Sentence examples for shake audiences from inspiring English sources

"We want to shake audiences up".

(Any takers?) BRANTLEY I think of David Mamet's "Race," which opened earlier this season on Broadway and was clearly intended to shake audiences out of their cozy perceptions of blacks and whites in comfortable co-existence.

But, far from wanting people to hurt each other, Joe Strummer (vocals, guitar), Mick Jones (guitar), Paul Simenon (bass) and Terry Chimes (drums) insist that their aim is to shake audiences into channelling their frustrations into creative outlets.

Cannes has a tradition of shaking audiences up, sometimes all the way out the nearest exit.

He may have brought in Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Motherf**er with the Hat to shake up audiences and programme printers, but he also presented Farquhar's The Beaux Stratagem.

What does it say about our idea of femininity that women in wigs, corsets, stilettos and seven ounces of make-up can sing, strip, get groped and shake to audiences in the name of gender fuck?

What does it say about our idea of femininity that women in wigs, corsets, stilettos and seven ounces of makeup can sing, strip, get groped, and shake to audiences in the name of gender fuck?

Blasted is a deeply moral play that creates horror in order to shake its audience out of any sense of complacency.

Across town at the Finborough, another small but potent pub theater, a rare revival of John McGrath's "Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun" (1966) is stirring and shaking sellout audiences.

It may sound zany but there is a daring and originality to the concept, as well as a sense of risk that could shake up audience and performers alike.

In 1990 Mr. McNaughton shook up audiences with the unnerving "Henry," a creepy, chilly flick with a lot of skill and no heart (though I do believe you can see one peeping through a victim's rib cage).