To make matters considerably worse, any Kirov (any Russian) season is accompanied by numerous audience members who behave like a claque, talking (usually in Russian) right through the dancing, applauding through the music, creating what ovations they can for individual dancers.
The 2,200 people packed into the Kress Events Center – mostly students, whose flagging enthusiasm Mr. Obama desperately needs in this contested swing state – soaked up the details, laughing and applauding through discussions of derivatives, visibly grateful for a speaker who didn't condescend to them with the usual platitudes.
I had been irrationally excited about it, and as the moment came around, I instinctively started nudging my way through to the front, applauding the selector on his arrival.
I'd been irrationally excited about it for absolutely ages, and as the moment came around I instinctively started nudging my way through to the front, applauding the selector on his arrival.
After the first run-through, which he applauded, it was time for notes and coaching.
And the audience stood in the Howard Gilman Opera House, applauding and cheering through multiple curtain calls, until some of the performers' drawn faces softened into small smiles.
The women attending Christian Dior's first New Look collection, who were wearing the frugal clothes imposed on them since the war years — short, narrow skirts and boxy jackets — started applauding early in the show and kept on applauding right through the final ovation.
However, critics praised the game's replay value, applauding the many possible paths that a player may take through the game.
It ended a spiky relationship between the two, which included Guardiola sarcastically applauding his medical staff on the bench upon his players being forced off through injury.
As my name rolls through the stadium's speakers, I step into the ring, music blasting overhead and the crowd applauding.
