Sentence examples for quiet applause from inspiring English sources

As the train rumbled along tracks that bend to the landscape's every whim, it was hard to resist the temptation to break out in quiet applause.

That's as evident in the crowd-pleasing "Arden Court" as it is in the mysterious "... Byzantium," which earns keen attention but only quiet applause.

"When the final whistle went there was quiet applause from our fans so we knew something had gone wrong," said Rory Delap, the Stoke midfielder whose long throw set up the scramble that led to Richard Cresswell's close-range winner.

When it was over, as the audience clapped, Mr. Martinez Forteza patted his thigh in a quiet applause for me, Mr. Drucker shook my hand, and Mr. Langevin flashed me a thumb's up.

Two-and-a-half hours later, as the credits began to roll, there was at first silence and then only quiet, stunned applause.

There was, though, a quiet smattering of applause.

Noon Flashes, Applause, Quiet As Mr. Obama took to the podium, a sea of cellphone lights, like so many fireflies, lit up from the steps of the Capitol to the Washington Monument.

And yet from the moment that Mr. Bush, now the president-elect, raised his hand to quiet the rising applause, it became clear that this would be a muted victory celebration.

The only way rhythmic clapping could continue unabated, Dr. Barabasi said, would be if the audience was polite but unenthusiastic -- if it was satisfied with the relative quiet of synchronized applause.

Mr. Keller's soft-spoken public bearing -- he sought at one point in yesterday morning's ceremony to quiet the sustained applause for him, and later said, "this job is not about me" -- stood in contrast to the public style of Mr. Raines.

In interviews after the balloons and confetti fell to the floor of the Xcel Centre and the thunderous applause quieted, Republican party activists and officials said the speech rallied the party around a candidate of whom many were initially sceptical.