"He's got a couple near pauses as he goes into his windup, but it's not a Hideo Nomo-type delivery or anything like that".
Federal Reserve policy makers, sensing renewed inflation dangers and an economic boost from government rebate checks, may be nearing a pause in interest-rate cuts after the fastest reductions in two decades.
The nearest one pauses, just 10 metres in front of us, swivels in the dust and affects a cocky, legs-apart pose, ears flapping, trunk swinging.
She speaks in a near-monotone, pausing awkwardly between thoughts (not long enough here, too long there), and when she tells a joke, there's no oomph in her delivery.
If your parents are watching TV near you, pause or stop when they pause.
The mood of "A Talking Picture," at first, is relaxed and touristic, as if Mr. Oliveira were undertaking meditations on picturesque and significant European and Near Eastern places, pausing to linger in the company of Catherine Deneuve, Stefania Sandrelli and Irene Papas, actresses who are fading monuments of European cultural glory in their own right.
Concerns about drilling flared in the run-up to Christmas when energy company Cuadrilla was forced to pause operations near Blackpool three times after drilling caused small earthquakes that breached government safety limits.
It crosses the Derwent near Hope, pauses at Grindleford, with its quirky greasy-spoon café beloved of rock climbers, and at Hathersage, whose outdoor swimming pool lures Sheffielders in summer.
A woman driving by the new site near Alabama Drive Park paused for about 30 seconds in the road to talk to a worker and was ticketed by a Herndon police officer for blocking traffic.
Like the music, however, the choreography's racing dynamic also beats to a slower pulse, the movement melting and pausing into near slow motion, a single phrase stretched out into a languorous arc, the stage emptying to a single duet.
In an era of near-constant mutual affirmation — pause here to check the number of likes on your most recent selfie — why let a little thing like death stand in the way?
