Sentence examples for the dramatic pause from inspiring English sources

The dramatic pause before the final score was posted lasted long enough for Svetlana Khorkina to launch into a plea-bargaining session with her demons.

Like blowing a raspberry in the dramatic pause of a Shakespearean soliloquy, this is how we, the little guys, kick back against the sombre, the sober and the austere.

The fourth ace, Texas's Cliff Lee, won't make an appearance until Game 3 — baseball's version of the dramatic pause — but his presence in this mix might be the most compelling of all, considering the trade that nearly made him a Yankee and the fact that he could both upset the Yankees in the postseason and in the offseason, writes Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com.com

Time and again the language seems to slip almost unconsciously into iambic pentameter — this was the age of Shakespeare, commentators are always reminding us — and right from the beginning the translators embraced the principles of repetition and the dramatic pause: "In the beginning God created the Heauen, and the Earth.

The dramatic pause, the sudden outburst, and the complete lack of apparent joy in his countenance all make this just a little bit creepy.

That's where the "dramatic pause" comes in.

They are clever and wry, but their lines sound improvised, spoken without the dramatic pauses and soothingly predictable pitter-patter of most Hollywood films.

If they can be accessed instantly, the unacceptable hold-ups that opponents of video evidence cite as an objection will become the dramatic pauses that have enhanced cricket and rugby league.

You know what came of that?" Dramatic pause.

His Iowa stump speech was almost identical — word for word and gesture for gesture — at two different stops that day: the same jokes, the same dramatic pauses, the same microphone shuffling and head nodding.

His Iowa stump speech was almost identical word for word and gesture for gesture at two different stops that day: the same jokes, the same dramatic pauses, the same microphone shuffling and head nodding.