Sentences with phrase «dramatic pause for»

Dramatic pause for effect.

Not exact matches

«You know who drinks this, don't you???» she asked, pausing for dramatic effect.

Then Sanders, as is his custom, paused for dramatic effect.

Working for change and women's progress «doesn't have to be dramatic — you don't have to run for office,» Clinton said during a speech in Silicon Valley, pausing for a coy smile and thunderous applause, «although if you do more power to you.»

In Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss has given perhaps the finest female dramatic performance on American television this side of Edie Falco in The Sopranos, and this simple exchange contains everything that makes her Peggy so fascinating and affecting — the unexpected cadences and pauses, the precise line readings, and her face, on the cusp of either smile or frown, dominated by her wide, soulful eyes, which seem constantly to search for, connect with, and then avert those of her scene partner.

Sandwiched among the dramatic vignettes of the story, Greenwood pauses to pepper the book with historical sidebars about the «secret code» language used by those who helped shuttle slaves north to safety; a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, known as «Moses» to those along the route; a brief history of storytelling among southern slaves; a scientific explanation for the «swamp ghosts» many slaves encountered along their escape routes; an inside look at some of the methods used to hide slaves from capture; and much, much more.

The loser gives me...» Hellebore paused for dramatic effect, «let's say, their hat.»

It was unclear whether he paused for dramatic effect or because he was searching the corners of his memory for the beginning of a certain tune.

The professor at the front of the lecture hall paused for dramatic effect, but as far as I could see, I was the only fully engrossed member of the audience.

While he did declare a winner in terms of who is currently doing the best job of getting the reading experience right (click HERE to read his article), he gave a very sound argument for what is lacking in digital children's reading, namely that necessary pauses that come from the page turns in order to teach children effect storytelling and dramatic effect.

It's probably worth pausing for a moment to reinforce how dramatic the roughly 2 % difference in annual returns between these sets of portfolios is.

It was almost like a dramatic pause, waiting for the rest of the shelter world to catch up.

«Resident Evil sold really well... I've got it lets make resident evil (pause for dramatic effect) with dinosaurs.

Its dramatic scale, and the ugly - beautiful delicacy of its «skin,» gave viewers pause — for

That may be your take on the substantial statistical evidence, but most of the mainstream climatologists promoting AGW are busy developing explanations for the «pause»; such as a dramatic switch (with no substantiated mechanism but several hypotheses, obviously ad hoc) at about 1998 whereby the atmospheric CO2 started to warm the deep ocean instead of the troposphere and surface.

[Pause for dramatic effect] Yes, Vicki Walker went there.