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"This has to be a night for people to find and develop their own creative talents," said Mr. Castro, "rather than just applaud from the sidelines".
The Tyrant would "applaud from his loge", but the poet from the back rows would hiss through clenched teeth: "You creep".
The audience seems ready to applaud from the minute it buys its tickets: at first sight of a star (presumably to let its neighbors know that the sexy vixen in the slip is indeed Ashley Judd); at long speeches that end loudly (regardless of the quality of the writing); and, in musicals, at the ends of all songs.
Yet such bountiful, if superficial, expressions of regard camouflage a growing gap between those who serve and those who applaud from the sidelines.
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Cheering fans applauded from the Rialto bridge.
People applauded from their beds.
What Mourinho was applauding from the touchline Saturday was a match without goals or grace.
He took his cue from the Tampa Bay bench players, who applauded from the top step of their dugout.
I can hear my old friend the late JK Galbraith – another enlightened Canadian – applauding from the grave.
He mimed the action of writing on the board as he gestured delightedly toward his teammates, who applauded from the balcony of the pavilion.
I found myself applauding from the wings as bolder colleagues took advantage of opportunities I was too frightened or unprepared to seize.
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