The quad-burning walk necessitates a lovely pause on the Cliff Street overlook where you can see the town's church spires pierce the sky, and Federalist and Colonial Revival buildings hover over the water, impervious to past floods, including the 10-foot rise from Hurricane Irene.
A lovely pause, a moment when it's all true and then, "Just kidding," he smiles.
Watching Jones, you get many of those lovely pauses between a joke's completion and the laugh beginning.
If you read it like this: "There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier (pause, pause) Than all the valleys of Ionian hills.
On his way out, one pupil paused; "Lovely coat, ma'am," he said.
More touching still is the sequence back at Jack's house, in which he kisses first Fatima, who is holding a new baby, and then, after a hilariously thoughtful pause, the lovely Alex, who is also holding her baby, and who, having hitherto scorned Jack as the merest fertilizer, has now found room for him in her heart.
Talk of witches and spirits is woven into the fabric of the otherwise realistic world, which, like the plays of Annie Baker, whose "Circle Mirror Transformation" starred Ms. Schreck in a breakout role, includes lingering pauses between lovely bursts of offhand dialogue.
But before these lovers can give up their bickering, before they are released into a holiday of mutual recognition, the movie pauses for a lovely but unromantic moment.
Pause to enjoy a lovely smell.
At times, silences and pauses onstage are as lovely to hear as a beautifully constructed monologue or a sharp turn of phrase.
As we go over this math Houston pauses to garnish this lovely inevitability: "But we will sign up many, many customers".
