| 单词 | claque |
| 例句 | He also organized a cadre of professional applauders, known as a “claque,” to provide enthusiastic ovations, demand encores, and cry “Brava!” for any performer willing to pay. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then he proceeded to mimic the way I spoke, giving me what he perceived to be a Gcaleka accent, at which his own claque laughed heartily. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be more correct to say that since neither needed a claque I was forgotten on the sidelines. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And suddenly a claque of women crowded to the door and overflowed into the yard. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It competed against the inchoate mob howl and the rhythmic cries of the Fundie claques that formed mob-islands within the mob. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In exceedingly rare cases, a dancer takes the step of challenging the claque in public. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z And as he did, he later recalled, screaming erupted from a claque of Beatles fans in the balcony. Victor Spinetti Dies at 82; Actor in All 3 Beatles’ Films 2012-06-20T03:42:37Z Geller and her claque pretend that they are the beleaguered defenders of a dire threat to 1st Amendment guarantees of free speech. Images of Muhammad and a Texas cartoon show's sketchy purpose 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Those who approve of the claque say it transmits the sound of a vanishing generation, ordinary working people raised with a passion for classical ballet. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z This behavior was refined in the theaters of 18th- and 19th-century France, where the term “claque” — from the phrase “to clap” — was coined. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z On the night I went the claques were so fervent that verdicts were distorted. Back to the Apollo, Uptown?s Showbiz Incubator 2011-02-07T15:09:18Z Bellini’s “Norma” opened to boos, some probably from a claque that supported a rival composer. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Cutting-edge fashion, as defined by a noisy claque of magazine editors and bloggers, is not their friend, they know. Old Hollywood Vavoom Dominated on the Emmys Red Carpet 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Cue the claque and all the usual suspects. Django Unchained: is its portrayal of slavery too flippant? 2013-01-10T21:00:04Z But dancers’ reticence to talk about the claque is also out of self-preservation, since the Bolshoi’s claqueurs are known as thin-skinned and vengeful, with a range of inventive strategies for interfering with performances. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z And many performers remember the thrill of being singled out by the claque as teenagers, identified as one of the select few who would go all the way. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z Subsequent performances, minus the claque and the celebrities, will surely be more responsive. Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z This gang, he learned after finishing his song, was a claque that expected to be paid for its applause, and most assuredly was compensated for the cheers it delivered for his second number that night. Sting to Perform at the Metropolitan Opera 2010-07-12T21:43:00Z There’s no mystery about what happens when the claque disappears, Mr. Abramov said. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z His performances were greeted with jeers, boos and a claque shouting, "Left, right, left, right," until his career crashed into oblivion. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z A woman in a watermelon-colored tunic, evidently the mother of a performer, approached him in the corridor, hoping to enlist the claque’s support at an upcoming performance. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z With a claque like that it is easy to see why her self-esteem floats blandly along,” Sulzberger concluded. ‘Price of Fame,’ a Biography of Clare Boothe Luce 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z DeSantis and his claque assert that Florida’s statistics are skewed by its older demographics, and that he should be praised for focusing on keeping Florida’s seniors safe. Column: Florida's DeSantis launches new attack on his state's transgender citizens 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Yet the medicine, most commonly used as a dewormer for farm animals and household pets, has been taken up as a cause by a right-wing claque of anti-government and anti-vaccine activists. Column: Texas court says you can't force a hospital to give you ivermectin for COVID 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z As we reported recently, the generic medicine, most commonly used as a dewormer for farm animals and household pets, has been taken up as a cause by a right-wing claque of anti-government and anti-vaccine activists. Column: The most striking side effect of ivermectin appears to be stupidity 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Dozens, scores, cliques and claques of elephants, ears flapping like flags, trunks slowly swinging, and many of their faces decidedly free of ivory eruptions. How Teeth Became Tusks, and Tusks Became Liabilities 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z So do the attacks on Mr. Mueller from the Trump claque in the House of Representatives. Opinion | One year of Robert Mueller 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z There’s a claque alongside to cheer the big boss and deride his doubters. The Music Donald Trump Can’t Hear 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z To a small claque of idiots out to prove a point, America is a fundamentally flawed concept unworthy of redemption. A Celebration of Immigration 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The movement for police reform was not the invention of some leftist claque. Racism, violence and the politics of resentment 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z In French theatre, groups of professional clappers, known as "claques", were hired by performers to make them appear more popular with audiences. Why are MPs banned from clapping? - BBC News 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z No book in years has commanded the kind of volunteer claque which is now pushing an unassuming first novel toward the best-seller list's summit. 'Mocking Bird Call': Newsweek's 1961 Profile of Harper Lee They were accompanied by a cheering claque of supporters. Scottish referendum: this is the hardest campaign I have ever had to call 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z He arrived with “a big claque,” an observer later recalled, almost certainly with Stoddard in tow. How Mark Twain became Mark Twain: The amazing story of the lectures that made him a superstar 2014-03-22T20:00:00Z We are the vocal claque of high-tech evangelists that keeps capitalism alive. The Xbox One launch and technology's summer of ... meh 2013-05-22T16:38:14Z This marathon is being played simultaneously and in real time by bankers and politicians in all Europe's capitals, while a claque shouts "two weeks to save the euro" over and over again. Eurozone crisis: the bankers are happy to play Nero as Europe burns 2012-07-31T20:00:01Z On Wednesday, MPs and their media claque were baying for the sight of handcuffs round Diamond's wrists – as they were round Rupert Murdoch's. Parliament, not Leveson, is the best place for this inquiry 2012-07-05T20:00:00Z Even after he knew my name and called to me, I tried to avoid Kleppel and his claque of senior citizens. Essay: Remembering the Mets? First Spring in 1962 2012-02-20T01:29:51Z We were in tremendous spirits, and applauded quite as vigorously as the claque which occupied the row behind us. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z Those words drew choreographed chants of approval from a claque in the audience. Effort to Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires in Iran 2012-02-02T19:15:10Z In order to drown any manifestations of displeasure, the pit was occupied by an organised claque of policemen in plain clothes and theatre attendants. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z Treasury — will disintegrate into heavily armed tribal claques and bandit syndicates. The Pakistanis Have a Point 2011-12-14T10:00:00Z It was a preliminary of nearly every scheme they floated to first "fix" the newspapers, either for silence or claque boosting. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z I turned rapidly round, and ran my eye over the claque, and then to the astonishment of my comrades, I took my hat and slunk out of the theatre. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z Which side won?” for the announcement of the judges was drowned in a roar of the cadet claque, led by Buttertub, who had struggled back to his place in time to head the ’Rah! Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z The d�butante was received politely but cordially—an indication that there was not a strong claque, which was a relief. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z There are hired claques in the conventions which keep up a humming cry which is a substitute for applause, and which is sometimes continued for a quarter of an hour. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z That was the select battalion of the claque which understood how to raise the flag of fame on high, but also how to tear it down and trample it in the dust. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z The last words of a song were hardly over before the claque broke out with a deafening applause, and we and the whole pit followed their lead with right good will. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z A gentleman in black with ringlets and a tuft stood gazing fiercely about him, with one hand in the arm-hole of his waistcoat and the other held his claque. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z Patti is not one of them—who carry with them on their foreign tours a chef de claque as a member of their ordinary suite. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z But, just as he did during the campaign, Obama has relied on only a tiny claque of trusted aides for advice on the major decisions confronting him. Can Obama Change the Game Again? 2010-10-28T09:00:00Z And always there is a chattering claque of militarists, calling for jihad and insisting on ever greater exertions, while remaining alert to any hint of backsliding. The end of (military) history? 2010-07-29T15:45:00Z The institution of the claque, people hired by performers to applaud them, has largely discredited the custom, and indiscriminate applause has been felt as an intolerable interruption to serious performances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" His free sandwich men occupied the front row of arena seats and had been coached by the leader of the Grand Opera claque. H. R. The ten attendants, apart from their special duties, form a useful claque, and are kept judiciously distributed about the house according to their various social positions. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z They are not only a useful claque, but they pay. The Book of This and That The orchestra thunders and crashes down below; the comfortable audience lean back in the stalls; the foreigners jabber in the gallery; the Orient claque interrupts its euchre with hired applause. Carnival But why did you not save in the fat years, instead of spending your money on a miserable claque, in order to spoil my show? The Intriguers And the unanimous reply was, "You are!"—from the claque. H. R. He began by starting a claque of which he constituted himself chief, and which was at the service of any of my singers who chose to pay for it. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z Nevertheless, she was applauded to the echo, the claque worked hard; and Prince Waldemar, from his box, clapped as if he had been paid for it. Black Diamonds Some find lucrative employment, applause being paid for, and the different parties having each its claque in the galleries. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty Play it as you have done here and we need not fear Bauquel’s claque. The Intriguers The little claque gained recruits, and within moments the air was riven by the thunder of thousands of palms meeting in unison. Assassin These people are usually under a chef de claque, whose duty it is to judge where their efforts are needed and to start the demonstration of approval. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Cam reflected that it probably would have, even without the claques he had planted. Telempathy The accusing refugee, who looked a hairy ruffian indeed, was supported by applause from a claque of Finns, Ruthenians, Lithuanians, Esthonians, Latvians, and others who had a dislike for the Russian Empire. Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings How the dear old Papa’s eyes would lighten up at the news of his success, when he told him the tale of how Bauquel’s claque had been silenced. The Intriguers "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Lemaitre and Dorval of the manager: "did you not promise that your claque should be discharged?" Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 The convention was singularly tumultuous and noisy: large claques were hired by both Lincoln's and Seward's managers. The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. NB. a claque is a group of people hired to applaud. Telempathy “We can dispense with the claque,” he said. The White Mice My first piece did not touch them much, and the Bauquel claque, as Degraux warned me would be the case, did their best to hiss me down. The Intriguers So she arranged privately for a small claque of her own, and that night she also was applauded. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 In his wife's hands the good man was wax; now a mere echo, now a veritable claque in himself, he pandered indefatigably to the multitudinous vanities of a ludicrously vain woman. Stingaree The kind of claque that is so common now—which opens suddenly like a chorus of cicadas in the "Idylls of Theocritus"? Confessions of a Book-Lover Is there anything in the world so disgusting as to feel one's self patronized, made capital of, enrolled in a claque? The Simple Life And then, suddenly, Bauquel’s noisy claque burst forth in a storm of hisses. The Intriguers My claque is discharged," said he; "and now there are, I perceive, three claques instead of one—yours, madame's and the whole company's. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 At the end of the performance he sent for the leader of the claque and rated him soundly. Artists' Wives The admitted existence of cliques and claques in London makes us distrustful. Confessions of a Book-Lover Apart from the pretensions of his claque, there is no earthly reason why a critic should hold him up to ridicule. My Contemporaries In Fiction The hisses of the Bauquel claque could no longer be heard. The Intriguers Your horrible claque splits my ears," he cried in a fury: "I expect you to get rid of it at once. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 "There is a Governmental claque that starts all these demonstrations" said one of them. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Mad and livid with rage Clodius, in the very midst of the shouting, kept putting the questions to his claque: "Who was it who was starving the commons to death?" The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order One's head inclines to ache by reason of listening to the three-cornered claque on the Tariff as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. The Masques of Ottawa He is very astute on the business side, has worked his Press well, and always maintains a vigilant claque. The Intriguers The claque is an institution so openly recognized in French theatres that the proudest dramatic or lyric temple in Paris would not know what to do without it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 In the rear rows, a claque started a steady handclapping, and cat-calls and hisses from unmannerly boys became more and more frequent. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life At Paris theatres, and especially at the opera, the next best thing to having a good company is to have a good claque. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 But the devil himself stands behind the stage bush to prod these zealots into the limelight and the next moment to lead the claque in the gallery. The Masques of Ottawa He has a powerful press, and he employs a big claque. The Intriguers Well, gentlemen, I am the victim of the dishonesty of the chef and sous-chef of the claque. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 "Oh, if there is a claque, the rest of us don't need to exert ourselves," said the Lawyer, indolently. Told in a French Garden August, 1914 There is a regular contractor for the opera claque, receiving so much a month from each actor. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 A claque of his supporters replied with feigned enthusiasm, but a malcontent at Alice's side rose and stamped to the door. The Half-Hearted But it is a big risk to run you in the place of Bauquel, and as soon as he gets wind of it, he will send his claque to hiss you.” The Intriguers Oscar faced the American Philistine public without his accustomed claque, and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 This mannerism had no purpose beyond indicating to the audience the end of a passage and giving the claque the signal to applaud. Musical Memories The captain of the claque is an important personage, respected by his subordinates, courted by the actors, and skilled in the strategy of his profession, which yields him a handsome income. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Will madame permit the poor Estelle to be present?—Estelle, who will not dare to sing before those celebrated ones, but who will applaud, applaud—in herself a prodigious claque! Prince Fortunatus But little difficulties and deceptions of this kind notwithstanding, Dr. Véron approved the claque system, and constituted himself the friend and defender of Auguste. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The Liberals, on the other hand, with forces somewhat scattered—the round Irish chorus being especially so, in the remote distance—did not seem equally well-organized from the point of view of the claque. Sketches in the House (1893) "Reader" was a euphemism for a patient audience, including claque. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 This same emotional contagion is, of course, the psychologic basis for the French system of the claque, or band of hired applauders seated in the centre of the house. The Theory of the Theatre The applause in the gallery and in the standing groups filling the outside aisles was uproarious and clearly represented an organized, carefully planted claque. Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment Dr. Véron has said, perhaps, all that could be said for the claque system; but his plausible arguments and apologies will not carry conviction to every mind. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character And one portion of these tactics was to introduce into the House of Commons a phenomenon new to even its secular and varied experience—namely, an organized claque. Sketches in the House (1893) If the claque has the courage of its opinions—but stay, can a claque have any opinions? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 The leader of the claque knows his cues as if he were an actor in the piece, and at the psychologic moment the claqueurs burst forth with their clatter and start the house applauding. The Theory of the Theatre This never happens in England, partly because every 'first night' is attended by a claque, judiciously posted and naturally well disposed. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" The chef de la claque was, of course, supplied with admission tickets by the management, and these were issued according to an established scale. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Beyond all question, recognizable by the unmistakable family features, it was there—the organized theatrical claque on the floor of the British House of Commons. Sketches in the House (1893) If ever any set of men came into a theatre "with orders," the claque is that set. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 They had carefully organized their claque in Europe and America, especially in America. Korea's Fight for Freedom It was their fault that it got about that I had hired a claque to clap me! The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections The manager detected the claque system as a pervading element in almost all conditions of life. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character No need of a claque, no room for sham demonstration here! Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 And Paris applauded feverishly, and yet with a full sense of the value of its applause—given there in the only French theatre where the claque has been suppressed. Sacred and Profane Love The score or so cops in the audience, who are sitting together in a nervous claque, are absolutely cracking-up. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier As to paid claques, presentation-tickets, patrons, advance agents, all the booming and flattery, the jam of the powder for an English audience, he had no idea of the existence of such things. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 "Because they don't all know the head of the claque as I do." The Quest A gentleman in black with ringlets and a tuft stood gazing fiercely about him, with one hand in the arm-hole of his waistcoat and the other holding his claque. The History of Pendennis I wondered if they did not miss the claque, to which actors are so accustomed in France. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters Nevertheless, though the place is peopled only with silence and solitude, the claque continues to do its duty, for it receives its pay. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) A devoted claque of your own, by the way, is among your requirements. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 The discrepancy was sometimes explicable by claques, which are almost as discreditable to managements as the keeping of tame critics, who eat food out of their hand. Without Prejudice Not a single hand was moved, and I was afterwards informed that this was fortunate, as the slightest attempt at applause would have been ascribed to a paid claque, and would have been energetically opposed. My Life — Volume 1 I did not even see the chief of the claque. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters The first day there was a cram, the second day only the claque remained. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) The star was a fat man with a husky tenorino voice, who sang drunk and half-naked to a protecting claque of ten thousand hands. Imperial Purple The claque was there as it had originated in the Stone Age and was afterward adapted by the French. Rolling Stones Oscar faced the American Philistine public without his accustomed "claque", and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1 Yesterday two of my own nomenclators—young men, I admit, about the age of those who have just assumed the toga—were enticed off to join the claque for three denarii apiece. Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 Near us some men, many of them officers, formed a sort of claque to cheer the advocates of Neutrality. Ten Days That Shook the World Mad and livid with rage Clodius, in the very midst of the shouting, kept putting questions to his claque: "Who was it who was starving the commons to death?" Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero These young men were what is known on the East Side as "patriots," that is, devoted admirers of some actor or actress and members of his or her voluntary claque. The Rise of David Levinsky Ah! what a claque it was, after all! Tales of Trail and Town The applause contractor, or chef de claque, is an important factor in French theatrical affairs. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo And they succeeded in packing the galleries of the Convention Hall with a perfectly organized claque-"rooters," the modern American would say. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Lem Perry, the leader of the claque, had a somewhat set speech, being uninventive in the construction of new phrases. Roads of Destiny |
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