There was a difficult pause, until someone chipped in: "I'm sure Simon won't only write about red wine".
There was a pause, then someone launched into the colonel's monologue from "Avatar": "Out there, beyond that fence, every living thing that crawls, flies, or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubes. . . .
"You have always got to pause if someone continues to say they're innocent, either when they're in prison or, more pointedly, if they're in prison and ruling themselves out of early release because they're not acknowledging their guilt.
We all assume news breaks on Twitter and Facebook, but if we pause, often someone has to leak that news to a source who then puts it online.
If there is a pause after someone speaks and there is a call for questions, it can be awkward for both the speaker and the audience.
There were various settings for patterns of sucking, where it would go like, suck-pause-suck or suck-suck-pause, like someone doing morse code on my vulva.
When the clamour really did end everyone paused lest someone else might pop up the chief had one more message for the audience before moving on to the decisions and oral arguments of the day.
He said the product's devotees tell him that Egyptian Magic "prevents diaper rash, it's good for sunburns, chemical burns, and oven burns, and" — Mr. Litvak paused as someone in the store reminded him of another use — "Oh, it's a good feminine lubricant".
Of course, broadcasting live video from your handset plays second fiddle to, you know, using the thing to take phone calls, so streams will automatically be paused when someone rings up the user.
Long, slow conversations with big pauses between someone saying something and anybody responding.
