The reader might well pause to consider the preponderant friendliness and appreciation which most of the kings and princes showed in response to Muhammad's call.

A reader pauses to reach for the bicarbonate.

One scene, however, the hastiest reader will momentarily pause on: that of Anacharsis Clootz and the Collective sinful Posterity of Adam.

Such sinister high hokum might be ridiculous if McCarthy didn't keep it moving faster than the reader can pause to think about it.

Some of the information is so interesting that, even in a work of fiction, a reader pauses now and then to think about what he is learning.

Here the reader, as they say, might pause.

Genji's was so remarkable that the reader paused to comment upon each line.

Although American readers might pause over the schoolgirl slang, there's pleasure in the sound of this new voice - cheeky and proud of it.

Hard material will grow easier to handle, because links to primers and basic definitions will let readers pause for review - instantly, privately, and without embarrassment.

This becomes particulary ironic when the reader pauses to remember that Batman and the Joker are comic book characters themselves--of course they would behave this way.