As the emails ping into our inbox we answer them helter-skelter, breathlessly, without pausing to reflect on nuance or tone.

BBC: A Point of View: Mourning the loss of the written word

Yet thousands of visitors pass through each day without pausing.

BBC: What most people miss at Machu Picchu

"Groups would play for an hour without pausing, not to be mobbed or screamed at but in hopes of an ovation, " critic Nik Cohn wrote about musicians in the caption.

CNN: Guitarist Alvin Lee of Woodstock fame dies at 68

Upon this unusual plot, which manages to seem at once slender and wholly implausible, the South Korean director Park Chanwook has constructed a highly wrought, low-lit piece of gothic, worrying away at our senses without pausing to check that his story makes any sense.

NEWYORKER: Oldboy

"Fashion comes and goes, but all this remains, " said Armani as he climbed seven flights of stairs without ever pausing to catch his breath.

WSJ: The Future of Armani

But there is something about a small town that has never gone a single day, in almost 150 years, without a passenger train pulling in and pausing to see if anyone would like to step out onto the streets of Garden City, or if anyone from Garden City would like to climb aboard and join the other cross-continental travelers...

CNN: A Kansas town tries to keep the train coming through