a pregnant pause in a sentence

Examples

1. There is one, however : At the end of a runway show ( in which Altman's models wear nothing ), a pregnant pause is broken only by the declaration of a respected taste maker that the show is a successs, a scene that brings to mind the standing ovation by Harper's Bazaar's legendary editor Carmel Snow when Cristobal Balenciaga briefly stunned his audience in 1948 with his unfitted suits.