Sentence examples for stop applause from inspiring English sources

In a country where eliminating public support for the arts can be used as a campaign stop applause line, it may seem unthinkable, but there was a time when a court prima donna pulled a greater government salary than a cabinet minister.

Music stops; applause persists.

I somehow regained my seated position on the board and immediately submitted again to gravity, zooming down, down, down, until I slid to a gentle stop amid applause from fellow boarders.

As Pausch walked into the standing ovation, he tried to stop the applause, get the audience to sit down, and begin the speech by commenting "make me earn it", to which one member of the audience responded "you did".

(Not that that stopped audience applause).

Mr. Minczuk emphasized the continuity between the works by proceeding straight into the Ligeti without stopping for applause.

Once the music stops the applause is endless and you are considered "critical" and "unsupportive" if you don't hit your feet.

The full set ends quickly — it runs only six minutes — and Mr. Nott moved immediately into the opening Adagio molto of Schubert's Symphony No. 4 ("Tragic") without stopping for applause.

Without stopping for applause (a request honored by the audience), Ms. Rothenberg then played Schoenberg's Three Piano Piece, Op. 11 (1909), in which the break is all but decisive.

This was the kind of night in which a cache of celebrity announcers — chiefly the actors Ben Vereen and Wendell Pierce — did their best with a ponderous script, stopping for applause at every mention of a Ray Charles or a Bessie Smith.

Even though Mr. Tetzlaff stopped for applause and a moment offstage between the two works, his use of exactly the same coloration he brought to the Chaconne at the start of the Adagio drove home the point almost as clearly as if he had moved directly from the partita into the sonata.