The bigger man, in the passenger seat, is impatient, restless, but he pauses to think.
He pauses to think a process that occasionally puts our conversation on hold for awkwardly long interludes.
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He pauses and sidetracks and makes you hold your breath, but sometimes, he really sticks the landing.
"--he pauses, picking his words--"for a way of impacting more ... more than a narrow community of scientists.
Asked what the return on stocks will be over the next 30 years, he pauses for a second or two.
He pauses and sidetracks in a way that makes you hold your breath, but sometimes, he really sticks the landing.
And sometimes on warm breezy summer afternoons like this one, he pauses to see if he can see what he has grown.
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He pauses his presentation for a moment and I can tell he is struggling to find the best way to present his next point.
He pauses to check a text message from his wife, who's home with their toddler son in Culver City, asking what time he'll be back.
Asked what job that would be, he pauses to think.
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"Rodin is a great sculptor, " he notes, before wandering off into a musing litany of works he owns: " 'The Kiss, ' 'The Thinker, ' 'The Shades, ' 'Eve, ' " he pauses.
He pauses before continuing and recalibrates.
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He rarely pauses in his narratives to synthesize or analyze, let alone to judge his powerful subjects, especially those who have been his sources.
"They say that when you can see that peak, it is going to rain, " he says and pauses, letting us voice a little enthusiasm.
He retreated into long pauses before giving the shortest of answers.
"I've never asked a prime minister for anything, " Mr. Murdoch said during his testimony, which was peppered with pauses as he appeared to be answering carefully.
He refused to let the job kill him either, delegating where he could and, in the long pauses of his working days, writing boyish love-letters to his wife.
He slows it down, lowers his volume, and pauses for impact.
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"The Texan acccent wobbled like a learner cyclist, her dramatic pauses sagged horribly and her range of emotions would not have discredited a retiring clam, " he commented.
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