By the time the meeting wound down sometime after midnight earlier cat calls, insults and bursts of applause had ended and only a couple of hundred folk were in attendance to hear the last of those giving testimony.
"The football game has ended, but the cheering, applause and love for Korey Stringer will never end".
He cultivates a fiery, impetuous persona, beginning pieces before the applause has died down and leaping to his feet before the final note has ended.
So it was right that, after the applause for the actual dancing had ended, and the curtain rose to show Mr. Askegard standing alone onstage to receive the audience's congratulations, the first to join him were the company's ballerinas, one by one.
Both performances I've been to have ended with fervent applause and a great deal of earnest Europeans streaming back out into the foyer, their determination re-doubled and re-tripled never to agree with the American practice of spraying the nearest McDonald's with bullets before turning the gun on oneself.
Ms. Netrebko, who had ended the aria gazing upward, suddenly gave a wide smile, driving the audience to even greater applause.
If the opera had ended right here, it would have closed amid discomfort so alarming as to render audiences incapable of applause.
This, he added to sustained applause, "has to stop".
Applause has $765K in seed funding, led by Marc Benioff.
The applause had unintended consequences, however.
By then the applause had stopped completely.
