Sentence examples for painful pause from inspiring English sources

At one point, there was a long and painful pause as Marshall nervously tuned her guitar.

A long and painful pause, which seems to rend the air, descends after a sequence in which three prostitutes describe their existences after the murders.

Mr. Barr's frightening performance, in which he seems to deteriorate physically with every painful pause, gulping spit as he describes his degraded life, can be hard to watch.

Then after a brief, painful pause, he delivers the kicker: "Little bastard shot me in the ass!" I can't imagine any other actor pulling that moment off.

Beyond the obvious (money, sex, fame) it's hard to know what truly pushes Mark, whose personality emerges in furtive smiles, gushes of words and painful pauses.

It's painful.' " He paused.

Stuart's heroin addiction, before he died from heart failure in September 2011, is still a painful subject that makes Anderson pause as he searches for emotionally neutral language.

Long pauses punctuated the painful two-minute conversation, for which she apologized and assured me that she "was sh** at giving interviews," as though thoroughly convinced she had no powers of public enchantment at all.

Saturday brought Perla Martinez three minutes of joy, a temporary pause in a long, painful separation.

Choose thoughts that produce emotions that make you feel comfortable in your body: love, happiness, peace, joy. 2. Place painful memories of the past on pause.

She pauses; the memory remains painful.