Sentence examples for strange audience from inspiring English sources

It would have to be a really strange audience who had all paid £20 to sit in silence.

By Shirley O'Hara, Russell Maloney, and Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, January 29 , 1944P. 13 They are getting strange audiences these days at "Harriet," including scholars who know all about the Beechers and the Stowes.

Or maybe that isn't so strange: her audience undoubtedly felt the same feelings — of being dazzled, really — that I felt when I saw her play at Dizzy's.

Sorrentino's films take place in a world of strange things: the audience is jolted, startled, woken up, but woken up into a more intense, more lucid kind of dreaming.

These works were either inspired by devils and mischievous creatures or feature, as Ms. Cuckson told the audience, "strange and mysterious sound effects that make you wonder: how is that done?" According to Tartini, the Violin Sonata in G minor appeared to him in a dream in which the Devil offered his servitude in return for Tartini's soul and then played the violin with dazzling mastery.

Opabinia looked so strange that the audience at the first presentation of Whittington's analysis laughed.

There's sort of a blasé kind of quality in the face of things that are extremely strange to the audience and to the main character.

For an independent release, it had a strange sort of audience and kept selling three or four years after we recorded it; it still sells more copies than when it first came out".

She had a strange power over audiences, and over her backing band.

Do you ever get strange reactions from audiences for being an all-girl punk rock band?

In Terrence McNally's 1975 comedy, The Ritz, Puerto Rican spitfire, Googie Gomez, minced no words as she informed one of the bathhouse's clients "I was in a production of Camelot once -- dat show was a piece of chit!" And yet, because of its idealism and some of its musical numbers, Lerner & Loewe's lumbering show continues to exert a strange appeal on audiences.