As I started stepping back, left, pause, right, pause, left, pause, right, pause, left...and during the entire length of this stealth backwards amble I was utterly focused on the giraffe in front me through my viewfinder.
Mortimer, by contrast, will begin a sentence ("I think that... ..) and then pause, leaving a silence in which you can sense her editing her words in her head, before committing them concisely to the tape recorder in that distinctive half-rasping, half-squeaky voice.
Even with the emotional backstory LA Noire provides for your war-veteran-turned-cop character, the bottom line is that he is essentially your puppet, and every time you put him on pause, leaving him standing gazing pointlessly at a fish-head ("Not every clue is relevant to your investigation"), you're reminded he has no life of his own.
Filling in the pauses left while Flack adjusted banjo strings, Cavett regaled the crowd with stories about Groucho Marx and Gore Vidal, such as, when asked if he was having a good time, Groucho replied, Yes, but not tonight.
She paused, leaving Brown to pick up.
So…" she pauses, leaving the messy details in the air.
But as precisely as his handsome features register degrees of arrogance, wariness and misery, the screenplay, with its evasive pronouncements and ponderous pauses, leaves his character purposefully unfocused and hence symbolic of some generalized malaise.
Between each line of the verse, Francis pauses, leaving the drums and bass playing.
"right (pause) ruff ruff left (pause) ruff ruff".
I think you're better than Sir Ralph Richardson!" To which Welles responds, after a slight pause, "You left out Laurence Olivier".
I mean — " I nodded and tried to think what to say in the pause she left behind.
