A lingering roar of approval prompted two encores: Wolf's picturesque "Gesang Weylas" and Schumann's sly "Waldesgespräch" (Op. 39, No. 3).
No more stiff-bristled assertions of alpha-male supremacy or lingering shots of Rossetti roaring at the ceiling with his britches around his ankles.
What happens next is not so much a prolonged cheer as a giant embrace, loud and lingering, the biggest nightly roar for someone not named Kershaw or Puig, many folks even standing, everyone cherishing.
The roars of approval were still lingering in the air when Gennady Golovkin, the recognized champion at middleweight, was mentioned afterward.
When he sank it to roars from the crowd – one of the feel-good moments of the day – any lingering tensions felt resolved.
He guided his side to a sound 82 for two but his dismissal triggered a lingering, inevitable, collapse and Scotland lost eight wickets for 74 runs, while the Edinburgh crowd roared away regardless.
A roar of celebration rose up immediately from the crowd of thousands of protesters still lingering in Tahrir Square, where a television displayed the news.
Flames roared through the halls of Mr Mubarak's National Democratic Party in Tahrir Square, where youths danced amid the lingering fumes of tear-gas around the smouldering wrecks of overturned police vehicles.
And then, with the shooting over and gunsmoke lingering in the air, Thetlani nodded to Paxton, who extinguished the flame and saluted her to the roar of helicopters and fighter jets overhead.
But if Mr. O'Brien was soaring, Mr. Letterman was roaring Wednesday night, unleashing a torrent of biting commentary about NBC, and digging into his apparent lingering bitterness about how it threw him over for Mr. Leno in the early 1990s.
