Sentence examples for auction atmosphere from inspiring English sources

"Older companies that normally proceed at a more measured pace are being forced to act quickly, otherwise a technology upstart will reach in and take the space, or create an auction atmosphere that drives rents skyward".

In the first of the fall's important evening auctions, the atmosphere was lifeless and the results were mediocre, with examples of artists including Picasso, Miró, Chagall and Leger failing to get even a single bid.

Bo Lomahquahu, a Hopi tribe member and university exchange student who stood outside the auction, said the atmosphere inside was "very surreal and heartbreaking".

In the hothouse, bid-or-pass atmosphere of the auction room, such anxieties are magnified tenfold.

"I'm glad I don't have to live in that climate," he said, referring to the high-stakes atmosphere at the auction.

It is all a matter of psychology, and somehow there is nothing like the competitive lottery atmosphere of an auction to whip it up.

Ruben — you make friends fast in the fevered atmosphere of an auction — had his eye on a weather vane, but he was also there to watch the mid-20th-century lots.

They hoped not just to disrupt but to stop the process and force a reckoning between the antiseptic atmosphere of the auction and the grim consequences of the eviction.

Buying a very expensive work of art is not just about acquiring a product; it is also about the jet-setting lifestyle it brings with it: the pleasure of being courted by the floppy-haired specialists who work for the auction houses, the testosterone-fuelled atmosphere of the saleroom or the intense partying of the art fairs.

It was the atmosphere, as if the auction had been held in another world.

manage to combine world-class lots with the atmosphere of a country auction.