He certainly knows how to play up a dramatic pause.

This is going to be one hell of a dramatic pause.

For a long moment the audience believed it was a dramatic pause.

The President, holding on to the dramatic pause, sipped a little water.

After a dramatic pause, he answered himself in a stage whisper.

Was she, the Senator demanded after a dramatic pause, "interested in writing a book?"

In the calculated, dramatic pause which followed, every- body listened.

His dramatic pause might have seemed funny at any other time but Tom was badly worried.

"I will tell you why," Frejeris continued after a dramatic pause.