It does for us collectively what we do when we are alone reading : it sets scenes; wanders off to some seemingly minor point or character; moves backward and forward, then comes to a dead halt to savor some particularly ecstatic moment.
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The critic also says, " The sardonic quality of'On Reaching Forty'reduces age to a minor milestone; nationhood is elevated to a higher yet deeper plane in'Africa'and in'America . " The Pusher'is a typical Angelou acceleration, but it is'Chicken-Licken'that causes a dead halt ".
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Although he loves his hometown and has won promotions and prizes for his superlative police work, he is frustrated by the lack of a child in his happy marriage and feels too often that his career has come to " a dead halt ."
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During a debate about how to replace a primary election system invalidated by the U . S . Supreme Court, Ballard brought the chamber to a dead halt by refusing to agree to the simplest of actions : bringing the House back to order.
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He's standing at the entrance to the bar in New York's Regency Hotel, and despite the fact that he's bundled up his 6-foot-2-inch, dewy-eyed self under an anorak and ski cap, he has brought most of the traffic in the room to a dead halt.
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No sooner have the characters landed on that moon ( a spot that bears more than a passing resemblance to Northern California ) than the narrative comes to a dead halt, so the characters can be shown scooting around a redwood forest on jet-propelled air sleds.
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Angus McFadyen ( " Cradle Will Rock " ) and Olivia Williams ( " Rushmore " ) engage in some risibly rancorous repartee as Zeus and Hera bickering over Jason's fate _ they don't so much comment on the action as bring it to a dead halt.
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Angus MacFadyen ( " Cradle Will Rock " ) and Olivia Williams ( " Rushmore " ) engage in some risibly rancorous repartee as Zeus and Hera bickering over Jason's fate _ they don't so much comment on the action as bring it to a dead halt.
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Only 16 of the young riders were selected for the championship round, which featured 13 obstacles and a complex combination of step-work that included approaches to fences at a trot, canter, counter-canter and hand gallop as well as the request to come to a dead halt in the center of the ring midway through the jump course.
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By dropping the seduction theory, Dr . Masson concluded, " Freud began a trend away from the real world that, it seems to me, has come to a dead halt in the present-day sterility of psychoanalysis throughout the world . " Dr . Eissler was deeply shocked ( " Just today Masud Khan called me from London and asked me to dismiss you from the Archives.
