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applause and audience
The audience last night did not respond with either applause or boos to mention of Hughes' remark.
She was generous with her encores and the audience was equally so with its cheers and applause and flowers.
The audience, according to Edward Cushing, responded with " a demonstration of enthusiasm impressively genuine in contrast to the conventional applause which new music, good and bad, ordinarily arouses.
Agrippina and Lucius received greater applause from the audience than Messalina and Britannicus did.
" The whole audience acclaimed him through standing ovations five times ; there were handkerchiefs in the air, hats, raised hands, so that Beethoven, who could not hear the applause, could at least see the ovation gestures.
The term slapstick was taken from the wooden sticks that clowns slapped together to promote audience applause.
They emerge from the wreck to enthusiastic applause from the audience, who assume the crash is part of the entertainment, and when Sarris attacks again, Jason kills him with an Ion Nebulizer ( blaster pistol ) and receives even greater applause.
In a quarterfinal playoff blitz game, she forced Joël Lautier, France's strongest player, to resign in 12 moves when she won his queen which resulted in the audience of several hundred bursting into applause.
At the request of the Philharmonic director, all applause was held, and the audience filed out in silence.
Furthermore, Plutarch reports that at the next Olympic Games: " Themistocles entered the stadium, the audience neglected the contestants all day long to gaze on him, and pointed him out with admiring applause to visiting strangers, so that he too was delighted, and confessed to his friends that he was now reaping in full measure the harvest of his toils in behalf of Hellas.
Harding had rushed through his speech not waiting for applause by the audience.
) Nevertheless, the first act was met with applause and cheering at the end ; but in the second act, the audience began to turn against the performance, especially after the singing of the baritone ( Felice Varesi ) and the tenor ( Lodovico Graziani ).
After much applause following the first and second acts, Wagner spoke to the audience and said that the cast would take no curtain calls until the end of the performance.
Metropolis had its premiere at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo movie theater in Berlin on 10 January 1927, where the audience reacted to several of the film's most spectacular scenes with " spontaneous applause ".
After giving a frustrating speech to the audience, he leaves the stage, backed by applause.
Nevertheless Luzhin ( White ) is shown playing the illegal winning move to wild applause from the audience.
Friz Freleng used the Jones idea for Daffy in " Show Biz Bugs " ( 1957 ) wherein Daffy's " trained " pigeon act ( they all fly away as soon as Daffy opens their cage ) and complicated tap dance number are answered by nothing but crickets chirping in the audience, whereas Bugs's simple song-and-dance numbers bring wild applause.
Guy Noir's popularity is such that the first few notes of the theme or the first lines of the announcer's introduction (" A dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets ...") often draw applause and cheers from the audience.
In any case, his efforts at making a living as a pianist (" I finally heard some applause from a bald man and said ' thank you for clapping me ' and he said ' I'm not clapping-I'm slapping me head to keep awake '"), evolved into comedy as he found he got laughs by playing wrong notes and complaining to the audience.
The audience bursts into applause, realizing Kaufman had tricked them.
Springer then enters the stage by sliding down a pole stage right, usually being greeted by audience applause, shaking hands with random guests at the front row and the " Je-rry !, Je-rry!
This disappointment was swiftly mitigated by the acclaim which followed the first performance of the complete Má vlast cycle in November: " Everyone rose to his feet and the same storm of unending applause was repeated after each of the six parts ... At the end of Blaník final part the audience was beside itself and the people could not bring themselves to take leave of the composer.
He relates his imprisonment of them to that of his own bondage, which can only be undone by the applause of the audience.

applause and on
The crowd staged its own mad scene in salvos of cheers and applause and finally a standing ovation as Miss Sutherland took curtain call after curtain call following a fantastic `` Mad Scene '' created on her own and with the help of the composer and the other performers.
It then sailed to Gibraltar, arriving on 18 October to the cheers of the garrison: Saumarez wrote that " We can never do justice to the warmth of their applause, and the praises they all bestowed on our squadron ".
In Juvenal's account, he seems to have relished the scandalous self-display, applause and the disgrace he inflicted on his more sturdy opponent by repeatedly skipping away from the confrontation.
His speech met general applause, but little commitment to the Olympic ideal he was advocating for, perhaps because sporting associations and their members tended to focus on their own area of expertise and had little identity as sportspeople in a general sense.
His speech is interrupted with applause on many occasions.
Once the convention came to order, Arkansas Senator James K. Jones, chair of the Committee on Resolutions, read the proposed platform to cheers by many delegates ; the reading of the pro-gold minority report attracted less applause.
On the night of 24 November, Dubček appeared with Václav Havel on a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, he was greeted with uproarious applause from the throngs of protesters below, embraced as a symbol of democratic freedom.
* Vaudeville Revue: Skits and songs were presented in variety-show style on stage, with music fanfare and canned applause to introduce and end each segment.
Afterwards Bizet informed Galabert that on the basis of proportionate applause, hisses and catcalls, the work was a success.
This incident was chronicled in a derisive poem, based on the Longfellow poem " Paul Revere's Ride ;" it began with the line, " Come gather round children and hold your applause for the afternoon ride of Charlie Dawes.
His speech, which was broadcast live on Polish radio and via speakers on the streets of Wrocław, about the right of everyone to hold different views from those who hold power, was enthusiastically received by the delegates and was met with thunderous applause.
He stopped just after the line: " The lesson today is how to die " to loud applause with the lyrics taking on a whole other meaning.
The " surviving " performers are voted on by the audience, with the one receiving the most applause winning a prize or some cash.
They then went on to cite specific examples of techniques utilized by both Lifespring and EST, stating that both used " authoritarian trainers who enforce numerous rules ", both groups require applause after a member's " share " in front of the group, both deemphasized reason, in favor of " feeling and action ".
This " impassioned " speech " against war on Iraq, or immediate war on Iraq ", won " an unprecedented applause ", reported the BBC's Sir David Frost ( BBC News ).
" Susan Hayward sings for the first time on the screen, and will win much applause for her throaty voice in such songs as Sing, You Sinners, When the Red, Red Robin ( Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin ' Along ), and I'm Sitting on Top of the World.
In the Constituent Assembly he belonged to the section of moderate royalists who sought to set up a constitution on the British model, and his speeches in favour of retaining the right of war and peace in the king's hands and on the organization of the judiciary gained the applause even of his opponents.

applause and first
At Bayreuth a tradition has arisen that there is no applause after the first act of the opera.
" At following performances some believed that Wagner had wanted no applause until the very end, and there was silence after the first two acts.
Eventually it became a Bayreuth tradition that no applause would be heard after the first act, but this was certainly not Wagner's idea.
In 1899, Ravel conducted his first orchestral piece, Shéhérazade, and was greeted by a raucous mixture of boos and applause.
Less than a year later, he received his first personal applause for dancing a Hungarian solo at the Court Theatre.
At Chelsea's first home game after Osgood's death, against local rivals Tottenham, there were many tributes as well as a minute's applause.
After the first act the curtain was rung up a dozen times during the applause.
In his second at bat, Garciaparra got the game's first RBI to yet another lengthy applause.
His first great success was achieved by La vendemmiatrice, an Italian intermezzo or operetta, composed for the Aliberti theatre in Rome and received with universal applause.
New laughs, chuckles, and even applause were recorded for the first few episodes so they would sound fresh and new.
On August 8, 1988, during the first scheduled night game at Wrigley Field, Morganna the Kissing Bandit almost kissed him, but was intercepted by park security ; he knocked the next pitch out of the park, to thunderous applause.
Legend has it that at the first performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, during the applause immediately after the performance, Mravinsky took the score in his hand and waved it above his head.
In spite of the success of these first ventures, Gleyre retired from public competition, and spent the rest of his life in quiet devotion to his artistic ideals, neither seeking the easy applause of the crowd, nor turning his art into a means of aggrandizement and wealth.
Well-recognized politicians or actors often receive applause as soon as they first appear on stage, even before delivering their speech or speaking their first lines.
The interesting part was that when the symphony ended, there was no applause at first, just an unusually long pause — so long that I even thought that it might be some sort of conspiracy.
On his 33rd birthday, Petrov visited his teammates on the first day of their pre season training, and was presented with a cake by the players, who sang happy birthday to him and gave him a round of applause.
In November 2008, upon his return to the Reebok for the first time since his departure, Sammy stated that he bore no animosity towards the hierarchy at Bolton or their supporters, the Wanderers crowd responded by giving the man they called " Little Sam " a round of applause in appreciation for his spell as player and assistant manager.

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