A din of conversations and transactions: dollars for sale; slot machines; English tapes announcing, "Mano" — pause, pause — "Hand".
Of all the things to make you pause, hand on wallet, before shelling out for a movie ticket, try this: a film about the aftermath of 9/11, starring Adam Sandler.
At a particularly tough turn, I pause, hands on knees.
Periodically they pause for hand massages, administered by Asian women who labor beneath the gaze of a Teutonic overseer at a central, undisclosed and apparently underground location.
He saw us now and paused, one hand gripping a button at the front of his coat.
It is such moments that may give Cowboys fans, and perhaps even Jerry Jones, pause before handing the reins to Garrett full time.
Just before he staggered home, he paused, his hand on the doorknob, and said, 'The history of mankind in four words: 'Mimi nyama, wewe kisu.' " "Whaaa?" Murray Cutler said, throwing his head back.
Applause drew time from trending pause when, hands grown sore, each leaned to his companion, said some words of praise, and emptied into the warm, familiar night, while he, washed pale of his trade's disguise, escaped the watchers through an unknown door, entered the craft that bore him home.
As the U.S. men have struggled in Rio, Leyva did not pause before handing due credit to his more successful counterparts on the women's team.
Midway through a discussion about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president paused to hand out copies of what he said were the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map.
She pauses, her hands folded in her lap, and sits very still.
