Halt
Halt verb - To bring (something) to a standstill.
Run into
Run into verb - Collide violently with an obstacle.
Both terms in one sentence
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She left Lloyd's company and made a stab at a career of her own, appearing in this film as well as Wings, but her career also ground to a quick halt with the arrival of talking films.Tropes: Contrived Coincidence: Clem just happens to run into Van in a public park.
Source: Film / The Power of the Press - This is because while it's often okay to just see someone telling these, or point the camera at a page (and thus this does not run into Show, Don't Tell), doing it for too long would just grind the action to a halt (or even be longer than the work trying to tell the story).
Source: Separate Scene Storytelling
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Run into and Halt. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/halt/run_into
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Run into or Halt. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/halt/run_into.
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