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. *