President Bartlet's Wristwatch

Bartlet glances at his wristwatch immediately after hearing of the death — a tactile moment that quantifies urgency, prompts his instant market estimate, and punctuates the shift from analysis to time‑sensitive executive decision‑making.

Bartlet glances at his wristwatch immediately after hearing the news; the watch punctuates the escalation of urgency, quantifies imminence (market opening), and helps Bartlet impose a temporal buffer by insisting on a day to decide.

Bartlet glances at his wristwatch as a physical tick‑mark of time and anxiety: it punctuates Leo's exit, signals the pressure of decisions (Fed timing, trade bill), and underscores his nervous pacing during the argument.

The President's wristwatch punctuates the scene when Bartlet glances at it as Leo leaves — a tactile timing device that signals urgency and impatience and tightens the encounter's tempo.

Bartlet glances at his wristwatch during the scene, a tactile timing device that tightens conversational tempo and signals his conscious measuring of political urgency and meeting schedules amid the domestic fight.

The President glances at his wristwatch as a pacing device; attempting to read it without his glasses emphasizes distraction and impatience, compressing the scene's tempo while signaling the President’s need for temporal control amid emotional chaos.

The President glances at his wristwatch when reminded the director is waiting; the watch punctuates urgency and schedules the forthcoming meeting even as Bartlet struggles with composure and vision.

A wristwatch is glanced at by Toby as he finishes his evasive answer — a tactile cue that compresses time, signals impatience, and gives him a pretext to leave. It punctuates the scene's transition from private confession to public procedure.

A wristwatch is glanced at by Toby to create a natural exit cue; the look serves dramaturgically to compress time and signal duty, enabling him to close the exchange without antagonizing reporters while restoring Sam's privacy.

The President's wristwatch functions as a timing device and visual cue — Bartlet glances at it during exchanges, and Charlie later points to it to cue the President, which decisively moves the rehearsal toward its conclusion.

Bartlet glances at his wristwatch which reads a few seconds before midnight; the watch functions as the dramatic timer, marking the threshold of the execution and intensifying the urgency of the confession.

President Bartlet glances at his wristwatch; its reading ('a few seconds before midnight') functions as the dramatic hinge that precipitates urgency and marks the threshold between legal finality and the need for confession. The watch punctuates his realization and bodily compels him toward sacramental action.