Normal speech is a muddle, a mix of sentence fragments and hesitations, repetitions and interruptions. |
The voice on the phone from New York is tremulous, unfailingly polite, marked by hesitations and bursts of nervous laughter. |
Our speech is not the defined sentences of Novels, but the mad collection of hesitations and uncompleted thoughts which we voice. |
He rubs his eyes and slurs his words, and his sentences are peppered with ums and ahs and hesitations. |
One instantly recognizes his modulated and finely tuned free verse line, with its meandering parentheses and doubled back hesitations. |
Both the sexes move so closely that inhibitions and hesitations are a thing of the past now. |