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While other comics do fake news (Stephen Colbert is the form's undisputed champion), the Onion's gift is never to break character or seek applause.
That I needed to seek applause or approval from the world.
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It seeks applause.
But, as he relives his past, Sher becomes a dapper, spring-heeled joker whose desperate desire to be liked is symbolised by his use of the old vaudevillian trick of extending his hands as if seeking applause.
And when you seek your applause from within, you don't need the applause of public approval.
Instead he seeks cheap applause by telling the Scots how he will extract money from England.
Or the home secretary seeking cheap applause at the party conference by announcing curbs on migrants' appeal rights?
Mr. Buckley left as quietly as he came, without seeking the applause of the lawmak ers or the attention of the press.
I have not sought the applause of the Parisians: I am not an operatic performer.
He seeks the applause he craves by stoking the anger of an alienated minority.
Modern public gardens, which have evolved from the large private gardens of the past, seek instant popular applause for the quantity and brightness of their flowers.
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