Sentence examples for strange pause from inspiring English sources

In 1970's The Out of Towners, the vigilantes in Central Park are well-dressed young men, reflecting that strange pause between decades where even the muggers still wore snappy hats.

This will make sure that they sound natural with the melody and there are no strange pauses or mismatched syllables.

" George W. Bush's squint and mispronunciations are essential to an impression of him, just as a Shatner impression must involve strange pauses.

With about 20 minutes left, there is a strange break in the show, in which the dancers pause to towel off and change into fresh clothes.

"They're not crazy, they're just —— " he said with a pause, "strange".

The choreography of this year's show is superb – I've never seen it better presented – with the black-on-black paintings of the Ghanaian-born Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in the third gallery as a strange and arresting pause.

The actor Christopher Walken's rather unique delivery is marked by him stressing unexpected words, strange rises and pausing at odd moments.

When our son, John, was in high school, he had a classmate who thought that calling me Dave was dangerously strange; he always paused before saying it, and then pronounced it as though he were reading it from a page on which it had been printed in italics and enclosed in quotation marks.

But you have to pause on the strange, suggestive image and sounds of "hounded owls of hearts".

There is no narrative here beyond the way the thinking fits together and how the space between the lines themselves seem to take on a strange kind of energy on pause.

"The thing I am most excited about," says its creator, "is the idea of a lonely man with a dog walking some isolated headland – and pausing as this strange island moves past him".