The massed crowd choruses thrive on loudness and congestion.
Panning over a silent, massed crowd of refugees from Jisr al-Shughour and surrounding villages, the videographer remarks, "These are the reforms of 2011, which Mr. President has promised us," before children begin chanting "We want our fathers!" By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By Robin Wright By Ian Parker By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By Robin Wright.
Nelson was given a hero's welcome and after being sworn in as a freeman of the borough and received the massed crowd's applause.
Simply do as the massed crowds surrounding them do: watch agog, but from a safe distance.
In front of massed crowds or on television, he can sound sunny and inclusive, radiating a feel-good centrism.
There are still people writing poems, of course, and publishing them, and some people even buying them, but the age of poetry readings to massed crowds has gone.
And though the rugby scenes take up relatively little screen-time, they are vivid, violent and frenetic, with massed crowds of working men roaring on the touchline.
In recent days, Tymoshenko has put her street protest experience to good use on behalf of Yushchenko and the massed crowds of protesters on Kiev's Independence Square and its broad central street, Kreshchatik.
Yet he did make things anew, and reinvigorated figurative sculpture with his massed crowds of laughing, grimacing life-sized Chinese figures (whose heads were all derived from the same Belgian art nouveau bust), his choreographed single and multiple groups, his lone dwarf standing at the end of a long corridor, or among columns.
Alison Steadman's Shetland (ITV) sent the actor to the subarctic archipelago of Scotland that plays host to massed crowds of puffins, guillemots, storm petrels (who will vomit on you if you go near their young, one guide informed us, "and it's a full stench"), cormorants and gannets because, it claimed, she is a keen birdwatcher.
With massed crowds in play, both observer and participant get a sense that history itself has signed on, and that nothing will be the same again.
