Nicholson paused for a moment theatrically.

Becker paused theatrically, drumming his fingertips on the desktop and then stroking them bowlike across one another.

Libertad paused theatrically, waiting to be prompted.

"I'm never offended by questions," she said, pausing theatrically before adding, "but sometimes by the answers."

"Discipline," he said, pausing theatrically and then whispering, "and guilt."

The commander paused theatrically.

The man's snarling monologue paused theatrically.

I paused theatrically at the threshold.

Penry turned, his face set, as the door flew open and a tall woman in a clinging white dress paused theatrically on the threshold.

He paused theatrically, as though we should consider this a serious question, where obviously it was not.