So, he has well and truly stopped?
But we need to recognize that it never truly stopped.
"When I stopped playing, I truly stopped," she said.
If we truly stopped to think about what each such death meant for victims and their families we would surely become overwhelmed by despair.
By my teens I was pretty sure I'd been cruelly duped, but confess that it was only at 10 past midnight on 1 January 2000 that I truly stopped believing the end-of-the-world story.
But have the chants of "Stephen, Stephen" truly stopped ringing in your ears?
But on the dad side of things, I've never truly stopped pawing at the puppy store window, waiting for that unlikely selection, and the ride home.
Jon Snow never truly stopped being a man of the Night's Watch, but his loyalties were malleable -- malleable enough for him to get the girl (temporarily) and get the Wildling intel he was after.
It truly stopped me in my tracks to try to see the world in a different way, not as a series of problems to be fixed, but rather a series of experiences to sit with and ponder.
We'll never know if the bold intervention by the U.S. government truly stopped a massive economic collapse on the scale of the Great Depression or whether we were merely duped into helping rich CEOs keep their huge bonuses.
