Sentence examples for precise pauses from inspiring English sources

Mr. Maxwell, the experimental writer and director who specializes in deadpan line readings and precise pauses, earned an avalanche of scorn for his first foray into Shakespeare, which closed last weekend after a nearly sold-out one-week run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Regarding the speeches, the reviewer for The Montreal Gazette wrote: "Her delivery, as usual, was smooth, relentlessly paced, but with precise pauses for the frequent, much-appreciated laugh lines".

To assign precise pause positions, we also compared pause bands to 3′-deoxyNTP-generated ladders using shorter templates and high-resolution gels.

Every so often the band would snap into more traditional jazz time, with assertive solos by George Colligan on piano; "Seven Steps" was filled with precise, suspenseful pauses.

To investigate the mechanistic basis of H-NS stimulation of transcription pausing, we examined the precise 3′ ends of paused transcripts stimulated by H-NS (Table 1, Figure 2 figure supplement 1).

A crow, an extremely precise ink blot, had paused in the pasture.

The big four – comma, semicolon, colon and full stop – were for a long time, and insanely, regarded as precise measurements of a pause: a full stop was worth four commas.

But so far, there is no general consensus on the precise mechanism behind the pause.

Poetic metre is not generated by any combination of stresses and pauses capable of precise scientific measurement; rather, metre is generated by an abstract pattern of syllables standing in positions of relative stress to each other.

But he said, "The agency's counterterrorism operations — lawful, aggressive, precise and effective — continue without pause".

Like the Latin books, they're no longer texts so much as tiny time machines – handling them zips me back with a jolt to obsessions with the precise length of a Pinter "pause" as opposed to "silence'" or weighing up how many lamb's hearts you need to last a week-long run of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, with two matinees.