The man looks across the rapidly thinning audience at me, just as I'm staring at the fellow that saved my life. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And during the intermissions—there was always an intermission of ten minutes halfway through the concert—he delivered short talks on musical appreciation to the audiences. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several members of the small audience laugh, and a few, including Bailey, applaud. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ll receive your...countrymen in audience tomorrow afternoon at Second Hour. Is there more needs saying now?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He became very aware of the audience around them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At a late 1963 rally in Philadelphia, Mr. Muhammad, embracing me, said to that audience before us, “This is my most faithful, hard-working minister. He will follow me until he dies. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A titter of audience appreciation came from the couch. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I heard some laughter from the audience and realized that Luke had wriggled to the front and was miming the words to the song. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I sit nibbling my fingers as the university auditorium fills with the audience, which is composed largely of men. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she ate her cereal and milk, as she dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, as she brushed her teeth, she pictured herself greeting the audience with a fine “Salutations.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the audience cut me a lot of slack, because I was the famous gunter Parzival, and I was clearly having a blast. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s nothing like on TV, where operating rooms are like pristine theaters that could accommodate an opera singer, and an audience. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would like to invite you to our show to talk to our audience about what led you to make this movie, and the message you were trying to convey. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The thought of him almost distracts me from the fact that I'm about to have my first semi-private audience with the queen. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She acknowledges her audience with a subtle bow. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maya Lin watched from a spot next to the Wall where she could see both the speakers and the audience. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, the whole audience is on their feet. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The audience doesn’t seem to realize that there was a gunman in here. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The audience will be restless, thirsting for blood. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered my notes, hoping to face Gregor Whitman without an audience. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Frankie announces their presence, and DJ Ren’s wall changes from our phoenix to a horde of skeletal beasts in hooded cloaks riding on horseback, charging through the audience with swords drawn. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In fact he himself seemed composed and even detached, which was more than could be said for any other rabbit in the audience: but Pipkin was hardly to realize this. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience roars as Penn’s life bar drops from Max’s blow. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He paused dramatically before his vast black audience for God to act, but God declined. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, God, I thought, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soon all the childrens are gathered round, and when Vinny realizes he has an audience, he goes faster and faster with the wooden sticks, what you call them? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’m ready to kiss him again when his eyes move away from mine, beyond the stage and into the audience. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Ellsberg has been hailed as a hero by a lot of people,” Cavett told the audience, “condemned as a traitor by others.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A guy with headphones comes out and talks to the audience about when to clap and when to be quiet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I do not, however, treat myself to hot-cocoa enemas before an audience of invited guests. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

That the people in the audience have likely felt grief and confusion and powerlessness. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On the night of October 30, 1938, only a small percentage of the national radio audience was tuned to CBS’s War of the Worlds broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know anything that I haven’t seen from a seat in the audience or read in a book. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She would turn the music up really loud and dance through the apartment, with Tiger her only audience. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second time, the policeman asked, "Is that your dog, little girl?" and Sandy walked across the stage and sat at Stage-Annie's feet, and once again the audience broke into applause. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he looked confident as he gazed around the room, waiting for his audience to settle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Many people in the audience didn’t even realize that he was on the bill. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Yet the plot couldn’t be cluttered with too many settings and characters because the audience kept track without visual hints. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

At this point, the other children, who were seated as if they were the engineers in Dad’s audience, nudged each other, arose, and tiptoed out of the room. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It won’t take long for Dorian to ask me for a private audience.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He lay back and fell silent, listening to radio caller Clem McCarthy tell his audience about the crash of Fair Knightess. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of purple capes roared in the audience as House Hyacinth celebrated their champion. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Local newspapers panned his lecture as rambling nonsense, and he couldn't attract audiences. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“There is a touch of color in the audiences, too, for the Osage Indians...often are stoical but interested spectators,” the Associated Press reported, deploying the usual stereotypes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All I need is luck, Woolf told a rapt audience. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He utters a line that never fails to make the audience laugh. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The man scoffed, his shoulders up in a shrug, and he looked about the audience as if he needed validation that Kaisha was absurd. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I found your performance curious, and the reaction of your audience somewhat perplexing. You were lacking in precision.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jonas didn’t know what she was referring to, but he could sense the discomfort of the audience. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But some members of the audience thought I was denying racial pride, trying somehow to deny my racial identity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard Louis and Connor finishing up, the audience clapping halfheartedly. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They moved apart awkwardly Oprah was on the TV in the den and she heard the audience erupt in applause. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, wonderful. An audience for my humiliation! The normal deal, I suppose? You’ll let me go if I answer your question?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A short, bald white man steps forth from the audience. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Thanks to his global audience, thousands of paper chains are arriving at school every day. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

For two tributes to have a shot at winning, our "romance" must be so popular with the audience that condemning it would jeopardize the success of the Games. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Then that little man in black there,” she said, pointing toward one of the men in the audience, “he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes. But of course she had only called up forty-nine to the stage. Then she apologized to the audience.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he placed the gold medal over my head, just like they do in the Olympics, and had me turn to face the audience. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

"You've been acting for years. Just not on a real stage, with a real audience. This is going to be easy." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was happy to have an audience so he could argue for the divine creation of human beings. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience dives out of the way below him, clearing a space of bare, hard ground below. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the end, the actors took their bows and Ms. Udell thanked the members of the audience for their time. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Fora moment the audience is quiet, but then they go wild, standing up, screaming. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Debate? No way. I get too nervous when I have to talk in front of an audience.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

But now, with word that the president will be in the audience, the night should be a sellout. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I change the illusion to my apartment and have the audience glide through like one of those virtual house tours on the internet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“This play is called ‘Our Town,’” he said to the audience. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

This audience of fashionably dressed planters made her feel that she was little better than a trained animal, brought out for their amusement. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

An audience digesting war as spectacle may have a very different idea of the correct ethos for an eve-of-battle speech than the men at the sharp end. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The media fawn over Bill Cosby and other figures when they give stern lectures to black audiences about black men failing to be good fathers and failing to lead respectable lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was still getting the hang of speaking in front of large audiences, but this would be one of the biggest assignments yet. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“And,” Hubert continued, “for the dimwit in the audience, an asterism is a prominent pattern or group of stars.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The speech is so long and so unexciting that people in the audience begin shifting their feet and then lowering their heads and slipping away into the night, off to search for a real celebration. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Olmsted had intended the report for a professional audience, one that would take for granted Jackson Park’s fundamental acceptability and value the report as an unflinching guide to the challenges ahead. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A round of applause passed through the audience at that, and Wanda smiled. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had finished shouting the whole of Mark Antony’s speech and most of Lochinvar before he realized that he had lost his audience. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks out at the spellbound audience, then at the floor, then finally up at Caesar. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy starts to walk away with the other escorts, who will return to their seats in the audience. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Like everyone,” Karen says, but there’s so much noise from the audience. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“That is what the audience says when a person bound hand and foot is shut into a cabinet—and disappears.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mary wants to give the doll to some poor little girl in the audience who is named Mary.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems that they had arrived at the theater late, and rather than trip over the feet of the audience already seated, they decided to sit in the last row, which was empty. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The import of the remark was clear to his audience: it meant that two young soldiers, who had been standing trial for the murder of a Kansas railroad worker, had received the ultimate sentence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A prerecorded studio audience whistled, cheered, and applauded. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Thus an Italian opera, typically, was a series of well-defined ‘numbers’, a glorified variety show, with something for everyone and plenty of opportunity for lead singers to have their turn at impressing the audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Thousands of avatars came to every show, to sit in the stands and revel in the audience participation. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The audience guffawed at this spontaneous addition to the script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The invisible audience lets out a thunderous cheer. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was one line she flubbed a bit, but Justin covered for her, and no one in the audience even noticed. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They act as though this is a message black audiences have not heard many times before from their ministers, from their family members, and from politicians who talk about the need for more “personal responsibility.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When it was time for the festival to begin and I’d given the tech person the thumb drive with our movie and the bonus footage on it, I walked back out to the audience. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The rest of the class went to sit in the audience with Mr. Jackson. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Both girls salute each other, the referee, the audience. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

During the course of the speech, the audience is said to have visibly moved away to leave Catiline isolated—something Cicero didn’t stint to point out. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He gestured toward Turner, then drew the eyes of his audience back. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then again, I never imagined I would save the Old West, perform for an audience in the desert, and solve a mystery. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Unknown to the audience, the paper was blank. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The announcers’ voices ring out reassuringly as they try to organize the audience. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the audience of doctors has assembled behind the one-way glass, clipboards ready, pens poised. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then there’s Buddy Gui, coming up in front of the whole audience, and all the vuvv judges are going crazy. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was still red in the face when he got up to speak, and you could tell he was looking out at the audience for the carpenters and plasterers. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

"We understand, O Brainy One!" cried the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The resulting jangling, sparklingly dissonant sound, which is brittle, full of edgy attack and a kind of out-of-tune resonance, would have been - literally - unimaginable, even terrifying to audiences of the day. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There was a sound of dreadful confusion on the stage, the audience was in an uproar, and the curtain was quickly rung down. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she thought about dancing in front of an audience full of strangers in four short days, she wanted to throw up or die. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He seemed to know just the right note, the right word or phrase to rouse the emotions of his audience. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a lot like reading your audience when you’re playing in a tavern. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Someone in the audience yelled that she needed another shot of heroin. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The people in the audience waited; the atmosphere was tense and charged. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marlena spreads her arms in the air, turning to give each section of the audience a chance to adore her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he had performed it, fully staged before an audience at Ford’s Theatre. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are so many people here,” Dimple murmured, peeking through a little opening at the audience. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sounds of the audience’s cheers abruptly go silent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Oppie’s campaign took form in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on February 17, 1953, before an elite audience of opinion makers and financial leaders, Strauss among them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There were some titters in the audience, so I figured it was safe for me to start out by saying to the minister, “I was his girlfriend.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I'm just watching, an audience of one, watching secretly. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused, the audience gaped; he cried, by way of amplification, “Tooth and nail!” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Nor did the kings skimp on eye candy for the home audience of Alexandrian Greeks. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“You can, or at least I can, get a read on the audience. We were bringing something they hadn’t seen before. When I did that, I heard some gasps, then it was dead silence.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The comic line spoken by Harry Hawk, “You sockdologizing old mantrap,” was followed by an explosion of laughter from the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a ghetto instinct; for instance, I could feel if tension was beyond normal in a ghetto audience. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like it’s going to be a big audience,” Mom said. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The core of the audience he saw in his mind’s eye consisted of those adult white males who owned sufficient property to qualify for the vote. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The angel’s head was turned, and his sweet face seemed to be watching over the audience from the clouds. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dad pulled Mom down for another kiss, this one at the corner of her mouth, which was how Dad liked to kiss Mom when they had an audience. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The audience probably thought it was for dramatic effect, but I was mostly trying to steady my breathing. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Anderson and other prominent performers were urged to announce publicly that they would no longer appear before segregated audiences. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily, however, artists also need patrons among their audience who will purchase their work, thus combining moral and financial support. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Tamba sat in the audience smiling for the first time since we had arrived in New York City. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Is there any poor little girl in the audience named Mary?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some in the audience hadn’t even sat back down yet. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“The surprises,” my mother says, “are for the audience.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They would’ve taken a fourth if the audience members hadn’t started filing out. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And now a subtle change was coming over the two hundred and fifty watching children in the audience. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the Yangtse River and pretended that all the busy people in the boats were my audience. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course if you had to choose an audience for illicit love based on the people you’d least like to have hanging around, Piper and Isaac would win hands down. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skill is to find the ones that will hold most sway with your intended audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

His rolling periods impressed his audiences, but if the chief object of rhetoric is to persuade, Churchill’s didn’t—much of the time—do that. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Beatriz sits in the audience, hand covering her mouth, whispering to her friends. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As the dedication ceremony continued at the Apollo, the master of ceremonies, activist-entertainer Harry Belafonte—yet another childhood “uncle”—framed the importance of this historic moment for the audience assembled. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And radio stations will play only a small number of songs that have been proven by market research to appeal—immediately and overwhelmingly—to their audience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The group also requested “an audience for not more than two minutes in Washington as soon after your arrival as possible.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Which is probably why I’m still sitting in my seat when the audience starts applauding. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want her taking the stage until the audience had worked itself into a frenzy. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I watched the intent faces of the listening crowd and they were the faces of an audience. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the last one ended, the audience responded with a standing ovation. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

One final manifestation: Before the advent of radio, TV, and film, musicians, athletes, etc., could develop loyal local audiences since they were the best that most of these people would ever see. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tried out the piano and examined the public address system, a battery of six microphones that would broadcast the event to those present at the Memorial and also to the national radio audience. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

In the moment I grabbed the bar, I heard my sister Adria’s voice screaming my name from somewhere in the audience, and then I caught sight of Lexie jumping up and down and cheering. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As the Villac Uma took a tumi, a ceremonial knife, from his pouch, I noticed that the sacrifice of a llama was different without an audience to impress. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“To tell the audience I was singing despite a broken ankle would smack of searching for pity, and I was not there for pity that night,” she recalled. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He remembered a tall man with a ginger beard, and the cheering and whooping of an appreciative audience. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Arnold looked out over the audience, sitting in a circle of light, and the audience went wild. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than doing interviews with big newspapers or cable news outlets, I began sitting down with influential “mommy bloggers” who reached an enormous and dialed-in audience of women. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger spat out one last fireball into the air—its size made even the bravest in the audience step back—then put down the torches and picked up his juggling balls. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A small crowd, hardly an audience, gathered around to follow the moves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The death of Violetta was meant to strike shame into Verdi’s audiences’ hearts, as it did the meddling father of her lover in the final scene. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When the audience finally settles down, he chokes out a quiet "Thank you" and returns to his seat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The audience explodes into chaotic noise all around us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hooray!” cried a voice from the audience, and several people applauded. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

At first, the audience took her quick stagger and shocked expression to be part of the play. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At this moment less of a conclave and more of an audience. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I was exchanging greetings with the audience when she appeared, the kind of woman who glows as though consciously acting a symbolic role of life and feminine fertility. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience inside the theater erupts with applause as I turn to leave. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“How dare you, brazen fool! How dare you demand an audience of the emissary with nothing to show him!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Last year he used little so that the audience would recognize me when I landed in the arena. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But as she scanned the audience, who was clearly enjoying it, she settled into a bemused headshake. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When he stepped up, he looked into the audience and felt he could “read in every face the expectation of something strange to be done or to happen.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

By the time I’m introduced, the audience is an absolute wreck. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the end, she even took off her candy necklace and tossed it into the audience. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

At his seat Bobby studied the stage from the audience’s perspective, seeing it as they must have seen it for two months, when they’d watched the combatants in profile. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The white people in meeting audiences would throng around me, asking me, after I had addressed them somewhere, “What can a sincere white person do?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

More precisely, they hear Kenna and their instinct is that he is the kind of artist whom other people—the mass audience of music buyers—are going to like. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Members of the audience tripped over theatrical props. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The troubled white audiences were confused, disturbed, felt themselves threatened. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the freshmen are pretty geeked to be missing first and second period, which makes them the most wildly awesome audience ever. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The audience gives a big laugh and the president puts his arm around me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The audience leaned forward, eager to learn how this magic was going to be performed. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, the audience was still arguing heatedly among themselves, so nobody seemed to notice as they scrambled toward the door. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he focused on one girl from the audience, held her gaze, pointed at her, then continued on up the stairs, saying nothing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Within ninety minutes, Soviet and European television audiences watched a live telecast of Valentina in her capsule. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Balekin’s gaze sweeps over the audience, and though I know it will not settle on me, I still flinch. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I looked around, and there must have been a million people in the audience. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Kaede flips her hair at the audience and strikes a mock pose for them, which makes them go wild. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

People in the audience clapped and cheered; even the referee applauded my efforts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The play began and Billy yelled his lines so all the sailors sitting in the audience on deck could hear him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“What would you really like to say up there to that studio audience?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But it also felt so nice that it made me want to sing for an audience again. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In his parents’ parlor to an audience of distinguished Bostonians, then in the homes of those distinguished Bostonians, in colored meeting houses and Methodist churches and lecture halls throughout New England. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“May I hope, madam, for your interest with your fair daughter Elizabeth, when I solicit for the honour of a private audience with her in the course of this morning?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

They taught well-heeled Athenians how to construct speeches and sway audiences. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The audience is a vast, dark field of unpredictable creatures moving and fidgeting. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the University of Ghana’s Great Hall, I addressed the largest audience that I would in Africa—mostly Africans, but also numerous whites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And never with such people for an audience—all black people with their faces smiling bright, the sounds of their voices all around us like music. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If she does well, the audience cannot fail to notice. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a look of serpents in those eyes of hers as they flashed around the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was a roared response from the great audience’s Muslim seating section. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that, the audience applauds, an ocean of clapping and whistling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was a good fight without an audience? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

They just freeze until the noise subsides—what else are you going to do when your audience acts boorish?—then pick back up with the dialogue. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I need not have worried about the former; no one in the audience or on the stage had paid the least attention to my jottings. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

When she acknowledged that the recognition by the University of Wisconsin was the first they had received, the audience gave the women a standing ovation. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it is the first time I have danced it in front of such a large audience of critics and other dancers. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

So decorum is, literally, speaking your audience’s language. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Tim does a quick card trick with a volunteer from the audience, then returns to the stage to set up the main event. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

As he spread out his arms and fluttered toward the floor, the audience applauded wildly. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

My arm is about to fall off from waving when Caesar Flickerman finally bids the audience good night, reminding them to tune in tomorrow for the final interviews. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Miss Teen Dream theme song played under the audience’s thunderous applause. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

This time it pierces the now nearly shredded paper in between the words “audiences” and “spectacle,” obscuring the “with” completely. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Barack looked out at the audience and into the TV cameras, and as if kick-starting some internal engine, he just smiled and began to roll. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It is interesting, in that light, to note that the outsider’s invective is typically more stern and solemn: an insider, more comfortable reading the audience’s social codes, can risk a joke. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

After a visit to Italy in the spring of 1598, when he had an audience with the Pope and visited holy shrines, Ferdinand came back determined to wipe out the Protestant influence in Styria. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

After an audience with the Emperor, he was appointed Imperial Mathematician, granted a good income and offered a choice of three castles in which to set up his observatory. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He wants an audience while he rants at me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The pleasant feeling it gave me was unaccustomed, too, and gave me a small hint of what the players must experience when the audience applauded their efforts. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The judge asked that Mrs. Henderson be subpoenaed, and when Momma arrived and said she was Mrs. Henderson, the judge, the bailiff and other whites in the audience laughed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience applauds as, one by one, the judges come over and say “Congratulations!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

As we took our seats onstage, the almost-full audience clapped and cheered. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that is what the audience thought would happen. That is what everyone anticipated. But it was not what happened.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reynolds shielded her eyes from the footlights to see out over the audience. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the stage, I can barely make out anyone in the audience. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When I sat down before the council, Samantha Power, the United States Ambassador to the UN, introduced me to the audience. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For a moment the monsters in the audience were caught completely by surprise. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

For a start, his radical notions questioned the foundations of their discipline, seldom an effective way to generate warmth in an audience. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The manager and the audience were all holding their sides, laughing. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

In The Winter’s Tale, a character named Time announced to the audience that sixteen years had passed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

That’s when I noticed several flashes and looked out to see a few people crouched around the stage with cameras, and some in the audience were recording the whole thing with their phones. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

About the only audience he could count on was a bearded character everyone called the Mad Russian, who had been wandering Sequim’s streets barefoot and muttering to himself for as long as anyone could remember. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Not long before Henrietta’s first exam, TeLinde presented his argument about carcinoma in situ to a major meeting of pathologists in Washington, D.C., and the audience heckled him off the stage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Fabrica was a book for the established experts in medicine, but Vesalius also wanted to reach a wider audience. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Ginny said, then flinched, startled either by the sound of her amplified voice or by the cheers of the audience. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I remembered the remark when I was introduced to an all-white audience and heard their applause so loud. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, after that nighttime visit in London, I'm not interested in attracting a dangerous audience. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A pin on the sidewalk, one, two, three, while the other boys threw their hands up and cheered like audience members and taped the whole thing on their phones. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I observed how some speakers used emotion and dramatic language, and tried to move the audience with such techniques, while other speakers were sober and even, and shunned emotion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marguerite Johnson, I heard the name again, my honors were read, there were noises in the audience of appreciation, and I took my place on the stage as rehearsed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, riding right over his words and the gasps of the audience. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I could hear my heart pounding as I glanced up at the audience. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But the Gaffer did not convince his audience. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They heard him expertly exhorting the audience about what is needed today by “the black man here in these United States.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was settled and the playwright was about to begin her little speech summarizing the plot and evoking the excitement of performing before an adult audience tomorrow evening in the library. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The audience probably could have recited along with him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wheel turned....Next day I was to have an audience with the king. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I manage to get through another paragraph and then look up, half-expecting my audience to fly off with a rustle of wings. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the silence I felt it all unraveling, the audience waking with the dream unfinished, all my work ruined, wasted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The audience stirred uneasily and sat up straighter in their chairs. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

From this point on, the girls are soliloquizing — telling their secrets to the audience. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

What if the audience’s reaction had been due to the power of the song, rather than my playing of it? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her modest audience forgets their conversation and their dinner as they watch. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Later, though, he started to take Dickon and leave me at home, and he no longer cared whether I sat through his audiences, so long as Dickon was there. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I don't want the audience to know what I'm planning to tell her about Peeta. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The audience snickered, and Mr. Breland turned and looked at us like a teacher who just doesn’t know what to do with a dumb student. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It takes me a while to notice the roar of the audience’s cheers thundering all around the landscape. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She raises her finger high in the air, turning so that the whole audience can absorb that she is about to outdo the elephant once and for all. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The audience clapped and nodded in appreciation, impressed that Paganini was not hard of hearing, as previously believed. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I’m the audience, staring at the big screen. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The audience had now spotted me and were tittering and pointing. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

"What do we do with all those mice who have had their tails chopped off?" asked the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Demons were perched all around me on derelict equipment and abandoned train cars like the audience of a gladiatorial match. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Every time I spoke to a Muslim audience, someone would always tell me how grateful they were to see a woman of faith succeed at such a high level of sport. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Over the next forty years, giving as many as 250 speeches a year, speaking to more than one million people, he did just that, holding his audiences spellbound with his fire-and-brimstone style of preaching. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

That he knows the audience will be wondering why he hasn’t used the most persuasive argument in his arsenal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the audience listening, hanging on my words. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried not to think about what was probably happening out there: The show didn’t start for another forty-five minutes, but some of the early birds in the audience would be filtering in. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He regaled his grateful audience with talk of—what else?—food. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Such a selection is very, very rare,” the Chief Elder told the audience. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he enlists the audience’s help, he actually enlists the audience’s help. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had the magazine open to a center spread of Fabian onstage singing before an audience of mostly girls. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

First came a blessing, given by a blind chaplain to an audience made deaf by size and distance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Each and every one of us knew the feeling of having no mother clapping for us in the audience. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke said this to her only ten minutes ago, right before he and Dawn Celeste took their seats in the audience. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was nothing Miranda liked less than sitting around without an audience. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I suspected, I was a little too advanced for the neighborhood audience. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the illusionist takes her bow and disappears before her rapt audience’s eyes, they clap, applauding the empty air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

An overflow audience of more than five thousand people attended the ceremony and watched Anderson receive the prestigious medal from the hands of the first lady. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

A few dawdlers rushed to their seats as the audience quieted down. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When a stand-up puts down a heckler, he has to do so by being funnier: compelling laughter, very directly, gets the audience on his side. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he sees a growing audience around the bar, he talks louder. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A large audience formed to watch as we played, and I saw that all their eyes were on me—me in my strappy pink dress. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That was impossible, he was told, as a scene that required the full stage was being performed and there was nowhere to hide from the audience by creeping behind the scenery. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he has an audience, he puts on a silly voice, high and girlish. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The many blacks who now regularly attended city council meetings glared at him but he relished the smiles and nods directed at him by many whites in the audience. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the broadcasters knew—everyone in the audience knew—that even with twenty-six manned flights under NASA’s belt, this was different, and they struggled to come up with superlatives to capture the moment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It must have been a refrain; each time she sang it, the audience broke up laughing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns his head and scans the audience. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The principal, Jim Moore, and the district’s superintendent, Sam Lee, are in the audience on opening night, and both come up to him afterward to offer praise and congratulations. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She didn’t speak at first and instead cast a powerful gaze over the audience, taking in every face she could. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The cheers of the audience fade into a questioning hum. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Almost at once popularizers of science tried to come up with ways to make these concepts accessible to a general audience. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“They mean themselves; they mean a lot of agreeable sensations to the audience.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the act, the illusionist takes a bow with a pivoting turn, acknowledging the entire circle as the audience applauds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In February 1963,1 officiated at the University of Islam graduation exercises; when I introduced various members of the Muhammad family, I could feel the cold chill toward them from the Muslims in the audience. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Roosevelt told the audience that Rondon was hunting for monkeys so they could eat them for dinner, their jaws dropped open in shock. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At a minimum, this audience needs to consist of no more than one or two people whose opinions they value. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see her freckles from the audience, but I imagined them dancing on her nose as she flicked her head this way and that. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I look toward the back of the audience, and the ghost of Mama is nowhere to be seen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For those in the audience, Obama’s speech was an old tune sung by an exciting new performer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He said to Schmid, “It’s a pity,” while someone from the audience, angry at Fischer, yelled: “Send him back to the United States!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He also reportedly told a college audience that 45 homeless people die each second—which would mean a whopping 1.4 billion dead homeless every year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He moved several yards down the beach and began a new equation, captivating his audience with a lengthy explanation of each new and complex symbol. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The captains shouted orders to their men while the audience hooted and clapped. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When Bobby spotted Reuben Fine—perhaps America’s second strongest player—in the audience, he became especially excited, since Fine’s books had become almost chess bibles for Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were always aware that our love had an audience. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can hear the audience hushing one another, not wanting to miss anything. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But I came here to have an audience with Lord Roiben, and now I have one. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Now, as it happens, she did,” said Mrs. Cole, who seemed to be rather enjoying herself now, with the gin in her hand and an eager audience for her story. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the audience someone coughs, and the crowd is so quiet that it echoes like a gunshot. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I heard brave Red call out above the confusion and free-for-all on stage and the howling of the audience. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know the audience will enjoy our having fun at Haymitch's expense. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Without an audience, Mom and I wound down pretty fast, without any kind of resolution. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost like the audience was part of the band. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She looked around nervously and then pointed at her imaginary audience, yelling, “How can I act in front of you people? You’re all naked! This is extremely rude!” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He looked at his audience and tried to shrug it off. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she would return, in a minute, with two burly men attendants, and they would bear me, howling and hitting, past the smiling audience now gathered in the lounge. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He does not even lift an eyebrow at feats that elicit applause or gasps, or the occasional shriek of surprise, from the rest of the rapt audience. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Many seem genuinely surprised that black people in the audience applaud these messages; for them, it is apparently news that black people think men should be good fathers and help to support their families. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the audience broke into a fresh round of cheers. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With each fresh denunciation of Cory, the studio audience applauds more excitedly. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Patron looked around the audience, and several people tried to smile.They met El Patron’s steely eyes and immediately sobered up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the point at which you establish your bona fides as a speaker, grab the audience’s attention, and hope to keep it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

On the concert stage or over the airwaves, the transcendent quality of her voice touched her audiences deeply. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The other penguins began to clap, and the audience joined them. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even public failure, for then you’re guaranteed a greater audience for your eventual rising. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He was met with hoots of derision from blacks in the audience. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She goes faster and faster, her feet a blur of motion, rolling the ball around the ring as the audience claps and whistles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Now, in the audience, I encountered the museum director Kathryn Red Corn. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When I was little, my father used to insist that I at-tend him in the audience chamber whenever he held court. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And whenever they appeared, the more they interfered with the other acts on the program the better the audiences liked them. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told white audiences that we needed them and did not want them to leave the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilhite says Reggie is good with an audience because he seems like an ordinary guy, the person who could be your friend or son, your boyfriend. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The rest of the audience was watching her, waiting for Charlotte’s next line, and George didn’t disappoint. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the arena, the Demons are shouting at one another, and Tremaine is stalking away from Jena without so much as looking up at the audience. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All crimes had been forgiven in order to pad the audience for the big game against Salem, which had to have already started. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was evident that the majority of the audience knew little about Christianity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Millard set the falcon down and held the sheet in front, screening the bird from the audience. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I stare at it, entranced by the sound of the audience’s reactions. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Is he addressing the audience or is he so drunk he might actually be taunting the Capitol? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My letter to God was extra long and extra angry the night I first saw pictures of those audiences. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I was the only member of the studio audience dancing a jig. Singleton beat that little fugger like she'd stole something.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The audience gasped in unison, then groaned when I told them how Violet Chavez had let me go back for the weekend. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Billie Holiday came on at the end of the program to a wildly enthusiastic audience. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

After a moment, the audience stirs enough to clap. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of graduation I was nervous and tense; I rose and faced the audience and my speech rolled out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want you to know that at ten-thirty tonight, when we’re done, their jaws are going to be dropping in the audience. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"We have an audience who pays to see us; we don't need you lot standing about gawking." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps a narrator, then? The narrators have a really important role. They keep the audience informed.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The audience will be expecting the pair of lovebirds who won the Hunger Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a night of great celebration for my people. It would be unfortunate if anything were to befall you on the night before your audience with my queen.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

People in the audience glance toward it, puzzled, but I know what it must have been. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the film Woodstock came out the following March, it screened to sold-out audiences everywhere. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The audience’s cheers turn into whispers of shock. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like all the other nursing ladies in Cold Sassy, Aunt Loma would turn sideways to her audience or else cover herself with the baby, and also drape a clean diaper over herself. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Olakunde narrates always with looks of the greatest solemnity, but raveled deep in his demeanor is his joy in telling these tales, and to an audience so delighted with his testimony. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He is now inside the darkened theater, standing directly behind the seats of the second-level audience. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The boy must rehearse his thoughts and raise his hand before speaking out in a loud voice to an audience of classmates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone in the audience let out a loud Maríachi cry, and Joe replied with his own. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

To prove my point, I had taken Liu’s essay and rewritten it for an African audience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing is for sure: Schoenberg and his fellow-travellers in the redesigning of the Western note system were not courting a mainstream audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While speeches were made in English, Russian, and Icelandic, the audience fidgeted, craning their necks to the side entrance, half expecting—hoping—that at any moment Fischer would make a grand entrance. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But as soon as he bowed and the audience clapped, Farid went around with a little silver dish, which was the only thing that didn't quite seem to belong in these surroundings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They all knew how to weave a story onstage that transfixed an audience. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But very little time was spent on theology, for one did not need to prove to a Harlem audience that all white men were devils. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Then Mamita, who was in the audience, comes up to me and says, Forgive me, daughter. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began by goading his audience of Korean immigrants and their American-raised adult children, asserting that Kim Jong II was worse than Hitler. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the Queen’s audience chamber, Eilis knelt down and asked for the return of the princess. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby of the Jedda Palace Hotel offered me frequent sizable informal audiences of important men from many different countries who were curious to hear the “American Muslim.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis and I sate awkwardly in silence, the pretense of tuition abandoned; knowing that the coming lesson would be but a simulation of learning; and being unwilling to begin this pretense without an audience. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But what if someone from the campus wandered into the audience? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You can’t know what it is like for us,’ a black woman shouted at me one day from an audience somewhere. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether or not she had considered that the audience would boo her off the stage. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upstart popular musicians, invited to bow at the altar of High Art, were at first dismissed by critics despite having delighted the audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I was on the team; we traveled to neighboring towns such as Howell and Charlotte, and wherever I showed my face, the audiences in the gymnasiums “niggered” and “cooned” me to death. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Cleopatra sailed on the Cydnus, Mark Antony’s audience deserted him. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The gruff tones of Hugo’s voice, with an occasional shout when his feelings overcame him, were very impressive, and the audience applauded the moment he paused for breath. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galton’s talk might not have generated the effusive endorsement that he had expected—he later groused that his audience was “living forty years ago”—but he had obviously touched a raw nerve. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Benji saluted his audience and then jumped down from the stage. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other audience members sat calmly, as if in church, while my father snapped his fingers and bobbed his head low against his chest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Hey, it’s Red!” someone in the audience shouted, and everybody giggled. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But between the chanting, the harp chords, and the train rumble, the magician was losing his audience. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I sang as Sir Savien, and I felt the audience begin to love and fear me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He beckoned to the audience, but no one responded. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The point is that the peroration shapes the impression— intellectually, yes, but above all in terms of emotion or tone— with which the audience comes away from your speech. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to give away the ending, but it’s the kind of ending that makes people in the audience teary. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

This is the opportunity to end on a twenty-one-gun salute, to move the audience to tears of pity or howls of rage, to wheel out your grandest figures and highest-sounding words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Microphones did not yet exist, so only a small portion of the audience actually heard any speeches. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He turns sideways to the audience in horror, hand on his stomach. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I begin to recognize the faces in the audience. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

That there was a thriving theatre audience of Londoners of lower rank is in itself a significant fact. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In this sense, these media have been good for audiences and bad for performers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the night Laurence Hurd rose up to attack the whites in the audience for their hypocrisy, for using religion as a thin veil for their own racism. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to miss his chance to find his forever family, who might just be waiting for him out in the audience. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A man is standing at a lectern in front of a huge audience. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But what she doesn’t consider is that if by some miracle I was standing in front of the judges and live studio audience, I wouldn’t be able to croak out a word. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And then we discovered the best ‘ ‘fishing’ ’ audience of all, by far the best- conditioned audience for Mr. Muhammad’s teachings: the Christian churches. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, all of Washington’s conservative message was immensely popular with whites, and not by coincidence, for his every public utterance was carefully crafted to appeal to two audiences. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The encounter brought the audience to its feet in a thunder of applause and cheers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He grins cheekily, crosses his arms against his chest, and calls out a challenge to the other team at the opposite end of the game world, which makes the audience go wild. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now audiences, even in rural areas, are no longer as satisfied with local entertainers and demand world-class talent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people in the audience giggled or gasped at that, but Kaisha pushed on once more. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And when the curtain came down and I could be free, I didn’t wait for the audience’s breath to fill my sails after all. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

That night, the tightrope lady fell off the wire in the same way, and the audience gasped in the same way and applauded with the same enthusiasm when she climbed back up the tall ladder. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the audience roars with a cacophony of confusion, cheers, boos, and incredulous shouts, the power-up finally wears off on me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the end of the conference the participants were granted an audience with the Pope. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, we knew how to make boards well enough. It wasn't until your time that we learned how to make an audience bored." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

No, for he spoke to himself, not to an imagined audience. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

With another touch of his mother’s hand, Robin left the company and went to find Brother Luke and to make himself ready for the audience. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The audience cheers, each person for his or her own reasons. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orange leaves were the extent of my lesson plan, but still I searched the empty briefcase, mindful that I had stupidly armed my audience with straight pins. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A studio, with a small audience sitting across from us as we enter. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every man is free,” the frontiersman Robert Rogers told a disbelieving British audience, referring to Indian villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ride back to the Red Keep was uneventful, but at the Tower of the Hand he found a dozen angry trader captains waiting in his audience chamber to protest the seizure of their ships. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Standing up and speaking before an audience was a thing that throughout my previous life never would have crossed my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He peeked out at the audience from behind the big velvet curtain. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Like wind on growing corn, a rippling murmur came from all the little girls in the audience. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was funny. I could not believe the army would show it. The entire audience was in the middle of the war taking casualties every day.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Octavian? Your presence is cordially requested in the audience room! We have your violin!” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment there is silence, and as I look into the audience, I see teary eyes and hear noses sniffling. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Students in the audience lean forward, absorbed, maybe asking themselves if they would have taken such risks, and wondering how they would have held up under such pressure. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The philosophers in the audience were scandalized by this claim; Galileo was naturally thrilled to have been vindicated and feted. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When he spies a woman unfolding a lounge chair nearby and starts talking louder, I realize it’s for an audience. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

All pageant queens have to take their first walk and wave to the audience. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This time there was a loud gasp from the audience, including me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian glanced at the audience as if to say: This wasn’t my idea, folks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And now I realized how many people were in the audience, the whole world it seemed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts would compel utterance; and there, with no audience but the Almighty, I would pour out my soul’s complaint, in my rude way, with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships:— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge had already done that twice, in front of the whole audience. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Father, though, would not join Mother in the audience right away. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The audience screams in delight as each of them remains standing only on islands of rock floating in the lava. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the phrase “Allahu Akbar”—“God is most great”—all Muslims in the audience placed their opened hands at the sides of their faces. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just leave it alone and pretend it's our only audience member. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When we performed with the American kids, audiences were wowed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When you lose, the audience casts bets for you to go onto the assassination lottery. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a stark silence as Liberty, in her full punk glory, glares down at the audience. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marian attracted her biggest audiences at black schools and churches in the South. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Only preferred or special audiences receive such treatment. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After an opening act, the lights dimmed and fog rolled across the audience. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Birge delivered the news to the audience in Wheeler Hall, accurately describing carbon-14 as “certainly much the most important radioactive substance that has yet been created.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But I doubt that I have ever uttered this absolute truth before an audience without being hotly challenged, and accused by a Jew of anti-Semitism. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m so glad y’all could join me for a brand-new season of Queen of Neat,” she said to an eruption of clapping and hollering from the live audience. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And now the whole audience began to laugh. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I stood in front of these large audiences, I wanted to be modest in my clothing options, but did not want to sacrifice my sense of fashion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The audience members rise to their feet and cheer, making a noise that Withers can only describe as “breathtaking.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They ran it through their own market research protocol, called the Program Analyzer, which required audiences to push red and green buttons, recording their impressions of the shows they were watching. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When I toggle my view to show the audience in the Tokyo Dome, they are shrieking his name and waving glowing batons frantically. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, as the audience broke into applause, his angry expression turned to one of joy, and he walked back onstage. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad would come quickly to the stand, looking out over the vacuum-quiet audience, his gentle-looking face set, for just a fleeting moment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton addressed the crowd on the issue of women’s rights, arguing that the topic was relevant at a temperance meeting because many people in the audience still questioned whether women should be permitted to speak. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Hand's private audience chamber was not so large as the kinjg's, nor a patch on the vastness of the throne room, but Tyrion liked its Myrish rugs, wall hangings, and sense of intimacy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He frequently extolled the all-encompassing virtues of Ancient Greek theatre, which drew its audience 'from the government and judicial buildings, from the country, from ships, from military barracks and from the furthest regions’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From the end of the seventeenth century, through sermons and lectures, through popular textbooks and dramatic dialogues, the new science was disseminated to a wider audience than ever before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The audience seemed to have become one, its breathing and articulation synchronized. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have an audience even before there’s an audience. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

What are they doing in this rinky-dink blue-collar resort, and what does the audience make of this surprise visit from the dark-skinned South? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the roar of a fully engaged audience, and the crowd in Brazil was one of the best. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He puts his hand on the blue fabric shape and turns to face the audience. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clapping stopped and the lights went up and the audience started getting up to leave. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The audience with El Jefe was set in the National Palace for the next day. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve never experienced anything like it, but I knew that the entire point of playing music was to hope that once in a while you could bring this feeling to an audience of people. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t focused on what the audience was looking at. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The doves that appear onstage and occasionally in the audience during Prospero’s performances are kept in elaborate cages, delivered to each theater along with the rest of his luggage and supplies. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And even where something appears merely decorative—a run of alliteration or a mellifluously turned sentence—it serves to commend the speech more easily to memory, and to give pleasure to the audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She looked over at the play, still in progress, and the audience beyond. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some in the audience gasped with fright and delight—they still thought it was part of the play. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But,” I told the audience, “the girls of Swat were and are not afraid of anyone.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All around us come the screams and cheers from our invisible audience. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Already in there you can see the consciousness of how damaging he regards the appearance of bad faith, and how penetrat- ingly the orator is exposed to his audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Belet picked up a battle-ax while our audience, the cats, found suitable spots to watch the action. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bridge heard him say quietly, “Shoulders. Smile. Sing to the audience.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The audience applauded like mad, and some guy behind me kept saying to his wife, "You know what that is? That's precision." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, I stood in a massive rectangular room—an audience chamber, from the looks of it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She would be overwhelmed when she realized that there was a kindred spirit in the audience. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience of witches was listening intently, sensing that something dramatic was about to happen. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Ovid is as always thinking of his audience. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door reappears in the side of the tent and the small audience makes their way out. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The next day two of them came together to audience,- the Greatjon's uncles, blustery men in the winter of their days with beards as white as the bearskin cloaks they wore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The voice of the studio announcer informs the audience that the network has lost the connection to Grovers Mill. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Like the minstrel shows of the slavery and Jim Crow eras, today’s displays are generally designed for white audiences. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It worked well, and gave me much more contact with my audience. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of men, comprised of players and audience alike, formed between the playhouse and the nearest drainage ditch. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it had, and as the last notes of the music faded into silence I felt the audience begin to stir. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Normally she shut out the audience as she disappeared into the songs, but it was different tonight. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He watched with the assurance of a parent who is in the audience watching his daughter perform. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"One more time? For the audience?" he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

How was classical music going to respond to this new, potentially fatal relationship between mass audiences and new genres that were irresistible to them? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The audience was mostly town people because the farmers had all gone home to do their chores. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

What could be more appropriate and compelling for high school actors and audiences? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now the crowd grew restless, as an audience does when the clock goes past curtain time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time Kyla and Larisa were giggling nervously, and I can only imagine what the audience must have thought at the sight of me running in circles behind the podium. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The audience cheers, and there are a few people screaming at the top of their lungs, “Go, Vanessa!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The audience gawked at the “defectives” with repulsion—and at the superhuman athletes with envy and ambition. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And the audience moved out of the amphitheater. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A badly judged joke sends your connection with the audience down in flames. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Lord Eddard, pardons," Desmond called out, opening the door a crack, "but there's a black brother here begging audience. He says the matter is urgent. I thought you would want to know." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Stanton had been away from the podium at women’s rights conventions for six years, but most people in the audience still knew her by name. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Others in the audience were knowledgeable music lovers and important Berlin critics. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Proud of a man and his wife, proud of a cause and a heartbeat that was a metronome for us long before the crossover audience considered them worthy of praise. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stone-faced, he told the knight that they required audience with the queen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Squaring her shoulders as she’d been taught to do on those afternoons in the portable building where the debate team practiced, she faced her audience. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, almost no one in the audience had the faintest idea what he was talking about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Go on,” said a few people in the audience. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

All of the other boys looked up the valley, and so did our audience. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was in a different and smaller arena, an arena for whom the only audience was ourselves and our oppressors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we entered the auditorium, I spotted Roberto in the audience. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The bald heads in the audience all nodded vigorously. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to impress our audience, and the older girls who danced. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It’s no great surprise, therefore, that wherever Satan has appeared, audiences and critics have found it all too easy to take his side. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"That will bring them in, the greedy little brutes!" cried the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He glared at the audience, and they began—first hesitantly and then loudly—to applaud. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Him just hanging up there holding some arms, blood showering the screaming audience. It was all over the news. Didn’t you see it?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The moment became even more surreal as I scanned the rest of the audience and noticed a beaming Uma Thurman on the sidelines. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Not at all; nor did she or anyone in the audience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“That could change,” I said, shaking my finger as if at an audience. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was thunderous laughter and applause from the majority of the audience, who called for an encore. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pictured Selena in the audience, her jaw on the floor. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They farmed and built a house and brought a series of older and older children from the audience into the imaginary home, and then more babies for grandchildren. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is a giant umbrella concept meaning no more nor less than the fitting of a speech to the temper and expectations of its audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Except for Boggs, they don’t bother with the soldiers from 13, either because they have no idea who they are or because they know they won’t mean anything to the audience. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The third concept from Merriam’s model concerns our behavior as performers, audience members, listeners, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The audience, which had been yelling and stomping impatiently, suddenly stopped and applauded, glad that at last something was happening. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

With 2,300 journalists around the world, in 197 bureaus, serving a market including investment bankers, derivatives traders, stockbrokers, newspapers, radio, television, and Internet outlets, Reuters has always had a very complex audience to satisfy. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I also did not know who my audience would be. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And when they blew again upon their golden horns the strange music came forth and passed slowly over the audience, which now talked aloud and stood up. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's easy to believe that our audiences spend the day saying nothing, actually saving their voices for the moment the picture begins. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A bearded man of thirty years or so was brought onto the stage by Stanchion and introduced to the audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He waved and blew kisses to the audience as the curtain came down again, and then his face once again filled with anger. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ellen had the most popular television show in the country and a massive global audience. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Although my father could neither read nor write, he was reputed to be an excellent orator who captivated his audiences by entertaining them as well as teaching them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Welch audience stayed attentive but quiet as Senator Kennedy promised to create a food-stamp program. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Given the relatively low salaries of many mathematicians, both failings might be overcome if multimillionaires supported mathematicians who wrote for a popular audience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have lied, and I bet for a while he loved the opportunity to have an audience for those stories he was so good at making up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Above the stove was a mirror, angled so that people sitting in the audience could view the top of the range. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like an actor whose audience has stood up to clap, I didn’t want to quit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One by one, they are summoned inside for an audience with Uncle Al. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There were hisses here and there among the audience. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"Would that it could be, Bran. Do you have any questions before we begin this audience?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The little girls in the audience smiled up at her and some of the boys who were approaching adolescence whistled shrilly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shut the door and take a look at our audience of students. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you look at the audience? Did you speak up? And smile?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

That’s something Dana didn’t have to worry about on her big day: a vlogger in the audience waiting for her to make a mistake so he can blab about it to millions of followers. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I found that most downtown audiences seemed to expect some unnamed something whenever I appeared. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to the audience and waved a little, like a movie star. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asks if he may borrow some money from the audience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The volunteer walks us to the stage so we can see the same view the musicians will have tonight as they look out at the audience. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I'd been working on something in private and now began to imagine bringing it to a live audience. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I am writing this as a newly minted director who’s shown her work to an audience of...I don’t know, a thousand people? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He chuckles a little at his own joke, but when no one in the audience joins him he clears his throat and continues. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, though, the producers concluded that there just weren’t enough people interested in chess to maintain a large enough viewing audience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Aimee looks for me in the audience, and when she finally sees me, she waves wildly. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Let’s take a look at our audience for tonight’s opening game!” the analyst continues. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In other words, he wants to convince his audience that they’re in this together, and that losing the war with God was just a setback. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But when the train came speeding toward the screen, the audience screamed and fainted because they thought they were in danger of being run over. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I feel we may be getting an unintended audience.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"The doors are chained and bolted, Your Grandness," answered a voice in the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

No audience was. permitted and no broadcast made, but Obsle later had me in and played me his own tape of the session. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A unified gasp ripples through the audience, too, as if everyone had felt it at the exact same time. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly there came a great gasp from the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

With the right music on the radio, I could just see myself singing in front of a huge audience. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, the creative process is not completed until the work has found an audience. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience moved under the music like grass against the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The principle pleasure of these audiences, says Dr. Trefusis, lies in referring to royalty without either revealing or denying the closeness of his connection, viz. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The world trembles from the roar of the invisible audience, and the clouds in the sky start to move rapidly. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was his audience when he ran lines for auditions. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But you could tell he was aware of the audience. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

What Monteverdi’s Venetian audience understood was that this was a satire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The audience claps, but not loud enough to cover up my grandfather hollering, “That’s right, girl! You make them straight As, Nessy!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I managed to get through speaking for two whole minutes in front of an audience, which I think is the longest ever. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Despite our audience, this moment feels starkly personal. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As the audience digests your first few words, and you relax into it, you realize that the rest of the speech is at your command. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Watson sat in the audience—“skinny and awkward...pop-eyed, and wrote down nothing.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the middle of our choreography, we split into two groups to make a path for our emcee to walk down and grace the audience with her beauty. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tending to the dead was an act of ultimate kindness, and such things were meant to be performed in silence, for an audience who would never acknowledge it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A few people in the audience clap for them, and Mama starts to blush. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He, remembered Rhaegar's infant son, the red ruin of his skull, and the way the king had turned away, as he had turned away in Darry's audience hall not so long ago. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When Humphrey was asked what was to become of the unemployed miners, he said they would be retrained, which got a big round of applause from his audience. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

What would make an entire audience rise to their feet and chant his name? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In another room, behind all the cameras and the action, are the benches where the audience sits. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

This convention differed from previous women’s rights conventions in that men could not address the audience. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

One honor that came to me, I had prayed for: His Eminence, Prince Faisal, invited me to a personal audience with him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an improv exercise where two actors are acting in a scene and someone from the audience calls out, “Freeze!” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize we had an audience, and now I feel my face get hot. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I once attended a lecture on biology addressed to a large general audience at a conference on technology, entertainment, and design. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sound recordings were made of Mr. Muhammad and some ministers, including me, teaching black audiences the truths about the brainwashed black man and the devil white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Wilmuth, would you please tell the radio audience as much as you remember?” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee had put two cases of pop and a gallon jug of water in the trunk to offer our audience. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Someone in the audience yelled, “A sloth in a dress doing ballet!” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As she mentions each person who has wronged her, the audience sees a scene revealing a slice of their lives. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The Grand High Witch glared at the witches in the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Scarcely anyone was looking at Meggie; almost all the members of her audience had turned their backs to her and were pointing at the smoke and whispering to one another. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But in his speeches, he tried to convince audiences that giving African Americans the rights of citizenship would undermine white society and safety. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

You just need to fool the audience into thinking it’s real. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked like an eagle staring down from a high mountain crag as his eyes swept over his audience of awed young Navajo men. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no rules in the arena, but cannibalism doesn't play well with the Capitol audience, so they tried to head it off. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Used to book him whenever I could get my hands on him, years ago now. Absolutely brilliant, completely mesmerized every audience. Never seen anyone to match him, never.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the lodge, I gave a little concert one night, in the main room, with my relatives and the dead game animals mounted on the wall as my audience. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So anyway, tonight the audience was hysterical, like a war was about to break out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There were a few sounds from the audience, but they seemed to be holding themselves in against tremendous pressure. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oratory, in this case, is more effective on an ignorant audience than a well- informed one, is it not? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

As the curtains parted that evening, the audience murmured in surprise. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But researchers are apt to lose sight of whom they are writing for, and narcissistically describe the obsessions of their guild rather than what the audience really wants to know. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone was speaking in hushed voices, racing back and forth from the dressing room, even though the audience hadn’t even begun to gather yet. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He said the practiced words as though he were addressing millions instead of an audience of two. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Remember, this is a chance for the judges and the audience to get to know YOU. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

For now I realized that I meant everything that I had said to the audience, even though I hadn't known that I was going to say those things. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not run down your power pack. When you’re on the chariot this time, no waving, no smiling. I just want you to look straight ahead, as if the entire audience is beneath your notice.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The courtroom audience laughed, and Judge Swango pounded his gavel again. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The following preview has been approved for all audiences by the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. All Charlie Tanner wanted was to live happily ever after. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Impatient with his generalities, I said, “You imply that this isn’t the right moment. Would you advise me to cancel my audience?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after, a commentator informed the audience that he had just been handed a telegram. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The crowd gasped, but Kaisha’s head jerked upward, and she dealt the audience a fierce glare. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He held his Staff as he stood at the foot of the stage, and the audience applauded him in acknowledgement of his remarkable performance in the morning. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln stood in the box and bowed to the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience whose approval looms so large in artists’ minds is a limited and special one. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Excluding certain textbook authors, only a handful of mathematics writers have a lay audience of more than a thousand. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Successful persuasion depends on an audience’s being able to identify with the speaker—and we are much more often like the devil than we are like the Almighty. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In Lima a few days later, Jaime Bayona heard a rumor that someone in the audience had called the director of Peru’s TB program and told him, “Paul Farmer says you’re killing patients.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I was more tuned in to the audience than to the speaker, and if for the last five minutes of her talk anyone was breathing, I could not detect it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Inside, the audience surges toward the stage, chanting all the while that Booth must be caught and killed immediately. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers and radio had been competing for audience and advertisers ever since radio's popularity began growing. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A tremor rippled through the audience and Beatrice edged closer, half- expecting somebody to come after him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, almost no one in the audience of over four hundred microbiologists seemed interested as I read long sections of Hershey’s letter. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Saying the usual things about how excited and happy she was to see all the parents in the audience and how she loved seeing this kind of support and blah-blah-blah. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

On a cool late-summer evening in an oceanside suburb of Los Angeles, Shin stood in front of a small audience of Korean American teenagers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Toward the middle of the audience is a group of well-dressed ladies, their pale skin glistening in the heat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The purpose of the exordium is to put the audience into a receptive and attentive frame of mind. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

However much President Snow may hate me, this Capitol audience is mine. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Us boys thought it was a bit funny but the girls screamed with laughter like the TV audience on Happy Days. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

An adoring audience surrounds my carriage, eager to see what I look like, and what I can do. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I walked out onto the stage, stepping into the blinding lights wearing high heels and a white suit, to give Barack a congratulatory hug before turning to wave with him at the whipped-up audience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And when his audience grew bored, he would spring into the air and do a back flip with a half twist. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her gown sparkled in the lights, and the audience rose to applaud Marsha as she wept for the women she'd left behind. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sage joins the students on the stage to take questions from the audience. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Besides the other kids, I knew we’d have a living, published poet in the audience, so I’d spent a week memorizing and rehearsing my poem in front of a mirror, if you can believe that. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny Carson didn’t believe it, noted that there were about 120 people in the studio audience, and asked how many of them shared his birthday of, say, March 19. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then Gale could shoot him from the audience.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She sways as though she might faint, and several attentive audience members move to assist her but she does not fall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“What is the matter?” cries a voice from the audience. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing like a good audience to encourage a performer. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black audiences and white audiences feel distinguishably different. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And unlike Dad’s shows, where enthusiastic fans jumped the stage and then dive- bombed into the crowd, there was always a wall between the audience and me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, after a moment of amazed delight, his entire audience burst into howls of laughter. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The music got real soft, and the backup singers were silent, and even the audience was hushed. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The audience will be sated seeing me injured and treed and the pack below me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The audience was mixed, their claims broader than race. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nemur screeched as the audience, divided in its aims, became a tangle of arms and legs. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Always take any chance you get to perform in front of an audience,” Ms. Holly told our class. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"Let the bruise show. The audience will think you've mixed it up with another tribute before you've even made it to the arena." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The theme was a sure-fire guarantee of audience interest and the rest was up to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That something is to win the audience round. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

For many in the audience, this was the first high school graduation they had ever attended. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He bows deeply, three times, aiming at different segments of the audience. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Klaus heard applause from the audience as Act Three of The Marvelous Marriage began. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

"I have one question, Your Grandness," said a voice in the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The success of the Torricellian barometer created an audience for the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her eyes blink, she smiles nervously, peering to left and right, checking out the audience, and lifts a hand to fidget with her headdress. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, an announcer grimly told the audience that the militia had been overwhelmed in battle. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She read a list of our accomplishments so that the audience could understand what we were all about. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ras was attacking the Brotherhood now and others were answering him from the audience, and I went on, moving back toward Lenox, moving past a movie house when they grabbed me and started punching. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw his hand go up in a salute, and the audience thundered. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Actually, you know, I'm as much affected by the audience as it is by me. Its response helps me do my best." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was what everyone saw—like an audience at the theater, blithely unaware that backstage the actors were playing out a darker drama. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You remember who is sitting in the audience? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The applause sign flashed, Arletta laughed, the audience clapped, and she moved on. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

To him, the speech had worked brilliantly—but on the wrong audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Before one of the biggest archaeological audiences in history, Hrdlicka chose to discuss the skeletal evidence for Indians’ early arrival in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I heard the audience is supposed to be a mix of art and theater students attending summer camps,” Louis, a quiet, blond boy said. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Hannah was almost annoyed at having her audience distracted. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still talking about the baby on Monday, and when Mia arrived in the kitchen that afternoon, Lexie was delighted to have a fresh audience. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The space where the audience had entered now appears to be solid wall, seamlessly blending with the rest of the tent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Country Joe was shocked by the size of the audience; several hundred thousand people covered the hills as far as he could see, and thousands more were still pouring in. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For the last four years, he had been performing at concerts, antiwar rallies, and marches, but this would be the group’s largest audience ever. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

During the late 1920s and 1930s black and white patrons integrated the audiences of numerous lectures, meetings, and concerts in government auditoriums and in private concert halls. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"But, Katniss, what a ride for you. I think the real excitement for the audience was watching you fall for him. When did you realize you were in love with him?" asks Caesar. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I've seen more elaborate pyrotechnics at the grand openings of grocery stores, but the audience was kind and everyone made an effort to pretend that the display was magnificent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Remember, this is a chance for the judges and the audience to get to know YOU. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The audience, anesthetized by highballs, made no response. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the war, life returned to normal, and Shackleton began a world tour, speaking to audiences in big cities and outback villages about Endurance’s doomed voyage. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In the gallery, friends and family members sit and watch, the bewildered audience to a play performed in an unknown dialect of acronyms, Latin, and Old English. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But pretending to be a writer wasn’t much fun without an audience, so pretty soon she brought her pencil and paper down to the breakfast table. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The audience was as much for the press as for us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now maybe the size of the audience would finally match the scope of what he believed to be possible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She even transforms one audience member’s pocket watch from metal to sand and back again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The audience was focused on her every move. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I slipped my bare feet into a new pair of tennis shoes Dad had given me the week before, and I followed Cade Hernandez out of my room to face my audience. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had actually done stand-up comedy in clubs, Officer Speros told us, and for the first day we were less his class than his audience. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred thirty-five million people, an audience of unprecedented size, tuned in to watch the spectacle as it unfolded on live television. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They do not understand, consequendy, what so pleases the television audience listening to a movie star discuss his divorce with bogus private language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience booed and cheered as Bruiser Bulk climbed into the ring. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laleh said, switching back to Farsi now that she had a receptive audience. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tonesha looks around at everyone in the cafeteria, as if making sure that her audience is in place. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The warders were our audience, and they enjoyed our singing as much as we did. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I'm just not certain. I mean, do you really think I'm ready to play so important a role? Before so important an audience?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He told the story through characters directly expressing themselves and their feelings to the audience, always and only singing, something that had never been tried before. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Welles and Houseman hoped they could take advantage of this to hook their audience. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We would not be set apart from our distinguished audience at all; instead, we would be playing practically in their royal laps. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He rushed to the press box to administer some image control but met a hostile audience. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Welles had manipulated the audience’s perception of time by dragging out the carprogram’s beginning and then accelerating once the newsflashes started. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After she hits her last high note and holds it for forever, the audience gives her a standing ovation. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

This time as I sang it I looked out into the audience, hoping at the end I would hear a voice answering my own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The instant the Ford’s audience explodes into laughter, Booth will kill Lincoln. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He'd sought an audience within an hour of his arrival, only to be told that the king was occupied. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We were just going to be in the audience, but the prospect still excited me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I shut out all those worries—like what would happen if we tested Dragonwings and it did not fly, or how to drum up an audience if Dragonwings did test out. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped forward on the vast stage at the top of the world and bowed to her immense audience. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three or four hurled themselves at the barrier, twice the height of a man, which separated the arena from the audience, and tried to clamber up it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She waits for some nods from her audience. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He’d spent time in jail and been accused of murder, yet he was such a brilliant actor that every time he appeared on stage, the audiences would go wild. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine standing up and speaking in English to an audience of adults. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the audience is swaying along too, heads moving left and right, feet tapping with the beat. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

If he had possessed the steel nerves not to become rattled in public before, now he was: “I’ve reached the end of my rope!” he shouted to the audience of five hundred. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time the men in the audience were ready. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He arrived with no crowd of guards or staff, and no announcement to the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several Panthers were in the audience, Stick among them. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And when I gave a concert or recital, it was alone, on a stage, my cello, myself, and an audience. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Dona Amelia has to hold up her hands to make the audience settle down. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could sit here and eat and nerd out with you two, but I need to work on my blog tonight. My audience awaits a back-to-school post.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He pointed a crooked finger at several people in the audience, induding me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Fender bowed—a music bow, not a karate bow—and beamed at the audience. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pole holders walk onstage first, carrying the long bamboo reeds, their silhouettes on the screen the only thing visible to the audience. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

At the same time, artists often play an important role as the articulators of our shared beliefs and values, which they express through an ongoing tradition to us, their audience. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And oh yes—after the recital she hoped that members of the audience would help themselves to refreshments at the back of the auditorium. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We here at the Mumbai Young Filmmakers Council are all in agreement that Miss Mehra possesses the unique ability to truly transform her characters on-screen in such a way as to spellbind her audience. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Good entertainers try to make each performance seem special, but you need to remember that the show they’re putting on for you is the same one they’ve put on for hundreds of other audiences. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as he had finished his unassuming report, however, everyone in the audience knew that a bombshell had exploded in the world of Joshua Lederberg. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He had never had an audience before and he felt the courtroom hanging on his words, believing him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pistol shot did startle some people in the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first narrator described the Arables’ farm and told the audience about the baby pig who was moments from execution. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

With her soft white curls and graceful good manners, Stanton appeared harmless, but when she was at the podium she challenged her audiences with revolutionary ideas about divorce, religion, and women’s role in society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you want to leave an audience thoughtful, rather than excitable. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Storytellers are always different. They prefer their stories be left alone. But they also prefer an attentive audience. I usually listen and record later. I have a nearly perfect memory.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dr. Rohmer paled to the point of translucence, and the audience gasped. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the lights went on, and Mrs. Reynolds stormed on stage to scold the audience, Mrs. Olinski was able to wheel herself around to examine her students. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She accepted on condition that the audience be completely unsegregated, and after some hesitation the DAR agreed. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Accustomed to seeing stiff, mortified contestants, the audience responded with uncertain titters. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Only one member of his audience seemed immune to the magic of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Following the tradition established by Roland Hayes and other African American concert vocalists, she concluded each of her programs with a group of spirituals that often moved her audiences to tears. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger had placed a garden bench on the edge of the lawn for his audience. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

First, in a high drama for the Muslims, Elijah Muhammad’s son, Wallace Delaney Muhammad, who once had sided with Malcolm X, faced the audience and begged forgiveness for his defection. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good-bye, Wilbur,” she said as her last words floated into the audience and out of reach. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

There is relative calm in the audience, and people start to talk to each other as we are escorted, row by row, toward the gym. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Don’t feel bad, friends.We couldn’t have said no to what they asked us to do,” Bruce said, slowly raising his eyes to gaze at his captive audience again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A murmur passed through the audience and Kira felt her face flush in embarrassment. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The witches in the audience grinned, appreciating this joke. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It’s true that every writer must calibrate the degree of specialization in her language against her best guess of the audience’s familiarity with the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In a time in America when it was of arch importance for a militant black voice to reach mass audiences, Life magazine wanted to do a personal story of me, and I refused. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For audiences reared on the regular, predictable patterns of Haydn and Mozart, the Eroica’s many noisy surprises would have been both titillating and bewildering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The puzzled audience looked at Paganini, unsure why they were doing so. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The Grand High Witch paused and glared at the mass of eager faces in the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

You need your audience to believe that you are, in the well-known words, “A pretty straight kind of guy.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

With her final sentence—“We are here to argue that racial disparities in the US criminal justice system are largely due to racial profiling”—a murmur trickles through the audience. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it would be torture to sit there in the audience, but somehow it never was. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“About a film you could make for a big audience, I mean,” Sahil continued hastily when he saw our blank faces. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I just close my eyes and shake my head, because if I open my mouth, I know what will happen, and I’m so tired of having an audience. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was a very practical application of acting with a very difficult audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could hear the wooden planks of the stage creaking overhead, the distant, muffled voices of the actors, and laughter from the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you’d like to see what an audience thought of your work!” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His body is so naturally kinetic that even when he is silent and nearly still he can make an audience laugh with just a slight gesture or facial expression. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had a rapt audience as she pressed her ear to Grace’s hot pink T-shirt, listening for a heartbeat that wasn’t there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He designed each story to hook the audience within minutes so that people didn’t turn the dial to another program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

During the brief break, on instructions from CBS officials, Orson Welles was told to step out of character and explain to the audience that the program was a play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It is the kind of material that grips high school actors and audiences but terrifies school administrations. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The volunteers and the ordinary audience fires attract looked around at the lighted faces, trying to see Mr. and Mrs. Ames and their daughter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We found to our surprise that our preschool audience didn’t like it when the adult cast got into a contentious discussion,” he remembers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hoping to hear laughter from the Freedom Writers in the audience because usually they’re the only people who laugh at my antics. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The audience responded with applause, impatient shoutings, catcalls. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience got quiet again, and Bridge waited to be screamed at by Mr. Partridge. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Grandmasters were often guests on the show, evaluating the audience’s suggestions and discussing the win-loss possibilities of the contestants. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A woman, Ilene Chen, head of the Carnegie Mellon Gender Studies program, stands at a microphone and speaks to the audience. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“And the task of casting such a work calls for a specific image in an audience’s mind.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

After the first one, which they had interrupted every third sentence with questions, they were an attentive audience, and silent except for their frequent loud sighs and Esther’s nervous laughter at all the wrong moments. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Undeniably, though, one major draw for black audiences was simply seeing fellow African Americans on stage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The audience in the Capitol will be getting bored, claiming that these Games are verging on dullness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was very satisfactory to her to have an audience for this. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Booth scrambled to center stage, turned to the audience, and stood up straight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few temple meetings were held, for instance, without the minister looking down upon some freshly shaved bald domes of new Muslim brothers in the audience. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gazing at the crowded audience, Kira remembered the many past years when she had come dutifully with her mother to the Gathering. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience atmosphere was almost as if the people had gone limp. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, a band of penguins, like an audience of formally dressed opera-goers, observed the proceedings. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The audience was not particularly enthusiastic about either study. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Some brilliant satire on the decadent Old South being cast before the unaware swine in the Night of Joy audience. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry dipped his head in a bow, and then again when the audience continued clapping. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Miss Brown walked to the edge of the stage and curtsied to the audience. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone—the players, the announcers, the millions in the audience—can see me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Singer-songwriters would gather for festivals and sing their homespun songs for the benefit of a panel of judges and a live audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I have also enjoyed going around the country and globe speaking to people about these stories—and then hearing back from all kinds of audiences about the Weses they’ve known, or even been themselves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

From behind her door, I could hear the Johnny Carson theme song and the audience’s laughter, as if they were at a party, having a grand time. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The audience is a good cross-section of Six North—Humble, Bobby, and Johnny; the Professor; Ebony; the new guy Human Being; Becca; and Dad. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But sitting in the audience as Dr. King spoke that day, I acknowledged a truth that I had known for some time but had carefully avoided: it wasn’t about money; it was about skin color. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Frank finally sat down, the audience returned, and the chairman introduced Mother, played again by Ernestine. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” Darlene sighed, bumping down to the edge of the little stage to show the audience the lingerie that showed through the opening. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1924 Anderson was offered the chance to give a recital at New York City’s Town Hall, where young artists often were presented to the city’s audiences for the first time. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

To the audience before me, I explained why no tears were to be shed, and why we had no flowers, or singing, or organ- playing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar tells a few jokes to warm up the audience but then gets down to business. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When Sanborn introduced her, she stood looking shyly at this audience of well-dressed people, not knowing what to say. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the audience was seated, the overhead light flickered twice, signaling quiet. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mary Surratt’s attorney frantically works to get an audience with President Andrew Johnson so that he might personally ask Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. for mercy on her behalf. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I look out into the audience to where my family is sitting, about thirty-three rows back. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Sandy appeared, running across the stage being chased by the dog catcher, the audience broke into spontaneous applause. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It gives the audience a starting place for the betting that will continue throughout the Games. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It establishes the connection between the speaker and the audience, and it steers how that speech will be received. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the world turns quiet, and the audience’s roar and analysts’ voices lower to a muffled din. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the audience applauded, I felt a rush. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaker after speaker urged the audience to demand their rights by marching to the courthouse and registering to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people in the audience started laughing at the way the guy was talking, I felt weird, like it wasn't right. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Knowing I was still on display, I gathered myself and straightened in my chair to look out at my audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, a game show audience cheered, fireworks rockets whistled through the air, and several geese honked out a “Hooray!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Standing between the stage and the audience were Fruit of Islam guards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newspapers and magazines kept showing pictures of audiences staring at movie screens through dark glasses with white paper frames. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once a year, Robbie held a fancy recital so that her students could perform for a live audience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They find their own audience and stand or fall of their own weight. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Via and Justin were the last of the actors walking out onstage, and the audience rose to their feet when they took their bows. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Knowing we were always being watched by an unseen audience made an embarrassing situation even more awkward. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Octavian was in the midst of an audience. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His hands trembling, he looked out at the audience. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience claps politely, and my mouth drops open when the lady from our table stands up and walks to the front. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

So perhaps it is not terribly surprising that now, many years later, he still has more interest in the audience than in the performance itself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was a true daughter of that mother, the emotional force of whose acting had moved huge audiences to tears. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a collective, questioning stir from the audience. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put my feet on the pedals and then I chanced a look at my audience. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She tended to show off excessively during these visits, rushing to help Mother out in ways she would not have dreamed of without an audience. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised that I could make a highly intelligent audience laugh. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Orfeo played twice at the palace in Mantua to an audience of fewer than a hundred invited guests. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Accessorized with the right mix of confidence and haughtiness, it reduces my audience to a world of leering carpetbaggers and gasping Aunt Pittypats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And nothing else makes any sense, dad doesn't make sense, mom doesn't make sense, the audience doesn't make sense. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a collective gasp in the audience, followed by an applause that thundered in my bones. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She’d worried for weeks that there might be a sniper in the audience — a scientist who’d want to take her out to do research on her body, or to keep the family from causing problems. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

James Jackson actually made menacing faces at the Quakers in the gallery, called them outright lunatics, then launched into a tirade so emotional and incoherent that reporters in the audience had difficulty recording his words. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and left the stage as the audience cheered. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she does so, every hat, every tie, every spoon in the audience is completely still. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone begins taking turns going up, two at a time, each behind alternate sides of the screen, singing a song in Japanese and clapping while everyone in the audience sings along with them. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As he began talking, he read his audience a quotation from WHO: “MDR is too expensive to treat in poor countries; it detracts attention and resources from treating drug-susceptible disease.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The audience broke into applause, with yells of "Shame to the aggressor! Shame to the aggressor!" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I stand up, I look at the audience and see that they’re crying too, the women wiping their tears with their shawls, even the men catching their tears on shirt cuffs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the curtain closed, everyone in the audience started clapping. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“There are far easier ways to retrieve that ball,” he said, “but they know they have an audience.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I’d already seen the movie, naturally, so while it played, I kept my eye on the audience. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

To our tiny audience, it must have looked as though we were playing not The Tragedy of Hamlet but The Comedy of Errors. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s actually about a young girl who gets shot in a war and is dying in the arms of her really hot friend, but if you smile through such a tragedy, it disarms the audience. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The awards were made on Parent’s Day, before a packed audience in the school courtyard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were crazy actors playing to a crazy audience. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged the bags, one by one, to the double doors that used to open to let in the audience. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Your reviewers needn’t even be a representative sample of your intended audience. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I’m sure his stylist thinks the more of Finnick the audience sees, the better. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

One among that audience exclaimed after a moment, “I sure ain’t!" whereupon all of them joined in laughter and we walked on with Malcolm X waving back to cries of “He’s right!" The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids in the audience would love it; some of the teachers would hate it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Eight, nine, ten, I count the flute players as they return to their seats in the audience. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I let it stretch out for a while, a cold audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"There's like twelve hundred people in the audience, Tiny," I say. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The talking in the audience was getting louder. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the music finally stopped, the audience reacted with stunned silence; the dance had been so beautiful and expressive. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

How delightful to see Your Majesty in your audience chamber earlier. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The boys and the other soldiers who were the audience clapped as if I had just fulfilled one of life’s greatest achievements. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The first time Salva spoke in front of an audience was in a school cafeteria. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nervous to the point of nausea before addressing an audience, Churchill consulted specialists as a young man in the hopes of ridding himself of his speech defects. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

After a round of applause for Mr. Wilde’s speech, students began putting on dramatic performances for the audience, which included several white people, benefactors of the school in one way or another. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gradual crescendo in the percussion section reached a climax that woke the audience. compare with/compare to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience size on October 30 was, therefore, probably much smaller than the six million estimated by the Princeton study. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A property man, dressed in black, moved items around the stage, concealed by his dark clothing, lighting, and the imagination of the audience. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” brought the audience to a standstill. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the audience, the Corporation employees screamed and dove for cover under their seats. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

This was such a novelty at the time it drew gasps from the audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At least, that’s the way Onofre himself liked to tell the story when he had an audience of children and other gullible creatures who believed in werewolves, flibbertigibbets, and miracles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scan the audience, and all I see are eyes and eyes and eyes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The eagerly waiting audience, overdressed in fancy gowns and suits, quickly realized it was no use trying to fan themselves to cool off. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The audience contributed dances from their own plantations and copied each other in the circles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As the audience breaks into a rumble of confusion and bewilderment, I yank open the hangar right as the Team Freeze runs out. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were a few sounds from the audience, but they seemed to be holding themselves in against tremendous pressure. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had shaken the Chief Elder’s hand, smiled politely at the audience, taken her official Assignment papers, and gone back to her seat. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the audience, surrounded by pacifists and draft resisters, was Daniel Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The light was so strong that I could no longer see the audience, the bowl of human faces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scan the audience until I see Mom and Dad near the back. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

At the first “Amen” from the audience I willed the offender to immediate death by choking on the word. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph let out his spare breath with a little gasp that was echoed by his audience. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The long story was ended, but the audience sat silent, entranced by the tale. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He could make his audience both laugh and cry.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was relating the entire history of his life to an audience who knew it already. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The bidding continued between Benji and the rest of the audience, while Felix made his way to the edge of the gym. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It participates in the pathos appeal inasmuch as it stirs an audience’s emotions to laughter—but more importantly, it participates in the ethos appeal, inasmuch as laughter is based on a set of common assumptions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The audience's eyes reflected the stage lights like cat's eyes at night. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I forget the audience completely, something I can never do when I act. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If he decided to show it to May Belle, he would have to explain the joke, but once he did, she would laugh like a live audience on TV. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We had to stagger back to the tiring-room holding our hands over our mouths and close the door, lest we infect the audience. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The princess stepped very close to him and snapped, “I am not an audience, Pyotr. Now, get out of my way!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Principal Rivera walked onto the stage and welcomed the audience to what she called a “very special celebration.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He had offered to go with her, to sit in the audience and listen to her speak. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment the only sound reaching the NBC radio audience was a brief swish! as the radio technicians lunged for their controls. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The self-focus actually connects her more deeply with other people—the other actors, people in the audience, even the fictional characters in the plays. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s also possible that Tania’s Diary of a Red Army Woman sequence, which was full of Russian nationalism, was a little too controversial for American audiences. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I want emotion! I want the ladies in the audience swooning! Ladies, did Mr. Cooper make you swoon just now?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"You have done well, Bran. Here, and at the audiences. You will be an especial fine lord one day, I think." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’m deafened by the chorus of screams that come up from the audience. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Observers in the audience have heard the pop and are amazed by the famous actor making a sudden surprise appearance on the stage—perhaps adding some comical whimsy to this very special evening. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The host and judges are on the floor in front of the stage, with their backs to the audience. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Several audience members shook their heads in disgust or spoke hotly among themselves. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The roar of the audience drowned out my own cheers for the thirteen newly selected members of the USA women’s junior team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He thinks he knows everything,” Colonel Moodus would retort in a sulking tone to his own audience at the other end of the bar. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It’s strange standing outside at the top of the stairs, fully costumed, brightly lit, but with no visible audience to deliver my speech to. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The nationalist on the stepladder, his quick hands slashing through the air, was whipping his growing audience out of its morning listlessness. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ended up with a great meal, a satisfied audience, and more money than they started with. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ford’s Theatre as seen from the left side of the audience section. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The camera pans to show a rapt audience. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But next time,” he called after Emily, “sing to the audience, not to the wall!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Give us the recipe, O Brainy One!" cried the audience impatiently. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I always imagined the king laid the rug in his audience hall so that anyone who came to petition him would step on the greatest treasure in the kingdom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was so cold inside the tent that for the first few minutes the audience was shrouded in a cloud of its own breath. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had taken Estraven six months to arrange my first audience. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the audience rise to its feet in enthusiasm and cheer. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The anthem booms in my ears, and then I hear Caesar Flickerman greeting the audience. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Anybody with a hooked-up computer can now communicate remotely and instantaneously—through the spoken word or through the written—with a potential audience of millions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He threw the bag up in the air and caught it, confident of his audience. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The audiences are modest enough that they remain individual people rather than blending into an anonymous crowd. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I liked to incite an audience, and I was doing so that evening. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly the audiences before whom she spoke offered no challenge to her ingenuity or her imagination. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, lie’s not at home,” Mr. Levy told the audience in the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people in the audience clapped politely. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

People in the audience sprang out of their seats and started shouting. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

George climbed up the ladder to appear above the backdrop, in full view of the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I know that’s right,” a woman in the audience shouted, and everyone cackled. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Of course I know it,” Cob said as he spun his stool around to face more of his audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever performed in front of an audience?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But beyond the hedge, Mundín had run into a captive audience. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Bridge listened to the audience get quiet, probably checking their programs, before she remembered that she was supposed to be sprinting toward the lights. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After the audience had left, we cleared the stage, played rock ’n’ roll, and danced the Chicken, the Mash Potato, the Twist, the Stroll, and many other dances. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My mother had said prayers and begged for an audience with the priest. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

So I quit with the record thing and Fang got what he wanted—an audience of one. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Caesar laughs, and vaguely I realize some of the audience has joined in. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Bran's shoulders were stiff from sitting in the same chair by the time the audience drew to a close. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The tour, which drew enormous audiences, was a huge success and was, in the opinion of many political experts, one of the final determining factors in the passage by Congress of the Nineteenth Amendment. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Unless you’re standing at a lectern addressing an audience, there’s no need to clear your throat. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following the briefing and a moment of prayer with Reverend Wright, Barack walked out to greet the audience, his appearance met with a roar I could hear from inside the capitol. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"The Globe's audience is customarily between five hundred and one thousand. Do you suppose they can watch over every member of it?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were almost no blacks or Hispanics in the audience. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reminded the audience that a country couldn’t be carved up simply into red and blue, that we were united by a common humanity, compelled to care for the whole of society. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Farooq moves into view from the audience as I open my mouth. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The minor officials with whom I was able to win an audience thought me mad. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sing “Jolene,” and maybe it’s my imagination, but I hear a few voices out in the audience singing it back to me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Billy is speaking before a capacity audience in a baseball park, which is covered by a geodesic dome. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, for the...We would like to ask a young man named Adam Costello to come up in front of the audience.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Eroica deliberately sought to disrupt what an audience expected to hear in a symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Still, Peeta and I have given the audience a fairly interesting day. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

No one had a more attentive audience than old Ham Gamgee, commonly known as the Gaffer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Anthony nodded and marched back up the aisle, followed by the others, handing out additional copies of the Declaration of Rights to members of the audience. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He smiled a little and added, “Fondly, of course,” and a low laugh rippled through the audience. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Steve, the host, presents the audience with a puzzle involving Blue, the animated dog. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One argument mathematicians cite for not writing for a larger audience is the esoteric nature of their work. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the audience laughed. Maybe the subtitles were wrong?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Carver or Mr. Whitlock wades in, tossing aside members of the audience. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I let go of her and raise my arms over my head and feel the audience roar louder. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then we collected Katz, who announced regretfully to his adoring audience that he had to go—there were mountains still to climb—and stepped valiantly back into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

So between the ceremonies and events and the reporters documenting my every move as I presided and thanked and kissed Peeta for the audience, I had no privacy at all. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hidden premise of the lawyer’s argument is that if the audience watches the door, they believe it possible that the woman is alive. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Aurelia glanced unseeingly at the huge shambling animal, but she didn’t wait to see it go through its weary tricks, restoring the old carefree spirit to the great audience. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The audience was shocked into silence for a moment, then it yelled with delight. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It empowered and spread forms of music that had developed without notation, making available to a mass audience folk and ethnic music that had up to then been confined to local communities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As the audience entered, an organist played Chopin’s “Funeral March” on the hall’s giant pipe organ. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Then she reminds me to brush up on more seerah, to be really ready, as there might be an audience for the competition. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In a flash, I saw myself as the audience must see me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I just remember the classic Roach Motel slogan that, apparently, the poster is attempting to repurpose for a Latinx audience. Catch you later, Kojo!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Has­san was the perfect audience in many ways, totally immersed in the tale, his face shifting with the changing tones in the story. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The audience laughs right on cue, and Alex shakes out his shoulders a little. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the audience raised his or her hand. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The lead singer pointed at me and clapped, causing the audience to clap louder. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The next time had been the faces in the audience at the Auditorium, just two days ago. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I yelled, “Viva los Freedom Writers!” in front of an audience of university professors at UC-Irvine’s “Pursuit of Peace” conference today. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was human history, masquerading as God’s Purpose, revealing herself to an under-age audience. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, what is my next prediction?” he asked his audience with a sly twinkle in his eye. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Their easy give-and-take, comic timing, and ability to segue into heart-wrenching moments, like Peeta’s confession of love for me, have made them a huge success with the audience. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Long stories and epic tales used music to draw in the audience and to help the reciter’s memorization. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Sad faces filled the audience, and younger kid swiped their eyes on their sleeves. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I decide to keep them as reminder of who I am to the audience. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Social groups for women encouraged lively exchange between old settlers and migrants, creating a willing audience for modeling proper behavior. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When the song reached its peak in sound and passion, a tall, thin man who had been kneeling behind the altar all the while stood up and sang with the audience for a few bars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the lilting strains of “Silent Night” brought Shirley back to Brooklyn, and she searched the audience for her parents. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe in twenty years he’d be the mayor of New York and we’d all be in the audience listening to him talk. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My breath quickens, and I’m frozen there on the stage even as the audience stops applauding and the man calls for the next poet to come up. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Same story. Whoever this Zero person is, he set up this level to report stats to him about every single audience member watching the game.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Addressing a “promiscuous” audience—a group of women and men—was considered scandalous. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Still working on his man, right in the old jungle locale, in dives that you wouldn’t believe existed, the Muslim often collects audiences of a dozen junkies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There—and note the nice rising tricolon at the very outset— you can see a precise shaping of the speaker’s relationship with the audience, and a fastidious, slightly bogus, self-abasement. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The birds loved the bright lights of the theater, and the great, laughing audiences, and all the traveling. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The broadcast time changed to Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. when the network hoped to appeal to families and expand its audience. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I am to hold the water bottle so that the audience cannot see the cut in the side. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Snuffbox,” said Jo, in a sepulchral tone, which convulsed the audience. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then when she finished reading off the names, she asked us all to face the audience and take a bow, and everyone applauded. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Who had ever, in all human history, offered to young writers an audience so vast? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience explodes in applause and whistles and whoops. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dimblewit held his hands up, the smug smile spreading on his putty-like face as he tried to calm the audience down. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Court had adjourned; the noises of the departing audience clattered in the corridor beyond the lavatory door. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t believe in witchcraft, but she knew her audience. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nelson-Rees had been in the audience when Gartler presented his infamous research, and he was one of the few scientists who believed it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The big top is being gutted before the audience has even left it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

After a long pause, somebody in the audience said, “Beginner’s luck?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the majority of the audience, Monroe believed the poem to be rather a brilliant work, so much so that she had hired a printer to produce five thousand copies for sale to the public. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Well, technically there was an audience of one. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I searched the audience and recognized him easily. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If your performance impressed the audience and the owners enough, you were given a token: a tiny set of silver pipes that could be mounted on a pin or necklace. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The audience was laughing so hard that nobody could hear the words of her song. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her striking appearance and velvety contralto voice electrified audiences wherever she went, and as word of her performances spread, other cities were added to the tour. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

From the audience, the wet spots look dark and dirty. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was only playing for myself, but I was a harsh audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The audience breaks out with a few rounds of “Oh no, she didn't” and “Ooh, she told you!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She was alone, pacing slowly, talking under her breath, pointing and directing remarks to an invisible audience in the room. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As slow as the drifting wind, it passed over Torrance, where its only audience was a scattering of drowsy souls, among them the boy in his pajamas behind the house on Gramercy Avenue. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The audience bursts out laughing and Haymitch gives them a half smile. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The audience loves her, and I’m so proud of her. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He and Asher smirk at each other, and the shouts from the audience go up an octave. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no way I wanted to have this conversation with an audience. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Yet some-times she sat on a platform in plain sight of an audience and went sound asleep just as she had often done on the long road to the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to thank everyone who believed in us and our egg,” she said, addressing an invisible audience as if she’d won some grand award and inexplicably putting on a fake British accent. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jordan says, and I realize I’m staring at him, that my wide-eyed scanning of the last hour has finally met an audience who is looking back. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When Helms railed that “we must decide whether we will be ruled by sanity or ruined by savagery,” his audience knew exactly which “savages” Helms meant. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The stares coming from the audience pierce right through me, but the one I can’t deny is Mama. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At school, words were directed to a general audience of listeners. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think he’s the most far gone of everybody. He’s got like a direct audience with God.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes swept his audience, all looking at their shoes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience is patched in to the direct reports from a field artillery battery in New Jersey’s Watchung Mountains. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Because this is the climax of the Hunger Games, and the audience expects a show. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the cafeteria, I walk past my regular table, past Amanda and Roamer and the audience gathered there. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wriggled and stooped past the rest of the audience. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I could hear the jink-jink sound of that carp hitting the net and the screams and laughs of the audience from half a block away. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At every other public ceremony, the audience was silent and attentive. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Is he still pretending to love me for the audience? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Reading aloud in front of an audience was especially difficult for me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was the artist's duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience's job to decipher meaning. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I completely forgot that there was a live audience, and I started having fun. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As the handbook Ad Herennium—which, attributed to Cicero, had a central role in medieval and Renaissance rhetoric— warns, “That is faulty which is said against the convictions of the judge or of the audience.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In between the discovery of the clues, Steve plays a series of games — mini-puzzles — with the audience that are thematically related to the overall puzzle. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the best music my brothers and I had ever heard, with gorgeous cascading chords and an electrifying ragged timing, which compelled the audience to get up and dance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, he produces a term that denotes a coming together of both of those two things—to be countrymen is to experience romanitas as fellowship—and a fraternity between speaker and audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I think we should continue the current romance. A quick defection from Peeta could cause the audience to lose sympathy for her,” says Plutarch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Singing, and the thought of doing so in front of an audience, was another mesmeric way of whittling hours. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His benign smile is less sure now, and people in the audience are beginning to speak amongst themselves, concern rising like the tide. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Once the younger students had filed out, Ms. Udell spoke to the fourth graders and the family members in the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

As the network pundits would later acknowledge, choosing Barack Obama to speak to an audience of millions had been a mighty gamble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The audience laughed, and Jake realized he could still be his funny, breezy self. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so nervous about speaking in front of an audience, especially when I have no idea what the judges will ask me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I had completely forgotten that after the wedding ceremony Arabella and the medical prince link arms and, speaking in unison, step forward to address to the audience a final couplet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The vachettes charged, the volunteers ran for their lives, and the audience cheered. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He continues his story, but aside from my sisters and me, his audience is snagged on what would strike any sane adult as a considerable stumbling block. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Because the audience is not all that verbal or even preverbal, it is important to tell the story visually,” he went on. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A speech suitable for the stag night may not go down so well at the wedding, and decorum is a mobile thing—any good speaker reads his or her audience as he goes along. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Although they had spoken briefly on a number of occasions, Penelope had not been summoned to a private audience with her mistress since the day of her job interview. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The audience applause, which was enthusiastic at each Naming, rose in an exuberant swell when one parental pair, glowing with pride, took a male newchild and heard him named Caleb. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The audience laughed, deep down, from the bottom up and, as suddenly as Malcolm had stirred it, so, skillfully and swiftly, he deflected it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We listened as she took to the airwaves to tell the radio audience she knew a heck of a bargain when she saw one. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Without turning her head from the audience, Hilly gestures to her left, where two dozen colored women have lined up, dressed in their white uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Again the audience howled, and John Isidore felt baffled and impotent rage seep up into the back of his neck. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dorothy looked over at her children, still so young but entranced by the contralto voice that seemed to each person in the audience to be singing to them, only to them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Frantically, I type in another command, trying to go back to being part of the audience again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The curtain rose on Fern Arable holding a blanket in her arms, cooing to a pretend piglet, and the audience applauded. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was onstage, and everyone else was in the audience, waiting for me to do something meaningful. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the audience people are whispering about who they think will win. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would turn right back to the microphone, not to keep waiting those world’s biggest black audiences who had come to hear him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes blurred with tears, and I searched the audience for help from my siblings, but none came. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Performers spotting them in the audience will bring out their best tricks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I raise my flouncy skirt in time with the others and hop into and out of the reeds as the audience cheers. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“A certain gentleman has requested an audience with you,” he said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I stand with Abby, peeking out at the audience through a crack in the curtains. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Not for the first or last time, a composer recycled a good tune that had not yet found its audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Black audiences feel warmer, there is almost a musical rhythm, for me, even in their silent response. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Gartler was essentially telling the audience that all those years researchers thought they were creating a library of human tissues, they’d probably just been growing and regrowing HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By then, the audience was crowding all the exits, shoving to get out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Russell Pickett, the billionaire chairman and founder of Pickett Engineering, shocked the black-tie audience at last night’s Indianapolis Prize by announcing that his entire estate would be left to his pet tuatara. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

To salvage what she could of her standing as a teacher, Aunt Anne used to tell the audience before we went on stage that we had only recently shifted from the piano to stringed instruments. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Rutherford held forth three times a week to an audience of about forty students, occasionally consulting a few loose pages of notes drawn from the inside pocket of his coat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As the announcer introduced us to the audience, we stepped forward and waved. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On this Holy Thursday, Father Restrepo had led his audience to the limits of their endurance with his apocalyptic visions, and Nivea was beginning to feel dizzy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she cleared from the arena, the ringmaster stepped forward and lifted his hands, quelling the audience’s deafening applause. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was the only person who cared to listen to her anymore, although he was a bad audience. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was doing her pageant smile; she was every infomercial I’d ever seen, with me as the studio audience. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Every monster in the audience drew a weapon or extended its claws. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Theaters put on "laughing gas evenings" where volunteers could refresh themselves with a robust inhalation and then entertain the audience with their comical staggerings. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were gasps from the audience, and some of the actors looked at one another in shock. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was pure fun, and the audience was having fun right along with them. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

On my last day of competition, when I went out to perform my routine for the floor exercise final, the audience was cheering and shouting wildly for me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He smiled benevolently over the audience as he reached inside his inner breast pocket and withdrew a pair of reading glasses. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He has the audience from the get-go, though; I can hear them laughing, shouting out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She whips around, squinting as she peers into the audience. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

"Find Sansa and bring her to the audience chamber. Her voice may be needed." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Lincolns’ private afternoon carriage ride and absence from the mansion had left business unfinished, with several politicians still waiting for an audience with the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reluctantly walk out to the mirrors and realize I have an audience. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, music has always had its tribal loyalties and its audience stratification. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The audience, who’s been stunned into silence, breaks into wild applause. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

From backstage, the music begins and blasts through the speakers, and the audience creates a rumbling applause. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Stand here by the curtain so they can’t see you from the audience. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if encouraged, I look up from my feathers and let the audience see my tragic smile of thanks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Visitors stood for their audience, which kept the visits short. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After two weeks and ten jumps, Uncle Al is so desperate he approaches a woman of generous proportions in the audience. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As he waited for his daily audience with the lord of the South Wind, he tried to decide which of the god’s personalities, Roman or Greek, was worse. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I imagined her singing lullabies to an audience of fawns and bluebirds. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Petrosian left the board; Fischer and the audience of twelve hundred continued to sit in darkened silence. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The host read these words for the audience, and when she finished she turned to the subject of my body, although she did not mention it specifically. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The more ambitious and original the work, the greater the tension and the more triumphant the sense of release after the audience’s response has shown that the leap of the imagination was successful. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great gasp went up from the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"My lord," he said, "Lord Baelish is without and begs audience." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m worried he’s doing something far worse than that. I refuse to halt the games just to bow to a hacker’s threat—but the safety of our audience isn’t something I want to compromise.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the first glimpse of him, everyone in the previously restless audience jumped out of their seats and clapped their hands, giving Roosevelt a thunderous standing ovation. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

You get nowhere appealing to commonplaces alien to your audience.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

And somewhere in the watching audience was Ambrose. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our seats were three rows from the front, and I scanned the audience, only noticing a few familiar faces, the Queen of Neat theme song playing quietly in the background. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s talent for communicating with a lay audience was the theme of Time's report. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She had performed before appreciative audiences in concert halls across the United States. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I’m just about to step forward and lift her down when she opens her eyes, removes her left hand from the pole, and in one graceful movement swings around so she’s facing the audience. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

So he decided to act on advice he had been resisting for years: he outlined his speech, tailored it to his audience, and memorized what he wanted to say. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“How many fathers?” he asks again and again in this recorded pageant, and his recorded audience responds, “One!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My audience with the goddess of love was over. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The sound of the restless audience in his ears, Archie scrutinized the paper. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to an audience stilled with awe, he distributed certified photostatic copies of the obscure regulation on which he had uilt his unforgettable triumph. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Plus, the audience will start to get bored, just as the Gamemakers did. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Stella put her finger to her lips, trying to shush the twins, but people in the audience simply chuckled, and Mrs. Spencer waved back, happiness splashed across her face. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This stuff is awkward enough without the audience. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They turn from crowd to audience as though choreographed along with the archers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To say my thoughts aloud would be tipping off the audience that the romance has been fabricated to play on their sympathies and that would result in no food at all. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One of the group members called out to the audience for a suggestion. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I learned how a popular novelist like Dickens, writing for a middle-class audience, makes his readers aware of their ability to effect social reform. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or no—onstage but also in the audience, watching and listening. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The entire audience bowed respectfully toward the little crossed construction of wood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So for the perplexed audiences who first heard it in 1804 and 1805, even the funeral march is denied its thundering climax, collapsing rather than concluding. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Arrest him!” a voice said from the audience, and other people took up the cry. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Kaira exclaimed when the song ended, and the audience laughed and applauded. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The players attacked their lines as though afraid that, if they did not keep their words in close order, the audience might throw comments of their own into the breach. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, the audience’s response changed to: “Oh! Oh! The bees sting! Oh, my mother!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bush then left to give a speech at the Petroleum Museum to an audience of independent oilmen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Thank heaven my audience is not made up of such sobersides. Sander, see that this lad is given instructions in laughing." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She introduces the judges, in the front row, who stand up and wave at the audience. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The converter attachment, which had cost them one hundred dollars, automatically supplied her name whenever the announcer addressed his anonymous audience, leaving a blank where the proper syllables could be filled in. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Respected Chairman”—she bowed to Chacko—“mydearjudges and” —she looked around at the imaginary audience crowded into the small, hot room—“beloved friends.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being a restless child, he quickly grew bored with the familiarity of the dances and chose instead to watch the audiences. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The crowd in the TED Talk audience looked stunned. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could go sit in the audience and watch the show,” he said. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The audience seated in the chamber was a conglomeration of Durham’s various racial factions; there were contingents from UOCI, the BSC, the Klan, and the White Citizens’ Council. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

By now, some members of the audience had looked up, seeing a man climbing out of the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cheerful and outgoing, he was a natural performer who enchanted audiences with his singing and transfixed them with his ballroom dancing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he glared at Carolyn, glanced at his father in the audience, then said, crossing his arms, “I’m doin’ the best I can, woman! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hence, there is an emotional tension between artist and audience that has no counterpart in the relationship of artisan and customer. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience knew that Kehler was facing jail time himself for refusing to cooperate with the draft. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Vinnie slammed his sketch pad closed and proceeded to disappear into the darkened rooms of the house with a girl from the audience. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She could feel the awed admiration of the audience as they saw the robe displayed for the first time in a year, and she felt pride in the work she had done. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a quarter century, they received an audience. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stares at someone in the audience, but I can’t move my head to see who it is. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I looked out into the audience and saw my parents watching me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And my role, as her closest friend, was to give her silent support, as if I was in the front row of the audience when she was performing on stage. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intense lights always made it impossible to see the audience, and that always made the whole thing bearable for me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She finds she is able to make each performance unique, letting the response of the audience inform what she chooses to do next. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s like Beatriz got everyone else in the audience under her spell. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The audience was applauding the choir, which had just finished. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Members of Parliament were being confronted with the reality of slavery, just as audiences at Clarkson’s lectures were when he showed shackles and whips. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We hosted a premiere of the film at our office, and I invited Walter and Bo to address the audience. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He raised the camera so that those in the very front of the audience could see the viewfinder. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We together on a huge hall’s speaking platform, and that vast audience before us, miraculously manifested, as far as I was concerned, the incomprehensible power of Allah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron said the first time the piece was performed, the audience got nervous—they whispered to one another and shifted in their seats, and some even walked out. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“What about my mother’s things?” she asked coldly, no longer caring about the audience and what they heard. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I counted on being with him, on applauding for him from our isolated though well-guarded section of the audience. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And nobody noticed, not the band, not the audience, when this time she really did sing: “Save me, Armpit! A damsel in distress. ” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The master of ceremonies made the introductions with the flare of a circus ringmaster asking the audience to direct its attention please to the center ring. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke to an audience of about fifteen in a quick, nervous style that suited the unornamented old lecture hall in which we were seated. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He looks down, and then out into the audience, and I can tell he is looking for the other Will and not finding him. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

A narration might ask for the clarity and emotional temper of the plain style, for example, whereas the peroration— where you typically seek to stir your audience—gives the opportunity for a higher style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Likewise, your hopes of stirring the audience to anger or pity depends on the extent to which they are prepared to identify with the anger or pity you yourself seem to feel. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her little audience looks at me and starts laughing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A collective groan went up from the large crowd of blacks in the audience when Grabarek announced that no decision had been reached on the Bacon Street issue. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Phillips tells the audience to wait while he moves to a better location. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There we were in an auditorium in front of an audience of fifty kids. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It is because they marched,” Obama told his audience, “that I stand here before you today.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I can’t sing here in front of this small number of people, what in the world will I do when there’s three hundred people in the audience? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In a primitive form of interactive programming, members of the television audience phoned the studio to offer their suggested next move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Below and above us was the audience, row after row of faces, the arena a bowl-shaped aggregation of humanity. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have not been able to ascertain the supposed racial origin of all eighteen lines,” Gartler told the audience. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The men worked well and quickly, with many a sidelong glance at us; they seemed to enjoy having created such a stir and lured such a big audience. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When someone from the audience asked Burt if he was suggesting that this erratic behavior was directly caused by increased intelligence, Burt ducked the question. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, the audience will have no trouble reading him as soon as they get one glimpse at that room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then some random scythe in the audience heckled. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Except for the football boys, our audience was festive. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Walking dogs is so easy, but this is the first time we’ve had an audience. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Inside the churches, the other singers often talk to the audience between songs, about God or a grandmother or what a song means to them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t that be great? To be right there in the audience.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Like a lightning flash in the night, the initial exchange on the floor of Congress in February of 1790 had exposed these divisions of opinion before a national audience for the first time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had lately taken to making conversation with the dummy to add some theater for the audience. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Looking around, I notice my fellow audience members examining their cuticles and staring with great purpose at the exit sign. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

VH1 had its best ratings ever for the first season of Flavor of Love—ratings driven by large white audiences. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

No one will ever get high with me, no one will be my audience as I play piano, and no one will sit shotgun in my dad’s car after I get my license. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Colonel knew his audience and pointed at a gray-haired man with an unlit cigar clamped between his teeth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Darwin did not write for an audience of eleven-and-three-quarters-practically-twelve-year-olds. Perhaps we can discuss his ideas sometime. Would you care to do that?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Did he mean that the audience he had arranged for me with the king tomorrow had raised me to an equality with himself? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I would still have known, like, half the audience, and my grandparents weren’t going to miss this for anything. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Dirty and stinky!" cried the audience, getting more and more worked up. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I’m sure there were three-year-olds in the audience who were looking at me like I was the biggest loser! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

No music plays yet, just a steady beat, which the audience claps to. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

At the last chorus, the audience joins in. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can hear the roar of the audience as the players dart into motion. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are many aspects of the movement that must have seemed strange to contemporary audiences. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In these contests I am not the winner, I am more like an audience; though my brother does not brag, and would probably do the same things, by himself, if I weren’t there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pretty guide thought he was part of the class; the teacher thought that he was planted in the audience to pep up the discussion; the class knew that he was an imposter. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience remained silent, waiting for her to go on. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Not so long ago, he’d fought for his life in the Roman Colosseum before a cheering ghostly audience. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I called out, too loudly, drawing another snicker from the audience. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Students came to the pulpit to tell of their experiences as demonstrators, while speakers from black churches around Dallas County urged adults in the audience to follow the students’ example and get involved. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s no use! Do the best you can when the time comes, and if the audience laughs, don’t blame me. Come on, Meg.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Wells gave a reading soon after her book was published in Greenwich, Connecticut, there were seven people in the audience. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over my earphones, the announcer finishes her speech with a now-standard reminder of what the objective is, for the benefit of any new audience members who are watching. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fire was just to get us moving, now the audience will get to see some real fun. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The other frame kept beaming our grins, showing off our family to an audience of no one. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the final round, the applause from the American audience appeared to be sincere and respectful, but privately, a plaintive cry went up among many of the chess players: “What’s wrong with American chess?” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would tell audiences, “On election day, look down your ballot and when you see the face of a young and handsome man, mark an X.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said you were here to have an audience with the tsar. What was it for?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We children used to suspect, though, that one reason he had wanted a large family was to assure himself of an appreciative audience, even within the confines of the home. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deacon Hurd let a dramatic pause cross the water and hover over his audience. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the audience knew what that meant. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first describes the way a speaker establishes—both overtly and more subtly—his bona fides as a speaker and his connection with the audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Pageants were extremely popular in the early 1900s and commonly drew huge audiences. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before this audience, I tried my best to demolish the false image of American race relations that I knew was spread by the U.S. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

George worked her way through the split in the curtain and surveyed the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

And, indeed, there were some nervous twitters from the audience. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After Hamlet’s play broke off and the audience dispersed, worried and whispering, the night turned even more foul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

One after another, the peculiar children came out of the audience and took the stage, each with an act of their own. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I think I could be speaking blindfolded and after five minutes, I could tell you if sitting out there before me was an all-black or an all-white audience. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why do you leave out the parts of your story that could rile up an audience? Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

One man takes the women aside while the others continue to speak to the audience. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the bear doesn’t mind being filmed and indeed seems indifferent to his audience, pretty generally some fool will come up to it and try to stroke it or feed it a cupcake or something. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Napoleon stood sternly surveying his audience; then he uttered a high-pitched whimper. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He was taken into custody, questioned closely, and eventually was hied to Norfolk, where he has enjoyed an audience with Lord Dunmore himself. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

"His massive figure, commanding, self-confident manner, and magnificent bursts of fiery eloquence, won and held the attention of his audience from the moment he opened his lips." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But then Weary saw that he had an audience. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded those in the audience that there was another reason she was not like them: She had been enslaved. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were locked on each other, completely still, oblivious to their audience. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And all of you”—here Count Olaf gestured out to the audience—“are witnesses.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t know, without her as an audience egging me on, I doubt I would have agreed to go out with him that fast. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Some wore headsets, but others sat in the audience with earpieces like the undercover secret service. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

That evening an audience of nearly a thousand people turned out for the concert in Savannah’s new Municipal Auditorium, whites sitting in the boxes and dress circle, blacks in segregated orchestra or gallery seats. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The second had a problem with his plumbing, and Mrs. Reynolds was not amused by the snickers in the audience or the mess on stage. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to just stand around and be part of their audience! Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Stanton could not attend women’s rights conferences, she often wrote letters that could be read to the audience during the meetings there. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We parade behind her to a row reserved for us in the audience, and the choir heads straight to the risers to sing first. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Take it easy! Take your time!” his audience pleaded with him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience remained curious, but unimpressed; a few were not even especially curious, the few who had expected some such vision to visit that miniature house eventually. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he wasn’t merely a drunk inflicting his delusions of talent on a captive audience. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

From another part of the apartment came a child's voice singing Humpty Dumpty, awakening humiliating memories of my first Easter program during which I had stood before the church audience and forgotten the words . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prolonging his audience, I lost us ours today. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An assembled audience of two thousand settles down as the house lights dim. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Usually we broke down in the middle, and always had a demoralizing effect on the more talented children, and on their parents in the audience. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer smiled when Schmid shook his hand, then he nodded awkwardly at the audience, appeared uncomfortable, and started to go. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thalia and Grover came up and huddled around me, anxious to hear what had happened in my audience with the goddess. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

What he said was nothing new to me, but I felt like a stagestruck actor who forgets his lines because he’s worried about the audience. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She had always welcomed the opportunity to appear before an audience that wanted to hear her sing, particularly where large numbers of blacks were included. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

After he sat down across from Dr. Barnes at the first table, Mr. Larson turned his head and looked out into the audience. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

In order to give the plot enough spark to grab a radio audience, he’d have to make so many changes to Wells’s story that he’d be starting from scratch. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Luckily it was a noisy audience, full of children, and her excitement wasn’t conspicuous. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused briefly to get her bearings and then she attacked, astounding the audience with her speed and single-minded sense of purpose. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Miss New Mexico, can you tell the audience about your day?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The nuns had been flattered, the audience had stood up and given "our devoted teachers a standing ovation," what Laura had suggested they do at the end of the speech. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It’s the October 1994, fortieth-anniversary gala of the New Brown Memorial Baptist Church, and a deacon stands before the audience to muster them up for prayer. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because the Gamemakers couldn't keep it fueled but because, again, that would invite accusations of boredom from the audience. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I add a move that’s like popping M&M’s into my mouth, and then we do one where we throw candy to the audience. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They observed from their canoes; an audience little comforting to those who begged for mercy in the water by our side. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Those in the anteroom could hear the sounds of the enlarging audience outside taking seats. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience picked up the words, helping out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wise persuader starts from one or two commonplaces he knows he has in common with his audience—and, where possible, arrives at one too. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The play was to be put before an audience on Wednesday. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jamison was aware that his usual audience, milling outside the property, observed him with undefined expectations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Who can blame the film’s successive audiences for seeing it the same way? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I can tell you’re not crying because we got trashed at the Quiz Bowl, in front of our own supportive home-state audience,” a voice says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"But you don't have to please me. I'm not going to sponsor you. So pretend I'm the audience," says Haymitch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Someone from the audience whistles suggestively, and a few people giggle. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Actress Laura Keene’s knowledge of the theater’s layout enabled her to bypass the audience and crowds that stood between her and Abraham Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother looked up and realized that the hushed audience was staring at her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Hearing Grace laugh made Maya feel like a comedian who had finally found her perfect audience. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She was the perfect audience, attentive and gasping at all the right moments. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You would be astonished to know how worked up convict debaters and audiences would get over subjects like “Should Babies Be Fed Milk?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was happy not to be there today, in the audience, watching as other young girls heard that they too had been found fit only to breed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me the simplest explanation,” he told the audience, “is that they are all HeLa cell contaminants.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She smiled for a full minute, nodding to friends in the audience. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Greek jokes fell flat on Latin ears should not surprise us; Shakespeare’s jokes don’t cause most modern audiences to fall about either. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She raised one hand and waggled her fingers at the audience. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You won't have to do much. Just sign up to be the sponsor. Didu and Anu can make costumes for your shows that will stun the audience." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He smiles, and the audience laughs with him. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stopped pacing for a moment, casting his dark eyes out over his audience. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The symphony’s first audiences were unanimous in their loud approval of it, with extraordinarily emotional scenes at each performance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The audience wasn’t helping either, because they kept shouting, “Is that you, Horse?” or “Is that you, Tony?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were to ask you to perform in a play that I’d written, before a live audience with a month of rehearsal, I suspect that most of you would say no. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The fire blazed high as he spoke, illuminating the faces of the audience. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She performed at Armstrong before an integrated audience. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“You know, I still get really nervous every time I speak in front of an audience,” Imam Malik confessed. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One time my audience is a convention of university administrators; another time high school teachers of English; another time a women’s alumnae group. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The method today has many refinements, but then it consisted of working the always shifting edges of the audiences that others had managed to draw. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the sterile wonders of movies and television and radio will fail to wipe it out—a living man in communication with a living audience. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled and waved to Wilbur and to the audience, as if she were saying hello to the world. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Dr. Z!” said Mr. Lemoncello, bopping the button to make the audience cheer again. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I wonder if it makes any difference how the wire’s placed, or if this is merely to add to the speculation of the audience. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cob peered closely at the newer, more attentive member of his small audience, the smith’s prentice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Onstage, the actors are more than aware that the audience is in a foul mood. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I also knew that I was writing for an audience—Dr. Luce—and that if I seemed normal enough, he might send me back home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For hours, the audience listened to speeches and debates about women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She performed as a soloist with many of the nation’s leading orchestras and became immensely popular with radio audiences, appearing regularly on The Bell Telephone Hour, a classical program broadcast weekly over the NBC network. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He’s got his audience thinking less and less about whether he’s pulling a fast one and more about the marvelous thing they’re about to see. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If she’d learned one thing from watching him at the Night Zoo all these years, it was how to tell a story, how to capture an audience with embellished words and dramatic pauses. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I learn to leave out big parts of my past and present, depending on my audience. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is more, he had now become very conscious of his audience and of how they were all silently rooting for him. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I want everybody in the audience to hear you.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

No Mary would stand up, no matter how much she wanted the doll, and be a symbol of all the poor little girls in the audience. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday night, Malcolm X spoke to an audience in the familiar Audubon Ballroom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must be on his way to an audience with the Evil One. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“An audience at the court? Why the riddle-talk, my friend? Why do you not say, ‘I am going to the capital—to Songdo’?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He looked thoughtfully into the distance, as though he were addressing an audience somewhere behind Winston’s back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The audience stood and applauded for more than ten minutes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She had risked part of her fellowship money to sing before an audience that knew the words of most German lieder by heart, and she worried that few people would even bother to show up. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Turandot was performed to huge audiences from Milan to Buenos Aires in short succession. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean that, having arranged this audience, you haven’t spoken in favor of my mission to the king, as you—” I had the sense to stop short of “promised.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were a hundred girls in the audience, and they were all going crazy over the Shirelles. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s the only audience I’m caring about. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

On weeknights he argued with the television, but on Sundays he faced a live audience. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a purely local election, but it had a world audience just the same. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The roar of the audience abruptly returns, followed by the announcer’s shocked voice and the jumble of my teammates’ voices all ringing in my ears. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So, he sat and watched the show in the audience with me, and he said things that were hard to listen to because Patrick usually isn’t unhappy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The audience cheered exactly the same way they cheered before. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We were paraded across stages before adoring audiences, chauffeured about in limousines, and treated like royalty at luxurious hotels. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that Stanchion was deliberately spacing things out to give the audience a chance to move about and make noise between the songs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Riddick called a temporary halt to the meeting as the audience dissolved into several small groups. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I had just been nervous and the audience, like Old Chong, had seen me go through the right motions and had not heard anything wrong at all. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is to say, a statusconscious, prim and proper audience of sternly respectable burghers. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"The smiths are in your audience chamber, waiting your pleasure," he said as they crossed the ward. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His music was, however, mostly enjoyed by audiences in his own lifetime, and perhaps most significantly it exerted a huge influence on the debate over music’s future direction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I’ve previously made the comment that any experienced public speaker can feel his audience’s reactions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mere wishful thinking, Farmer declared, basically telling his audience they didn’t know as much about MDR as he and PIH did. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Eventually an unseen studio audience yells out a response. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian Greene’s explanation of the multiverse in chapter 2 shows how a classic stylist can explain an esoteric idea in plain language without patronizing his audience. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

What if they bored the audience to death before I came on! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, we had an audience of ten people, but eventually it grew to twenty, everyone sitting shoulder to shoulder in those long pews. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Dr. Darwin would hold forth for hours at a time at the dinner table and in the parlor afterward with his children and any company as captive audiences. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It draws its comedy from the fact that what, to Flanders and Swann’s twentieth- century Western audience, is a commonplace, is heresy to the cannibals of the song. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I go down a hall beside the studio audience steps, this hallway dingier than the one we entered the studio through, and open the first door I see. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

After working on his statement for about ten minutes, while the audience—in uncomfortable sympathy—sat waiting, Euwe read his confession aloud, signed it, and handed it to Efim Geller, Spassky’s second. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She's easy to spot; the audience in this school is mostly white. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On these occasions, a human audience was welcome, but entirely incidental. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A show without an audience is nothing, after all. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Joon, now that he has an audience, starts to do tricks. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

One cannot speak to a mass of people as one addresses an audience of two dozen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are concerned not with the public as a statistical entity but with their particular public, their audience; quality rather than wide approval is what matters to them. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before them, the audience of Corporation employees clapped and cheered. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hope can sing . . . my sister says in wonder as my mother and the rest of the audience start to clap. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I simply fix my eyes on a point far in the distance and pretend, there is no audience, no hysteria. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once he got there, he plugged in his PowerPoint presentation so the audience could ooh and aah. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“And when I crossed ‘AIDS, women, and poverty,’” he told his audience, “the message said, ‘There are no studies meeting those specifications.’” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“He’s not seeing an audience today,” the doorman said. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Applause rose from the audience; at the anteroom door, Malcolm X turned and looked back at his young lady assistant. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good audience for a horror picture. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone rustles coats and programs while the flute players thump up onto the stage, passing the singers as they find their chairs in the audience. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

His slow brown eyes search the audience for friends. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been transformed, and now, lying restlessly in bed in the dark, I felt a kind of affection for the blurred audience whose faces I had never clearly seen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s why I had to drop out. It was only two thousand people. I need a bigger audience.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was kinda cool having a published poet in the audience. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people in the crowded audience, who though respectful had been shifting in their seats and whispering, quieted completely when Kira and Thomas entered and took their places. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke to the large audience calmly and with a great deal of composure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I looked out across the audience from underneath the skull, with Jimmy’s hand under my chin. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But first the lawyer, and then the judge, are able to use logos to sway the audience’s conviction. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dad had found Gat both a decent chess opponent and a willing audience for his boring stories about military history, so they’d spent some time together. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

If it was just the two of us up there, all the kids in the audience would be trying not to laugh. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’m in the audience, flailing my arms like an idiot, signaling for Tanisha to let loose. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

With a tight throat and chugging heart, I looked out to the audience, trying not to telegraph my panic, searching for the safe harbor of my mother’s face. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My mom steps out from the wing closest to the audience on the other side of the stage. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The musician’s expression fell, but he managed a sickly smile and a nod to the audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The man who crafted it more than one hundred years ago knew how to shake up an audience. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I’d finished laying the last transcontinental rail and pounded in the Golden Spike, and the audience was standing and hollering, and the next day, I’d be handing two Audubon prints to Mr. Powell. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But because of what followed, no audience would ever see it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

An audience member asked a prepared question, and Arletta Paisley gave a natural but also prepared answer. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In the audience, Terryl and the families were not sure what to think. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was as if there were an audience to my life, that swirl of faces along the river, and in my head I could hear people screaming at me. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an expression of disagreement, Stanton and Mott left the stage and sat in the audience. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The audience will have been beside themselves, knowing I was in the tree, that I overheard the Careers talking, that I discovered Peeta was with them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the lead singer of the Flap-Jackeroos saw me, he told the audience they had a special accompaniment, and I walked up the stairs to join them. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had decayed before a national TV audience, a miniseries of a death. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunlight fell between tufts of fast-shredding cloud and lit the white Panamas that flecked the audience. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I can hear the audience shuffling and muttering. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was so relieved when I finished, I barely even heard what Charlie was saying when he asked me a final question: Would I like to introduce the next speaker—Angelina Jolie—to the audience? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

On the first day of the convention, Woodhull tried to address the audience. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Well, Foxface died almost a day ago, so there's been plenty of time for the audience to place bets and get bored. I guess it could happen at any moment," says Peeta. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A wireless in the landlady’s sitting room came on, and the laughter of an audience swelled as the valves warmed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“When this is over, the whole audience will be chanting ‘Riverview stinks!’ The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

And out in the audience my mother found herself doing a crazy thing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t a large amount of power for the product one is getting,” he would assure his rapt congressional audience. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The audience heaves a single sigh of relief, even though I am completing my dance long after the music has stopped. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was the pride one can feel only when, far from home and surrounded by a captive audience, you are called upon to explain what is undoubtedly the single greatest thing about your country. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For the benefit of neighboring rooftops she strutted and shrieked; with each proclamation her audience expanded. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Before an audience of intellectuals, Swammerdam cut away the skin of the silkworm to reveal what appeared to be a tiny model of the future moth inside, from proboscis to antennae to folded wings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

George said nothing, but she pictured herself onstage, at the top of the ladder, sharing Charlotte’s words with the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She clapped, and the audience joined in as the lights dimmed. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I struck the first chord hard and waited as the sound of it began to fade without drawing a voice from the audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to strangle him, but I plowed on and the audience rewarded me with resounding applause. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

No one in the audience perceived a link between the two subjects being discussed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Grand High Witch stood on the very centre of the platform, and those dangerous eyes of hers travelled slowly around the audience of witches who were sitting so meekly before her. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was so much chaos from the audience, it was a long while before she could talk again. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Academics in the softer fields dress up the trivial and obvious with the trappings of scientific sophistication, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It included a list of specimen arguments, explained how an audience could be swayed, and discussed everything from how to discredit a hostile witness to how best to modulate your voice when speaking. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The buckets were swiftly emptied, then refilled, as the Fruit of Islam ushers covered the entire audience. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when President Snow silences the audience and says, “What do you think about us throwing them a wedding right here in the Capitol?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was wonderful echoing through the crowded space—that deep, emotional, heart-stirring voice that had thrilled many a New York audience. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great sigh rose up from the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s no hurry,” said Kaira, as out in the arena the audience was stomping and clapping. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Being in Scotland, I knew the audience was going to cheer extra loud for the gymnast from Great Britain, who was finishing up on floor right as I mounted the beam. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

While our audience cheered, we ran after our rocket and watched the last of its sputtering rocket candy burn up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The audience laughed and the show went on while I burned with humiliation. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I stand there shaking from head to foot, moved to the deep-sea depths of my being, like a creature thrown into audience with thunder. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little worries whirled up within me: That I might forget my new name; that I might be recoginzed from the audience. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A voice-over tells the audience what they are viewing as we try to regroup, react to the black gel shooting from the street, lose control of the situation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Country Joe raised the guitar high in the air, gave a triumphant wave to the audience, and walked offstage. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dany wanted to believe that... but if that was so, why had Hazzea’s father waited until the audience hall was almost empty to come forward? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As I argued fleetingly in my discussion of pathos, the joke can do more than just perk up a drowsing audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Very few people in the audience had ever served in the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The audience is standing up, clapping and smiling and whistling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the conclusion of the show, many people in the audience lingered. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had written to the wrong person; the militant and courageous broadside had been delivered before the wrong audience. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s because the Internet has shattered traditional business models and fractured the attention of the audience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“These are the theta waves,” he told the audience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The audience had come to the school cafeteria because they wanted to hear him. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For the audience. And your chain. The Hand's chain." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some incisive commentary which no one in her audiences could fully comprehend. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look out into the audience, but it is a blur of faces. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He searches the audience for someone he knows, but it isn’t his crowd—lots of lit majors with leather satchels and gold- rimmed glasses and fountain pens, lots of people Ruth would have waved to. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The audience roared when the quartet took the stage, and I leaned back and shut my eyes, pretending the applause was for me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sheryl’s laughter travels from the audience to the stage, and I stick my tongue out at her. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Privately, before try-outs began, I had slipped backstage and taught Stage-Annie how to palm a treat and pass it off so that no one in the audience could see. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shukumar was soon bored; he was unable to decipher the literary diction, and couldn’t join the rest of the audience as they sighed and nodded solemnly after certain phrases. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I got so I could feel my audiences’ temperaments. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

George reveled in every moment, sharing her voice with the audience and watching them watch her as they waited for her next words. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The audience repeatedly cried out for them to speak louder. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, I was shocked that the audience was shocked. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I caught Aimee Hall talking about you on Monday at lunch. I walked in late, and she was saying the usual stuff, to the usual audience, you know?” she starts. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"We are listening!" cried the audience who were now jumping up and down in their chairs with excitement. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Moss sat in the chair Eugenia had been in, taking in the audience as they tried to settle back down. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Hawk began reciting the last sentence Lincoln would ever hear, a series of corny insults that delighted the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the moment that the first note was struck, the audience became completely spellbound. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he granted us an audience, he sat in a chair in his front yard looking away from us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not just the front rows, but the whole audience suddenly got up on their feet, whooping, hollering, clapping like crazy. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He tosses them to the nonexistent audience, and as I watch to see where they land, the pervert from Overlook Road appears an inch from my face. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was him again, and once more the audience laughed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And yet the great, silent audience on the wharf, men, women, and children, had not gone home. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, an animal wasn’t the audience she wanted. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln’s head is visible over the top of his rocking chair, just four short feet in front of Booth; then Lincoln looks down and to the left, at the audience. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The toughest audience he ever faced was waiting for him across the Atlantic. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When a girl in the audience asked him to explain how he escaped, he looked pained. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I leapt to my feet and bowed for my audience. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She attended another women's rights convention in New York City in 1853, where a number of men in the audience tried to disrupt the speakers by shouting and hissing. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When Comrade Pillai spoke next, he spoke in Malayalam and made sure it was loud enough for his audience outside. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the distinguished British scientific administrator Walter Fletcher warned an American audience that commercial prospects were certain to exercise “a vicious influence” over academic standards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Because actors were not usually identified by name, the best ones performed in various roles without the audience knowing it. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The fat man was playing upon the whole audience without the least show of exertion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see Mr. Thompson’s smug face staring out at an unimpressed audience. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

After an intense moment of silence, the audience began to boo. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’m still awed by the amount of courage it must have taken, to approach the stage with her head held high, to stand and speak before that booing audience. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But audience members are always free to wander around the landscape however they wish. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To keep my audience enthralled, I developed a comedic routine featuring “funny” lines about my life. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The announcer sounds far away, and the cheers from the audience turn into a mess of background noise. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The audience had become more and more quiet as Chief Meligqili spoke and, I think, more and more angry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer rushed through the backstage corridor onto the subtly flower-bedecked stage and was greeted by the polite applause of an audience of twenty-three hundred. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Mrs. Miller says I can’t write about Street Fighter because good writing cares about keeping the audience interested, so I’ll skip all my sweet moves. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Though she has acquired a taste for classical music over the years—“it’s like learning to appreciate a stinky cheese”—she’s been a not-always-delighted captive audience for many of my marathon rehearsals. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the audience flows out of the auditorium, there is the same jubilant descant, the great sound of crowded people explaining things to each other as fast as their minds will work. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Action, action,” came the shouts from the audience. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Half of being a good trouper is knowing which way your audience leans.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At forty minutes past the hour, the Mercury Theatre’s Dan Seymour announces to the audience that they are listening to a presentation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds on CBS Radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Hannah is dry as always, but leaves the audience deep in thought. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As I speak, I remember to look into the audience, and I pick a few friendly faces to focus on, including Briana’s. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Good Boys, though wordy in parts, is nonetheless a great play for high school actors and audiences. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tim holds back the curtain so I can look out into the audience. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Performers came because Imre offered what every artist needs most—an appreciative, affluent audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If it please my lord, I would request a privy audience.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Shall I...?" the nun says, looking at the avid faces of her audience. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The audience, who paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The conclusion was even more blunt this time: “Kenna, as an artist, and his songs lack a core audience and have limited potential to gain significant radio airplay.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later I walked down the stairs, the Story Box on my back, to give my first official performance as Anansesem to the most dangerous audience I could ever imagine. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As the audience on the platform listened in disbelief, a higher note came from the train as it approached, and a lower note emanated as it sped away. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Every witch in the audience was staring at Bruno. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The usual audience for The Mercury Theatre on the Air was about only a tenth of the thirty-five million people who tuned to The Chase and Sanborn Hour. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I glanced swiftly around at the rest of the now seated audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Down in the audience, more than fifteen hundred people went wild. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rhetoric is about connecting with an audience; that means finding shared assumptions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When they finished their regular act, the audience went wild. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

My only consolation is that at least I don’t get nervous playing the piano in front of an audience. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I know that being in the audience is participating, but I don’t know. Maybe we can think of something for people like me to do.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As he approached, it was easier for Kira to watch without changing her position, since her chair faced the audience, away from the stage. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience in turn shouted, “The murderer has informed against himself.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s going to show up for graduation, sitting in the audience. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He watches the audience look on in amazement. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The musicians played and she sang, and this time the audience sighed and sat forward, a few of the men stood up in surprise, and a winter chill moved through the amphitheater. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rights himself and we just cling to each other while the audience goes insane. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now, she looks into the faces of the people in her audience as they look into hers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“They are dead!” called Capricorn to his audience. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the dream, I made my maiden entrance upon the stage, and the audience at once broke into gales of applause and laughter. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me wanted to search the audience for her, to find the face of the woman I was singing with. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most of them involve Gale and me out hunting and somehow I don't think these will play well with either Peeta or the audience. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell took the side steps off the stage and sat down in the first row of the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Matt thought the audience looked bored, although they tried to conceal it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in a sudden intuition, right outside the Keno Amusement Center, I knew it wasn’t the movies I wanted, but the audiences. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that he did not always seem to judge his audience right—a failure of ethos. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“There were like hundreds of people in the audience that night,” said Charlotte, and it took me a second to realize she was still talking about Oliver! Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew the dictator’s wife hadn’t written a word of it, but the audience clapped politely. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn't drink more than I did, couldn't write poetry in notebooks and read it out loud to an audience of strangers, and couldn't use the words flick, freebie, cyberspace, progressive, or zeitgeist. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There were at least a hundred Marys in that audience. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Editorials by Austin, an uncompromising advocate of integration and full rights for blacks, had a national audience. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as easy as taking bets from the numbers, but with a captive audience. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been listening and silently rebutting each sentence with my eyes closed; then there was a hush, which in an audience warns that something unplanned is happening. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our audience all looked up after it with their mouths open. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At gatherings, droller members of the audience would sometimes ask him if he could get his elements to play them a little tune. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After the illusionist takes her bow and disappears before her rapt audience’s eyes, they clap, applauding the empty air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“First strike!” the announcer screams in disbelief as the audience goes insane with cheering. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A day meant all the time in the world to gather an audience. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was pleased by the amazement on the faces of her audience. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Many in the audience had thought the day would never come, but all were happy it did. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She looks furious, like she hates everyone in the audience. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the end, he asked the audience if there were any questions. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The father gathers his thoughts and scans the audience. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I neither marched up to the stage like a conquering Amazon, nor did I look in the audience for Bailey’s nod of approval. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bamboo poles morphed into snakes, slithering up my ankles, with thousands of people in the audience pointing at me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But it was whole, and as I played the audience sighed, stirred, and slowly fell back under the spell that I had made for them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But whatever he's done in the arena, he must have the audience convinced it was to keep me alive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I mean, you don’t need an audience, right?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If only I had his courage to get out in front of an audience like that. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

You can burlesque your opponent’s position in a way that makes it unattractive to the audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The audience applauded for three minutes, despite attempts by the ushers to keep them quiet. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For Booth, this was his final and greatest performance, not just for the small audience of soldiers at Garrett’s barn, but also for history. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On The Best of Donahue the studio audience watched a clip from a film in which a black busker was singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in a subway station. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the remark when I stood in a university auditorium and saw an audience of brown and black faces watching me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dussel calmly observed the scene, his hands on his hips, while the rest of the audience roared with laughter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Going from one reading to the next, across the country, Wells began to see changes in the composition of her audience. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of her speech, the audience applauds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the breathing, the clearing of throats, the accidental springing up of a seat as the audience adjusts and the conductor lifts his baton to begin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Those in the back rows of the audience were having trouble hearing him, so they got out of their seats and rushed closer to the stage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It is most effective in securing the audience’s attention. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please notice if you can see my spots from the audience. If you can’t, then I know that I can be a professional ballerina someday.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer able to afford her “hatchetation” raids, she instead took to the stage, where she entertained audiences by reenacting some of her most spectacular saloon-destroying accomplishments. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The production was so popular that national and international tours were organized to provide an authentic presentation of the fictional story to audiences everywhere. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was in the audience and gave no reaction, as if he was slightly embarrassed and wished he were someplace else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackwood was a stiff man and spoke artificially, as if he were addressing an audience through a microphone. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And nobody in the audience was going to adopt him because nobody had ever even seen him. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She senses the audience is evenly split in its support of one woman or the other. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stylist and friend, Cinna, who designed the gorgeous outfits that first made the audience take notice of me in the Hunger Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when it came time for the performance, I looked out into the audience, saw the sea of faces, and froze. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

That same message was directed at another audience. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We Souls, sitting in the audience, applauded, and Ethan stood and yelled, "Bravo! Mrs. Reynolds. Bravo!" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Often, there are close-ups of his face, so it is as if he is almost in the room with his audience. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The announcer is handed a news bulletin, and he reads it to the audience. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Min has some work that must be transported—for an audience at the royal court.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Someone else put her back together, a man from the audience who knew some magic, and then the two of them ran away together and my granny was left entirely alone.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, the audience up here at the Bronx “Y” will probably be a little parochial, but if I make good in the lecture, I might one day end up speaking down at the Lex. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your arguments will tend to prosper if they are founded on the common assumptions of your audience—or, in special cases, if the audience is minded to defer to your authority. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But often it was profoundly hilarious, and the audience howled with delight. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The left side of the president’s body turned toward the audience, he faced the stage below. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never thought about what I would say to an audience, so I was unsure if anything I was saying made sense. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The audience gasped when I took my first few steps. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The audience is frozen, hanging on my every word. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Yet I have always tried to take the same care to explain matters to great audiences as to small ones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the brainy people in the audience, like Grace’s father and the district superintendent, chuckled. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A roar comes from the audience, and her opponent shakes her hand grudgingly. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bradbury’s complaint found an increasingly sympathetic audience at the General Advisory Committee. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She did her flirty wave to the cameras, which made the audience chuckle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The audience began to laugh and enjoy themselves. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“She simply must have her own tent. We’ll put the seats in a ring or something, keep the audience right in the middle of the action.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The song was both a remembrance and a prayer as the men’s voices floated out over the audience. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Grand High Witch stretched her stringy neck forward and grinned at the audience, showing two rows of pointed teeth, slightly blue. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

O’Dell worried, looking over at our audience, which was audibly grumbling about the delay. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I know something,” Miranda repeated, this time more loudly, sensing the size of her audience. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, so the studio audience has noticed, but seriously.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s run that again. And girls in the audience, show some respect or consider yourself disqualified!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The audience murmured, and Arletta sat there and blinked and smiled for a few seconds too long. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Its ability to retain its audience would be far more important. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At his suggestion, the entire audience turned to Kamen and applauded. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Bull continued to speak, gesturing with his right hand, his lips moving, his eyes narrowing, as he continued the lecture in a soundless world where he was the sole audience. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am surrounded by an anxious silence—like the hush of an audience as the curtain is about to rise. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they march Snow out the door, the audience goes insane. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He won’t be able to find a certain clue that might be obvious to the audience at home and he’ll look beseechingly at the camera. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a single person in that audience believes for a second that what I do up there is real,” he says, gesturing in the general direction of the stage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The violence was bad enough, and being made to watch it was even worse, but with Mrs Pratchett in the audience the whole thing became a nightmare. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simon once said that when the stage lights are on, the audience looks like a giant dark blob. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Stanton’s husband told her that men in the audience could tell “whether their lady friends have round and plump legs, or lean and scrawny ones.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

More than once I found myself hearing something personal or foolish read to this audience. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

A boy might be praised for his scholarship, and the audience reminded of his special abilities in science. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If ‘Romantic’ still means anything specific in the history of music, it best refers to a period when the composer’s or performer’s personal emotions, or sentiment, became paramount in the dialogue between music and audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Go to some noble, then, or seek an audience with a priest of Amon? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“The audience takes pleasure in themselves for anticipating the point.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We shall not waste time looking for evidence as to who betrayed Mandela,” she told the audience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Roosevelt clearly pointed to the exact location of the formerly unknown river, the audience listened in rapt attention to his stories of hardship and survival. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

If at the heart of rhetoric is the ability to position oneself in regard to an audience, their exchange demonstrates Satan’s mastery. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Kim nodded along with those in the little audience; inlay work was common enough in other arts, but no one there had ever seen it used in ceramics before. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I taught each of The Souls how to palm a treat so that no one in the audience would notice. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The audience chatter tapers off as the stage lights come up, and Student Council Maddie steps up to the microphone. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

That June, he appeared in front of the most elite basketball players in the world, an audience of one hundred rookies entering the National Basketball Association. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And when Marian performed before predominantly white audiences in the big cities of the Northeast and Midwest, reviewers who praised her voice often commented that she did not handle foreign languages well. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z