The phrase
"dead halt" means to suddenly and completely stop something or someone, as if frozen or unable to move forward.
Full definition
The film itself moves with a zombie - like gait, lurching forward and coming to
dead halts before lumbering on.
They even snickered and made jokes about your late - night dates and weekend excursions coming to
a dead halt once the baby arrived.
At the horizon itself, time appears to us to come to
a dead halt.
«We're really at
a dead halt,» NRAO Director Anthony Beasley tells ScienceInsider from the group's headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The so - called «exciting» sequences in Star Trek drag the movie to
a dead halt, only to come back to life again when the characters are allowed to interact.
They both get a decent set of brakes too and come to
a dead halt from 100kmph in a similar distance i.e. 43.11 metres in the City and 44.68 metres in the Verna.
But in Mirror's Edge, if you come to
a dead halt or miss a jump (that's not above a bottomless pit, granted), there's usually a second chance, by swiping and running the other way, quickly changing direction, and hope you have enough momentum this time to overcome the challenge a second time.
Grannan's first feature film, The Nine, is a poetic and emotional study of heartbreak, loss, and euphoria — characteristics of the makeshift community of forgotten and displaced individuals living along the South Nine Street corridor in Modesto, California, where, as Grannan has said, «the American Dream comes to
a dead halt.»
For example, if traffic has come to
a dead halt around the bend due to a car accident, your car will tell you to slow down so that you don't whip around the bend and smash into a stopped car.
do try not to get into the anger and blaming as it tends to being communication to
a dead halt.