What do you call the small tube with ink in a pen? It looks like magic, the pen seems to be floating in midair! But I'm guessing it's lying on a glass top table, neat illusion though PS When the ink dries up, it's "time to buy a new pen"
word choice - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Freezing in midair: Much like the second sense of "stop", this implies a longer timeframe and hence a physical impossibility It certainly doesn't imply "having difficulty keeping that position"; someone "frozen" is understood to be paralyzed and powerless