Sentence examples for weighty pause from inspiring English sources

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Mr. DeNiro, after a long, weighty pause, responded.

"It was," she tells us — a weighty pause — "magnificent".

The wages of celebrity are being assessed all over this city in productions that should give weighty pause to those who would be stars.

Finally, Mr. Dujardin went for it: "You talkin' to me?" Mr. DeNiro, after a long, weighty pause: "Pretty good," he said, totally deadpan.

"The thing of it is," he said, and we all waited as he allowed a weighty pause to fill the air — "you've just got to keep your mouth shut".

After a weighty pause, Speier went on.

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It would be nice if it burned the script as it got going, sending lines lines like "He's a bit... [weighty pause] … different from all your other boyfriends" and scenes like the killer practising crying in front of the mirror safely up in smoke.

These conversions are followed by a pause, which is long and weighty enough to indicate that we are giving sober consideration to the matter.

She paused and added: "That was a very weighty time.

Picture requests are nothing, a breeze, compared to being presented like a weighty fishing catch at a festival, and when we round a corner and Grint is asked to pause for another picture he's already extending an arm and readying a photo smile before the request is out.

Unwantedly weighty?

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