What is left unsaid, is communicated through glances, silences, and pregnant pauses. |
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She pauses next to her convertible, soaking up the SoCal sun as the world-famous Hollywood sign beckons in the background. |
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The camera twice pauses on a riveting image of a dying knight, blood spraying from his punctured armor. |
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The timbre and cadence of his drawling voice startle at first and the listener becomes absorbed by his speech rhythms, pauses, and inflections. |
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Its cadences follow the rhythms of machines, and pull the reader into its moments of repetition, into its pauses. |
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A frog leaps off the bank into a shallow pond just as a hummingbird pauses for nectar from a flaming red salvia plant. |
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He pauses to pour himself another glass of white wine, but not before offering me one. |
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She sets her buckets on the front stoop and pauses before opening the door. |
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During the big pauses between each of the short, sobbing phrases at the opening of the Tristan prelude, you could have heard a pin drop. |
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It eliminated all pauses for inspiration, and freed heedless flights of fancy. |
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During its path along the template, RNA polymerase may encounter positions where it hesitates and pauses for a variable period of time. |
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There are likely to be longer pauses and more hesitations, with great care being taken over what is being said. |
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A visitor to this site, trying to find particular artifacts, enters her search terms, then pauses over the checkboxes. |
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The constant fast pace of football is reduced to long pauses to determine if a player had two feet in-bounds. |
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He sidesteps, swerves and pauses after difficult questions to consider his answers. |
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For the stammerer there is a feeling of being out of control and an ensuing repetition of sounds, syllables, words or pauses. |
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He pauses to watch a truck pass through a gate, then continues, almost conspiratorially. |
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Walking down his driveway, he pauses briefly to wave goodbye to the couple. |
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At first, you could see that the wrestlers were playing along with the crowd, deliberately leaving pauses during their speeches. |
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Cues pertaining to verbal qualities included such features as pitch of voice, details of story, pauses in speech, and laughing. |
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They often required careful, unnatural speech, with pauses after every word, and their transcription error rate was unacceptably high. |
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I keep seeing clips of him addressing audiences a few years ago and he didn't have the awkward pauses in his speech. |
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I could not understand why a performance with no scenery changes should require anything but the briefest of pauses between items. |
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Top it off with arrhythmic choruses drenched in vocoder effects and music pauses, and you have the blueprint for the entire album. |
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There are a few pauses in the Allegro moderato and the final movement is quite thrilling in its peroration. |
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Sleep-disordered breathing is characterized by frequent pauses in breathing during sleep, apneas, and hypopneas. |
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Better a halting dialogue between the right and left hand, full of gaping pauses and impasses, I suggested, rather than a glib ambidextrousness. |
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Hard edged pianism, sudden long pauses, and loud climaxes were the order of the day. |
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Breathe continuously, with no pauses between the exhalation and the inhalation. |
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I know it's only a linguistic tic, a filler word which pads out pauses, but it makes the whole thing so approximate and unsure. |
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It is also important to leave time for discussion during the activity, through the use of predetermined or spontaneous pauses or intermissions. |
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He pauses to savour the Kylie Minogue song playing over the bar sound system. |
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The great rhythms of the earth are built on motion and on the intervals or pauses. |
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Here he pauses, then continues, sounding like a cook admitting that a recipe is deceptively simple. |
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He pauses but continues to speak so fluently that Stephanie almost thinks he's reading from a script. |
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The rhythm is irregular, and the rate can vary or become sinus bradycardia because of the long pauses. |
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As a result, Homer often needs four different formulaic phrases for each hero in order to fill each of the pauses indicated above. |
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If there were awards for extreme melodrama with crocodile tears and overly dramatic pauses, then these individuals would win hands down. |
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Here he pauses, drops his diplomatic shield and oozes contempt for those he crossed swords with during his lengthy TV career. |
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A sword slices through his umbrella and pauses in a freeze-frame, his hand raises and halts. |
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The characters have so many pauses and flubs in their lines that they sound like they are reading off cue cards they just got that afternoon. |
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Most of the banquets lasted 8-10 hours, with some pauses for a concert or a representation with clowns, circus and funambulists. |
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As we walk to the edge of a stream, a stickleback freezes, then darts away in a series of rapid zig-zags punctuated by brief pauses. |
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There was the most pregnant of pauses as the camera panned along the faces in the panel. |
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The direction perks up in the second half but overall allows too many pregnant pauses by the actors. |
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The audio is a perfectly timed machine-noise fugue that pops, clicks, squawks and, every so often, pauses pregnantly. |
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He pauses and takes a sip of decaf, thinking of the best way to describe the film. |
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You get this flurry of gesticulatory activity, followed by a raising of the eyebrows and a widening of the eyes as the orator pauses. |
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During a pitched gunfight in a hotel, he shoots one opponent, walks past him, pauses and shoots again at point-blank range. |
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She pauses a moment, partially entranced before breaking the impending spell. |
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Pops pauses, pondering my question, while my interrogating eyes lock onto a weary mole domiciled between his eyebrows. |
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Such pauses and jumps have been observed in recent experiments on DNA unzipping. |
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In this style abrupt pauses with short silences are considered embellishments. |
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There are more sensuous pauses and pensive gulfs between his allegrettos and adagios. |
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She enjoys the organized chaos that erupts whenever filming pauses for a commercial break. |
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During the landing phase, pauses and wingbeat frequency increased and wingbeats became shallow. |
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Another Spit pauses from dogfighting long enough to lend a bomber a plume before yawing away to rejoin its group. |
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They progress by short runs or a series of hops with pauses and an always alert posture. |
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The second striking point was the way the rests and pauses were manipulated and utilised to characterise the entire performance. |
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In the way that he apposes the images and varies the pauses, he draws us into the evening's movement and its paradoxically calming effect. |
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Arriving fully dressed, she pauses to put on lipstick and rouge up her cheeks. |
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Until the 18th Century, punctuation was closely related to spoken delivery, including pauses to take breath. |
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When asked how he came to Zen, Daido Roshi pauses, takes off his sage-green fedora and rubs his clean-shaven head. |
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Finally making up his mind, he pauses, gives his compatriot a military salute and finally, leaving him to himself, departs. |
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Its auto mode is good for a system of its type, but the pauses and surges will be hard to take for those used to the feel of regular automatics. |
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The film suffers from the wooden, stiff readings, the lengthy pauses, and the near-screaming that was common in the early talkies. |
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She wraps one leg around the other and scarcely pauses for breath before elaborating. |
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It must have the stamina to sing with only short pauses to gather breath, and its notes must be loud and clear. |
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Turning north Michael passes through the dramatic mountains of the Hoggar massif before he pauses in the oil and gas fields of central Algeria. |
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If no symptoms are present and the sinus pauses last three seconds or less, no further evaluation is necessary. |
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He just showed the slides, two by two, with a measured pace and a few syncopated pauses precisely where one needed time. |
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Of course the world of news is a frenetic, busy world, that seldomly pauses to consider itself. |
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A bee flying home typically pauses at the entrance while a guard bee checks her chemical credentials as a nest mate. |
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Bet pauses and there is a collective tutting of disgust at such horrors as fully nude dancing. |
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Initially careful not to catch himself out, or say something that might subsequently trip him up, the Biarritz-based Scot pauses for a second. |
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He pauses at a boundary, then sets up his old-fashioned camera on its tripod, focuses and sets the exposure, and then waits. |
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He pauses to pour ice water into a clear glass tumbler, and drinks from it heartily. |
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A fairy sighter called Peter Aziz tells Walker there's one over there, right near that tree, and the camera pauses to see what he does. |
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Here the actors spoke slowly, reverently, and monotonously, with pauses long enough for the audience to go out for a smoke. |
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The problem is the script, which never once pauses to consider its own essential silliness. |
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He blurts some knee-jerk retort about his music always being authentic and soulful then pauses and thinks about it a bit. |
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Asked what happens if the algorithm suggests one thing, but his gut suggests something else, Jackson says he pauses and thinks. |
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In Schubert's music, the Viennese lilt and nuance in the phrasing, touch, singing line and overall style, even the pauses and silences, require complete mastery. |
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She uses the dash in the traditional manner, marking pauses, aposiopesis, and rhetorical transitions, but she also uses it in a non-traditional manner. |
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The merest of pauses follow as he ponders his quick-fire response. |
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He also used speech pauses effectively to drive home his messages. |
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While it is no coincidence that she has twice been cast as a doctor, the actress seems far more hesitant in person, with long pauses punctuating her conversation. |
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He pauses again, measuring his words, trying to find the ones that fit. |
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When asked why he and greenfield have such great chemistry on the show, he pauses. |
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He indicates a space in front of his nose, then pauses for effect. |
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This is a really bad way of dividing up the available airwaves because it means that the spaces and pauses in speech get the same priority as the words. |
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Quick techno rhythm is syncopated with pauses in the forward-moving action brought on by Lola's superhuman screams or by the death of a protagonist. |
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You quickly realise that you need a line of patter, of questions, of genuine interest peppered with observations, to break through those socially unacceptable pauses. |
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Often when nonfluent readers read aloud, their reading is interrupted not only by their own pauses but by other students who tell them the word that is causing the pause. |
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Ellroy pauses at every marker, examining the intoxications of zealotry, but ultimately casts them all aside. |
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Especially when one pauses to consider that this is the fourth child of the catwalk queen, who is the face of Calvin Klein. |
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Yet when our speedster pauses for just a moment, the luster of The Flash fades. |
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It pauses the careening jumble of events to carve out moments of stillness. |
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Now I watch the second hand on my analog clock swoop around with the tiniest of pauses, and I wonder how it will look after another thirty years goes by. |
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Semicolons are replaced by final periods, and the slight pauses created by commas are replaced by the more definite separations of colons or semicolons. |
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The guy pauses a moment, then grants that this proposition seems doubtful. |
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Frequently, he pauses to alight and hang beneath the drooping stem of a bluebell to sip nectar, his pale sulphurous wings contrasting splendidly with the deep blue flowers. |
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During that period, there were long pauses and periods of quiescence that could lead one to believe that the revolt had subsided. |
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Traveling through Europe, blogger Molly Hannon pauses to reflect on the city of Dijon's legendary gustatory heritage. |
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Marissa, broken by the death of her mother, sits silently with her pet dog, clutching her recorder, while a passer-by pauses to give her a piece of his mind. |
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I would rather have a fork scraped repeatedly across my teeth than listen to one of his speeches waiting for a gaffe or one of his patented mistimed pauses. |
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Poe pauses, then wipes his lips with a rather dainty handkerchief. |
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When asked what dessert was like, Goldblum simply pauses, wide-eyed, in reverie. |
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The tetrameters are made to halt, by placing the strongest syntactical and rhetorical pauses within the short lines, while the strong rhymes chime out the line endings. |
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She moves through the ballet's striking angles, clocklike maneuvers, and dramatic pauses with fluidity and a guarded sexual energy. |
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There are lots of pauses and little detours, hitchings-up of their smocks, inspection of the soles of their feet, some rather overdone limping. |
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But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings. |
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At this point Geoffrey abruptly pauses his narrative by inserting a series of prophecies attributed to Merlin. |
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Much too conscientious a Musician, to omit a note of his part, he patiently waited for the pauses, to pull up his nethergarment again. |
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When he pauses to shoot a male western capercaillie taking advantage of his apparent numbness, she scares away the bird. |
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Recessional moraines are small ridges left as a glacier pauses during its retreat. |
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He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. |
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In free flowing speech, there are no clear boundaries between one segment and the next, nor usually are there any audible pauses between words. |
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Suffering a bad case of sequelitis, this Sister Act follow-up is too formulaic and frequently pauses to sermonize at the expense of entertaining. |
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He pauses, absorbing the sunshine streaming into his garden. |
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This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way. |
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There are many opportunities, in the form of pauses and gaps, for the therapist to take a turn. |
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But now and then a dudelet who is new to the ways of the world pauses for a moment at the glittering windows, and is lost. |
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Then he pauses and looks up, doing a quick bout of surveying in his head. |
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Just outside the harbour, the mailboat pauses to fish a life-jacket, left over from the regatta the day before, out of the sea. |
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Across the centuries the fortunes of the two religions have risen and fallen in a sequence of momentous surges, pauses, and countersurges. |
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Francis Ford Coppola wrote this particular cinematic version of the Great American Novel, and it's heavy on moody pauses and echoey dialogue. |
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The Taking Of Pelham 123 begins at a canter and barely pauses for breath between the slow-motion crashes and John Travolta's voracious scenery chewing. |
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The clerk pauses to greet two bulkily clad, dot-faced women wary of crossing the slippery road, but ungallantly fails to raise his regulation top-hat. |
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Conductor Brian Priestman keeps the CBC Orchestra and Chorus moving briskly, never stalling, but yet with occasional rubato and pauses that are entirely appropriate. |
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Shortly after the invention of printing, the necessity of stops or pauses in sentences for the guidance of the reader produced the colon and full point. |
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During the ceremony, BAFTA pauses to pay tribute to those in the industry who died over the previous twelve months, with a montage of images accompanied by music. |
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