How To Use Claque In A Sentence
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I seem to recall reading that Ravel did something similar on purpose, omitting the composers 'names from a concert program and then sitting in mortified amusement as the pro-Ravel claque unwittingly booed his own piece.
Reading Session
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He stands upon a lower grade of the social step-ladder than the _claqueur_; very unjustly, as it appears to us, his scope for the display of original genius being decidedly larger.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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The manager of a theatre sends an order for any number of claqueurs.
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Is that crisis likely to go away after an emboldened army of the righteous (and well-financed claque of self-styled "economically responsible" free market boosters) won more nominal power?
Danny Schechter: After the Election, What About the Economy?
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Opéra Comique, I often obtained admission to that house as a _claqueur_.
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
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He detested three things: a Jesuit, a gendarme, and a claqueur at a theatre.
The Paris Sketch Book
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He got clapped and cheered by the audience, or at least by the noisy loyalist claque who are dotted about the hall.
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Some claqueurs even developed specialties - such as the rieur, the most expert laugher in a given claque.
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'Cracks' On the subject of reimagined history, there's a vicious little claque at the center of the period piece "Cracks," the curiosity from Jordan Scott daughter of Ridley, niece of Tony, which brings to mind both "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "Lord of the Flies.
'Win Win' 1, Sports Clichés 0
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In even earlier times, politicians - even party leaders - used to address open public meetings in their election campaigns, not just carefully screened, ticket-only claques.
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Nature had cast this mild-eyed individual for the part of accompanyist in the comedy we call life; a _rôle_ he sometimes varied as now, with the office of _claqueur_, when an uncommonly clever proof of madame's talent for business drew from him this noiseless tribute of applause.
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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The _chatouilleur_, or tickler, a variety of the genus _claqueur_, is in vogue chiefly at the smaller theatres.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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If you wrap your derision in the flag, you'll always have a claque of bootlickers eager to excuse whatever you do.
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IDAMORE, nick-name of Chardin junior while he was _claqueur_ in a theatre on the Boulevard du Temple, Paris.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
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What Stravinsky leaves out, though is the fact that much of the booing was due to a claque that had been paid by enemies of the composer to disrupt the performance.
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I wonder if anyone else has noticed that whenever a black conservative voices an opinion, the liberal claque insists that he's not an authentic black, and when a white conservative voices an opinion, Obama's sycophants insist he's not an authentic American.
Obama's true colors
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If you wrap your derision in the big red flag you'll always have a claque of bootlickers eager to excuse whatever you do.
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This claque of journalists and pundits rooted overtly for Bush's transfiguration which they seemed convinced was inevitable, if it wasn't already happening right before their eyes.
George Bush's last second chance and the American refutation of the Book of Ecclesiastes
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His publishers have now thought it worthwhile to bring out Bolaño's very first published novel, The Skating Rink, hoping for a readership quite different from the tiny claque which greeted its first publication in 1993.
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño – review
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Oscar faced the American Philistine public without his accustomed "claque", and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power.
Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions
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No _claqueur_ ever remembered to have heard the like before.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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How on earth could we have put this scheming, mendacious little man and his miserable claque back in office for another three years?
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No claque of paid liars can cheapen the sacrifice and nobility of the cause.
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This has been attributed to the workings of the claque of a rival singer; but whatever the truth of the matter, it was Albani's first and last appearance in that theatre.
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Visually and choreographically, the show is a snore, but you might be awakened by the hyperboisterous audience carrying on like a claque, which it may have been.
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At one public meeting open to all a 'claque' of Islamists urged the adoption of Sharia Law (the first time I heard mention of this name for the summary justice system of the theocrats).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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In that sense Labour and its lickspittle claque of hangers-on has done us all a great service and has ensured that Mr. Wilders and his views get enormous publicity.
Archive 2009-02-08
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Perhaps it was a claque: a paid band of willing clappers.
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Still, with a sycophantic media claque in close support, his is the dominant voice in public discourse.
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The speeches went on, the ‘Internationale’ was being repeated for the tenth time, the sailors performed their fancy exercises and the claqueurs on the reviewing stand were shouting hurrahs.
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And let us not forget the chilling spectacle of that State of the Union address, with the claque and brass popping up with applause at every stumbling word like so many automatons at a court masque for their Sun King.
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The old fellow travelers and Honecker claques became deputies and ministers in reunited Germany, just as former Nazis enjoyed political careers after the war.
The Lives of Nazis, the Stasi and Others
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The claque of vegetarians at the table enjoyed a dish of sweetly tangy braised endives with chestnut purée, but a wispy open ravioli with chanterelles tasted mostly of sweet corn and bubbles.
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Nature had cast this mild-eyed individual for the part of accompanyist in the comedy we call life; a _rôle_ he sometimes varied as now, with the office of _claqueur_, when an uncommonly clever proof of madame's talent for business drew from him this noiseless tribute of applause.
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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But in any case there will appear in Leipzig as a claqueur
Letters
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One of the more depressing aspects of this is the "news management" of the story by the BBC, who delightedly showed the Blairesque General Synod Claque (with a few principled dissentients) applauding this loose-tongued Archbishop.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Brunet's tongue was little relished by the imperial _charlatan, -- le claqueur de la Grand Armée_, as he has been called.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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Navarrot, the ministerial claqueur, was already applauding
His Excellency the Minister
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Before enlisting he had been the chief of a gang of claqueurs, whose business it was to lead the applause, or it might be, the hissing at the theatres of Rome.
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I hesitate to use the word “claque,” but the guys are behind me all the way on this one, and the place erupts with a noise not heard since Jason Varitek stuffed his catcher's mitt in Alex Rodriguez's mug.
My Poetic Nemesis
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In the title story, ‘The Lost and Found,’ Dulce Maria O'Riley de Vaca works part time as a claqueur, applauding for a television program called ‘The Lost and Found Show.’