It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion.

He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.

At the very end, when the audience was silent and breathless, a collection was taken and then slowly everyone filed out.

It was not so much that the shot had stunned the audience, as that they had been stunned already.

The audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.

One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in that which he does not fully understand.

To reach a still greater audience of location-minded manufacturers, our industrial advertising budget for the fiscal year was increased from $32,000 to $40,000, and the Industrial Building Authority's financial participation was upped from $17,000 to $20,000.

Woodbury's remarks were applauded by a portion of the audience several times and once there was hissing.

Every pitch in the game brought forth a howl from the enraptured audience and every fly ball the visitors dropped ( and because their right fielder was still a little fuzzy from drink, they dropped many ) called forth yelps of derision.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters.

The husky 6-3, 205-pound lefthander, was in command all the way before an on-the-scene audience of only 949 and countless of television viewers in the Denver area.

The Denver-area TV audience was privileged to see Mays' four home runs, thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to be blacked out when his Bears are playing at home.

It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.

She was not present yesterday, however, to enjoy the music or watch the faces of the delighted audience.

The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.

So the audience last night was all ears and eyes just after Act 2, got a rousing opening chorus, `` Where's Charley??

Along about 4:30, just when it was getting to be about time to turn the audience over and toast them on the other side, Judy came on singing, in a short-skirted blue dress with a blue and white jacket that flapped in the wind.

Under his editorship, the committee produced a book called Language and Public Policy ( 1974 ), with the aim of informing readers of the extensive scope of doublespeak being used to deliberately mislead and deceive the audience.

Moore was famous for " corpsing " — the programmes often went on live, and Cook would deliberately make him laugh in order to get an even bigger reaction from the studio audience.

International broadcasting is broadcasting that is deliberately aimed at a foreign, rather than a domestic, audience.

To compensate for the fact that the vast stage took up most of the room in what is really an average size exhibition hall, the Director deliberately darkened the hall where the audience was located and refused to use wide angled shots of the audience, in order to create the illusion of the venue being bigger than it actually was.

Soul Unlimited was not well received among its target audience of African-Americans, ostensibly due to its being created by a white man ( Clark ), and because of its alleged usage of deliberately racial overtones despite this fact.

Mr. Rogers deliberately makes clear the distinction between the " real world " and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe by transitioning in and out of the Neighborhood segment via a distinctive red and yellow model electric trolley that enters and exits through small tunnels in the wall ( or occasionally by setting up small tabletop models of the various Neighborhood of Make Believe buildings ), and by discussing what had happened with his audience after the end of each segment.

Dirksen had a unique style as emcee, deliberately baiting and trading insults with audience and band members, which had the effect of raising the energy of audience and performers alike.

“ He seems to be deliberately challenging the audience: My lyricism and mastery come complete with thorns and spikes, and I promise to yank the props out from under you ,” quoted John Litweiler, longtime Down Beat jazz critic, in an article he wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times.

For a director to deliberately avoid close-ups may create in the audience an emotional distance from the subject matter.

Despite the assumption of many TV station executives, the series was not aimed at children but deliberately sought an older audience ; many episodes featured adult themes such as adultery, divorce, and drug use.

As was common in many of his sketches, Kaufman was deliberately provoking his audience in this routine once they realized that he actually intended to sing all of the verses.

Besides describing music of a distinct genre that becomes broadly popular, the term " crossover " has sometimes been used to describe music that deliberately mixes genres, whether or not this music proves to be popular with a mass audience.

For Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills, the band agreed that they were deliberately seeking a new audience, claiming they wrote a number of songs for the release and rejected any that sounded like earlier work.

Chen Kaige, however, deliberately leaves the audience in the dark, making Zhongliang's flight from the Pang estate all the more mysterious.

Ofcom stated that the BBC ' deceived its audience by faking winners of competitions and deliberately conducting competitions unfairly and fined the corporation a record £ 400, 000 of which Kershaw's BBC Radio 6 Music show was fined £ 115, 000 for seventeen shows in 2005 and 2006.

Churchill deliberately uses the notion of cross gender, racial and age casting to unsettle the expectations of her audience.

In conversation with François Truffaut, Hitchcock said that he included the scene deliberately to show the audience how difficult it can be to kill a man.

In the name of art, media may deliberately attempt to break with existing norms and shock the audience.

Shock advertising or Shockvertising is a type of advertising generally regarded as one that “ deliberately, rather than inadvertently, startles and offends its audience by violating norms for social values and personal ideals .” It is the employment in advertising or public relations of " graphic imagery and blunt slogans to highlight " a public policy issue, goods, or services.

John might be mistaken about his belief that I have a wife, or he might be deliberately trying to misinform his audience, and this has an effect on the meaning of the second sentence, but, perhaps surprisingly, not on the first one.

Shock advertising or Shockvertising is a type of advertising generally regarded as one that “ deliberately, rather than inadvertently, startles and offends its audience by violating norms for social values and personal ideals .” It is the employment in advertising or public relations of " graphic imagery and blunt slogans to highlight " a public policy issue, goods, or services.