Sentences with phrase «awkward pauses in»

Practice potential interview questions in order to avoid any missteps or awkward pauses in conversation.

From terrible line reads that seem to have been recorded in isolation without any thought for how emotional tone would carry between lines, to awkward pauses in VO that hamper pacing, the voice acting in Mighty No. 9 always feels like a budget product from a team struggling to pull together enough cash for their story.

This difference in comfort levels, coupled with an apparent lack of confidence in the statistics and probability content being used, seemed to cause awkward pauses in their small group discussions at times.

Meet singles nearby singles in nearby cities: intimate enough that you can have a deep and meaningful with someone interesting you meet, but bustling enough to mask awkward pauses in conversation.

There are some awkward pauses in the conversation and you drink it down faster than you intended.

Please read the essay An Awkward Pause in my new ebook Blowing Smoke, out yesterday.

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Our transoceanic conversation is a case in point, he notes: over a metamaterial - augmented all - optical network, the static, the awkward pauses and the cross-talk at the ends of our sentences would be eliminated.

The trick is bolstering the status quo instead: «If you look comfortable, relaxed or even if admit that you didn't know what was said, the person you're talking to won't perceive it as an awkward silence, they're just going to view it as a pause in the conversation,» says Notas.

I also don't try to dominate the conversation or fill every awkward pause with my voice, I tend to let her talk as much as she wants and if I goes quiet I just look at her like she's only one in the room and that usually gets a smile and starts the conversation flowing again.

But if you prepare some fun questions to ask in advance, it will be easy to avoid the awkward pauses.

On the one hand, communicating when online dating is easier than the real world; after all, there are no awkward pauses, or foot - in - mouth situations.

And yet the guys have to find it more difficult, because they need to take care not only about the place of the meeting, paying bills, appearance, but also dragging the burden of conversation on their shoulders, filling in awkward pauses.

There was an awkward five second pause before he looked me dead in the eye and said «it's hopeless huh?».

It's played as a comedy, with director Taika Waititi reveling in awkward pauses, uncomfortable exchanges, some physical comedy, and other things that seem quite unlike what we might expect from a movie starring Thor.

There's a certain class of low - budget indie filmmaking that's become almost its own recognizable style — full of ordinary people just trying to find happiness in unorthodox ways, hand - held close - up shots, montages of locations (easily recognized if you live in the area where they're shot, but not particularly tied to the story, which could take place anywhere) with light music underneath, a tendency to shift focus amateurishly (though I think often on purpose as part of the style), a lot of contemplative pauses and awkward conversations.

In the meantime, we get some nice awkward pauses, a few callbacks to and expansions of the recurring jokes, and some random moments, like the reverend's strange Scripture passage, the deceased dressed as a Roman centurion in a photo, and Howard's horribly inappropriate conversation with the widoIn the meantime, we get some nice awkward pauses, a few callbacks to and expansions of the recurring jokes, and some random moments, like the reverend's strange Scripture passage, the deceased dressed as a Roman centurion in a photo, and Howard's horribly inappropriate conversation with the widoin a photo, and Howard's horribly inappropriate conversation with the widow.

It's about all of those awkward pauses that you find yourself having in conversations with your family that in any other context with any other person that you don't know so well would truly be awkward, but since it's with your family it's ok.

Doug Archibald also directs, and demonstrates an adeptness at utilizing awkward silences and pauses without making them a crutch or a lazy punchline, instead grounding the humor of the twins» pettiness (sometimes childishness) in a serious treatment of their problems.

The result, to start, were some awkward pregnant pauses — but it ultimately led to Cooper filling in the silence with amusing anecdotes about his experiences with the legendary performer.

The writer - director continues to stick to his guns, giving us more understated humor, awkward pauses, pitch - perfect montage and pathos in another thoughtful story that revels in fractured characters.

Even if you don't like the 40 - year - old's humour, and many don't, you can at least appreciate its gleefully juvenile craft — scenes chockablock with sight gags, rapid - fire cutaways to hilariously absurd punchlines, painfully awkward pauses that last so long you eventually laugh, all of it wrapped in an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture that has made him a bro deity among the coveted 18 - to 34 - year - old male demographic.

Unfortunately all the game's dialogue was recorded line by line which resulted in awkward pauses during character conversations.

It doesn't nearly reach the level of any of those movies, but Across the River is an intimate movie that works on the audience slowly, revealing the emotional life of the two characters in gestures, reactions, and awkward pauses.

As the demon Surtur sits on his enormous throne in the fire - realm Muspelheim, dangling Hemsworth's chained Asgardian prince from the ceiling and laying out his plan for the destruction of Asgard (the «Ragnarok» of the title), Thor keeps interrupting, inspiring gloriously awkward silences and pauses that wouldn't be out of place in Michael Scott's corner office.

Camera controls are mapped to + and -, pause to the 2 button and special attack to the 1 button which just feels awkward, especially when you're low on health and need to go to the pause menu to access whatever items are on hand in a pinch.

Whether it's a localisation issue or just the game's style, cutscenes also feel overly long and dialogue not natural enough in flow — awkward pauses, silences and irritatingly slow scene transitions (all of which are not skippable) bring down what otherwise are, for the most part, interesting developments in the main storyline of protecting NLA.

Unfortunately all the game's dialogue was recorded line by line which resulted in awkward pauses during character conversations.

Six hours and 650 patrons later, with the occasional awkward pregnant pause of indecision and booed outcry of contempt for error or confusion in calling out a taken piece, Robb all the while kept the crowd rapt and ready for more.

Another appears caught in the awkward pause between poses.

You pause deniers are in a very awkward and painful position.

[FN82] Still, others have raised sufficient concern with regard to the impact of shared custody on children of all ages to give courts pause in fashioning arrangements that will require awkward or disruptive schedules.