Sentence examples for held the room from inspiring English sources

She held the room in her hand".

She held the room in her hand". A year later Bachmann would run for – and win – a state senate seat.

In elegant evening gowns and a pixie haircut, she held the room with her smoky voice, delivering songs unadorned.

For two hours Brooks talked and talked and occasionally sang, all in that distinctive Brooklyn burr, and for two hours he held the room in the palm of his expressive, spade-like hands, using a teleprompter for help.

With her deep antipodean accent, Hicks held the room mesmerised as she tenderly and carefully told the story of her torturous wait for rescue, and the "new normality" of disabled life.

He was followed by DeLillo, who held the room with a haunting ode to the oldest books in his collection, including Carson McCullers's Reflections in a Golden Eye, Dylan Thomas's Adventures in the Skin Trade and Fyodor Dostoevsky's The House of the Dead.

After the applause ended, she stood perfectly still, her eyes cast down, holding the room in silence.

It goes well – her charisma holding the room together, her sexuality a quality that entrances at least half the room.

The result is many a distorted shape pulled by those holding the room down.

She says the hotel still agreed to hold the rooms, so long as the delegates paid for their room.

This can be improved by averaging the trigger indicator over time, holding the room-change detection for a while after the first trigger.