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Basic Trope: Pausing before speaking means that you're lying. * Straight: Alice asks Bob a question. Bob pauses before responding with a lie. * Exaggerated: Hesitating for even the slightest fraction of a second is a sure sign that somebody is lying. * Justified: Bob needs some extra time to think up a lie and this is a tell. * Inverted: Bob is a Consummate Liar who never hesitates before telling another lie. * Bob hesitates before revealing an Awful Truth. * Alice thinks Bob is lying becuase he didn't pause - ergo, it sounded rehearsed. * Subverted: Alice takes Bob's pause to be this in an interrogation and badgers him on it. Bob is not only innocent but he has a neurological condition and Alice ends up losing her job for her insensitivity to the disabled. *

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  • Hesitation Equals Dishonesty/Playing With
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  • Basic Trope: Pausing before speaking means that you're lying. * Straight: Alice asks Bob a question. Bob pauses before responding with a lie. * Exaggerated: Hesitating for even the slightest fraction of a second is a sure sign that somebody is lying. * Justified: Bob needs some extra time to think up a lie and this is a tell. * Inverted: Bob is a Consummate Liar who never hesitates before telling another lie. * Bob hesitates before revealing an Awful Truth. * Alice thinks Bob is lying becuase he didn't pause - ergo, it sounded rehearsed. * Subverted: Alice takes Bob's pause to be this in an interrogation and badgers him on it. Bob is not only innocent but he has a neurological condition and Alice ends up losing her job for her insensitivity to the disabled. *
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  • Basic Trope: Pausing before speaking means that you're lying. * Straight: Alice asks Bob a question. Bob pauses before responding with a lie. * Exaggerated: Hesitating for even the slightest fraction of a second is a sure sign that somebody is lying. * Justified: Bob needs some extra time to think up a lie and this is a tell. * Inverted: Bob is a Consummate Liar who never hesitates before telling another lie. * Bob hesitates before revealing an Awful Truth. * Alice thinks Bob is lying becuase he didn't pause - ergo, it sounded rehearsed. * Subverted: Alice takes Bob's pause to be this in an interrogation and badgers him on it. Bob is not only innocent but he has a neurological condition and Alice ends up losing her job for her insensitivity to the disabled. * Double Subverted: While Bob may not have been behind it directly he pulled the strings. * Parodied: The pause is absurdly long, Bob looks around the room, desperately coming up with a lie. Alice goes and gets a cup of coffee and Bob still hasn't though of it yet. He then comes out with a Blatant Lies. * Deconstructed: Alice automatically assumes that this is the case and accuses anyone who pauses before speaking of lying. This poisons her relationship with Bob, who is already somewhat introverted; every time he pauses to collect his thoughts, she gets upset and calls him a liar. To make matters worse, word gets around, leading to poor Bob getting a terrible reputation. * Reconstructed: When speaking about her stressful breakup with Bob, she hesitates before explaining how it wasn't really her fault, even though deep down, she knows it was. * Zig Zagged: While Bob is capable of lying without so much as blinking, whenever he says something the audience already knows is a lie, he noticeably pauses. * Averted: Pausing before speaking is merely used when an emotional bombshell is dropped. It is a natural consequence of preparing oneself. * Enforced: ??? * Lampshaded: ??? * Invoked: Alice's best friend Donna tells her "Just come right out and ask him! If he has to think about it, you'll know he's lying through his teeth!" * Exploited: Charlie overhears the conversation, and plays on Alice's fears by hinting to her that the fact Bob paused before answering may mean he wasn't being entirely truthful... * Defied: ??? * Discussed: ??? * Conversed: ??? * Played For Laughs: Bob leaves spaces wide enough to drive a truck through while telling a Blatant Lie... which Alice immediately accepts. * Played For Drama: Alice already knows the truth, but asks Bob anyway as a Secret Test of Character. His brief hesitation draws out the drama before he actually lies, much to Alice's disappointment. Back to Hesitation Equals Dishonesty.
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