pull up short การใช้

• It is like telling Oprah to pull up short of the studio audience.
• And did you suddenly pull up short as you noticed, in the sand, the footprints of a man?
• The violins seem to pierce the dancer's soul as he pulls up short and, seizing his chin, emits an inaudible, Edvard Munch-like scream.
• And, bejabbers, didn't the horse pull up short, just like Napoleon in the film, in front of Cohan's public house with only a sly wink from the coachman?
• "Sometimes I think they're in it more for the glory than for winning, " said Moore Sr . " We used to catch those kinda balls in the outfield, and not pull up short on the first bounce.
• Too often a powerful sense of nostalgia ( at times sincere, at times with a hint of irony ) displaces confrontation, and Updike, all too gently, pulls up short ( most disappointingly in " Bech Noir " ).
• Chastened by the instant error almost all of us made in assuming the Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City was the work of Middle Eastern rather than Middle Western terrorism, we pull up short from jumping off the same cliff again.
• Here we are on Friday at the front, such as it is, with tank rounds throbbing in the distance, only training we are told, and more American cargo planes due to land as one pulls up short and whirls around to try again.
• The super-tight ensemble of 11 gives pride of place to a softly insistent continuo _ harpsichord, cello and / or two lutes _ then, adding recorders, violins, viola, violone and lutes as demanded, it pulls up short, or flares into bursts of flamenco-like intensity.