The air-conditioner continued to choke while everything else in the room froze.
For a moment, the room froze while the guests wondered what the once-combative former mayor would do.
Like the ominous slow-motion moment that precedes an explosion in an action movie, conversation ceased, everyone in the room froze and hairstyles rose and bowed in windy deference.
"I felt bound by those mandatory guidelines and I hated them," Judge Lagueux (pronounced la-GUEUR) said from the bench as Ms. Dallaire sobbed quietly and the room froze with amazement.
Nureyev referred to his childhood as his "potato period," when that vegetable was the main sustenance and "six people and a dog" lived in one room, freezing throughout the long, bitter winters.
Ashland Mines, who goes by the name Total Freedom, plays gripping club sets and once hosted a party series in Los Angeles where attendees were strictly forbidden to dance — if anyone broke form, he'd stop playing until the entire room froze again.
My oldest son, who was doing something across the room, froze with his eyes on us.
So, we just started typing in the editing room, freezing the grandma and typing out the things that were important to her, and then doing the same with Jane and doing the same with her mom.
Jason escapes, killing all but one of his captors, and slices through the cryo-chamber, spilling cryonics fluid into the room, freezing himself and the only other survivor, Rowan (Lexa Doig).
"When she showed us she could almost walk the whole room froze for about three minutes until we all burst into tears," remembers Natalia's preschool teacher Dragana Brankovic.
He just sits in his uncle's dismal little book-room, frozen with terror, trying to avert his gaze when in company from returning to the fateful volume.
