Intermission in a sentence as a noun

TIL that intermissions don't exist in a lot of countries.

A lot of Bollywood films on the other hand have well defined "half time" or intermission.

There's also an intermission baked-in to Kubrick's 2001 though only once have I seen it used as intended.

Are you really zipping through the piece that fast that a five second intermission is too much to tolerate for a free massive article?

Then one night, during a the intermission of a hockey game, a humorous moment happened between the analysts.

The thrill of making that pattern work in Pacman, and the rage of your last man getting eaten a mere 3 dots away from getting to see the 3rd intermission.

In fact, there's no way in **** I'm buying anything at all even before the movie starts if I know it's a 3 hour "epic" that won't have an intermission.

I remember my local cinema in the UK having an intermission back in the 80's. I remember my dad buying me an ice-cream during Back to the Future 2 from a lady that came round.

Girls he took to the theater had to wait until the first intermission to find out from him whether or not they were seeing a good or a bad play, and then found out at once.

Sometimes I wonder if there are any "distros" of TV shows out there on torrent sites with "intermission" screens instead of simply editing out commercials.

Leaving time for an intermission to see how well this story is received, how well the actors actually are perceived and providing the funding and traction for the next movie....

You don't want to be in the middle of a talk and some part of your brain pokes you about not having used the washroom, and another part of your brain idly speculates about how the audience would respond to an intermission...Same with eating a reasonable while beforehand.

"School" didn't originally mean "child processing factory" or whatever it is now. Here's what Etymonline has for it [1]:"place of instruction," Old English scol, from Latin schola "intermission of work, leisure for learning; learned conversation, debate; lecture; meeting place for teachers and students, place of instruction; disciples of a teacher, body of followers, sect," from Greek skhole "spare time, leisure, rest ease; idleness; that in which leisure is employed; learned discussion;"That seems pretty close to what you're doing.

Most music venues have a blanket license for performance rights with the main rights organizations, which clears the rights for live use of just about anything: stuff like the venue playing a CD as background music during intermission, a band playing a cover song on stage, or a DJ playing tracks or remixing samples.

Only, we are not a source of direct energy but glazed eyeballs glued to television; to sticky content sites, checking news sources and aggregators to see if there's anything new in the last five minutes; succumbing to the urge to find the latest thing for Twitter or HN or Reddit to gain artificial scores; sitting through CoD intermission for the next round rather than quitting; getting worked up as the mainstream papers inflate another trivial issue to incite response.

Intermission definitions

noun

the act of suspending activity temporarily

noun

a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

See also: pause break interruption suspension