Incredibly, the audience howled for more - and, what's worse, got it.
The reception of "Confucius" by the generation of Chinese born after 1980 — near- universal brickbats and howls for more screenings of "Avatar" — is a fascinating microcosm of that still-evolving relationship.
Herod spends the play slouching in a throne and howling for more wine, pleading with his stepdaughter (played by Jessica Chastain) to take her clothes off.
Murderers and cops, journalists and racists, the people howling for more bloodshed, the people begging for calm, all of us working together on a single production, and all of us following the script to perfection.
Murderers and cops, journalists and racists, the people howling for more bloodshed, the people begging for calm all of us working together on a single production, all of us following the script to perfection.
Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic had battled each other in the howling wind for more than four hours and gotten nowhere.
At Squaw Valley, sustained winds of 100 mph howled at the peak for more than an hour, speeds that typically peel shingles off rooftops.
Steele, no surprise, backpedalled fast after the howls of protest and screamed for more troops to win the war.
Will he actually be seen, in the White House, dripping with the viscera of his political opponents, howling at the full moon for more, more, more innards of his enemies, to sate his thirst for vindication?
