garcia, who either held or shared the lead from the second round until the end.
The Raiders, a longtime nemesis of the N.F.L., chose to interrupt the rhythm of the first round by waiting nearly a half hour to announce their picks at No. 31 and No. 32.
A wide variety of folk remedies are used to stop hiccups by interrupting the rhythm of the diaphragm spasms; the most common and effective treatment is to hold one's breath for as long as possible.
"We wanted to make everyone conscious of moving the game along, but we didn't want to interrupt the rhythm," said the SEC consultant and clock proponent Larry Templeton, a former Mississippi State athletic director who was the chairman of the N.C.A.A. baseball committee.
She is completely correct: the artificial turf causes the ball to move faster across the pitch, interrupting the rhythm of the game, causing the ball to ricochet across the field, and making the game feel more like pinball than soccer.
In the context of a busy clinic that often provides a multitude of maternal and child health and other services, it is much easier for a provider to give an injection or a package of oral contraceptives than to interrupt the rhythm of work flow to provide counseling and insertion of an IUD.
Twice a week, real tendrils of smoke float across the horizon announcing the arrival of the Ilala, which interrupts the lazy rhythm of the island.
