The auditorium was packed to the gills and full of applause at the end.
State of the Union messages are notoriously long and diffuse, full of applause lines and policy proposals that no one remembers two days later.
By George Packer January 26 , 2010State of the Union messages are notoriously long and diffuse, full of applause lines and policy proposals that no one remembers two days later.
"Let me know, let me know, let me know" — a little challenge to obstructionist Republicans to put their ideas… State of the Union messages are notoriously long and diffuse, full of applause lines and policy proposals that no one remembers two days later.
"It's time to end it," Barack said to a bar full of applause.
At the conclusion of the president's remarks, there was "fuller, polite applause, though not rousing or enthusiastic".
He gave up, eyes shining, as the room erupted in a full minute's applause despite his repeated efforts to get back to business.
Conventions are always full of cheap applause lines and over-the-top attacks, but it was startling to hear how many speakers in Tampa considered it acceptable to make points that had no basis in reality.
"It's the only way," he shouted happily before hanging up the phone, "to get an honest count!" At the recording studio where he mastered the tapes and where I accompanied him, already hooked on a dozen plans for the future, he included three full minutes of applause.
The Moving Picture News stated that this was the first Shakespeare adaptation by an Independent producer and said, "We were asked to inspect and criticize this film, and there was nothing for us to do but give our full approval and applause, which we do right heartily".
"I always liked to play the game within the rectangle and even now am amazed when a full-back gets applause for a hoof out the park," he told the Scotsman in 2012.
