claque

But of course the claque kept on; they had been paid to.

One can always tell a claque, they react too soon.

First he "did not have enough money to afford a claque."

He left behind no powerful political organization or claque of partisans.

There was usually a tiny Nixon press claque on his campaigns.

Slip from the claque, though, and it is apparent you are finished.

Poor Helen had no claque in the audience at the ceremonies.

If the singer did not pay, the claque would hiss and boo.

What prompted so fine a writer as Bowen to join the claque?

While his claque was applauding, the three judges huddled in strategy.

"I wonder who the leader of their claque is.

It was a claque applauding the American generals and politicians in charge.

"He sent Mohammed in last night to gather a claque of about a hundred or so.

In the 19th century there was very often a claque at performances of an opera.

By 1830 the claque had become an institution.

On the contrary, Brazil has little interest in the war, beyond a claque of naval warfare fans.

When the offended audience resisted, the Clinton traveling claque had to relent.

Then he made his newspapers a claque for Mrs. Thatcher.

One could regard the approach as manipulative, the theatrical equivalent of the opera claque.

Very often a singer would have to pay some money to the claque so that they would applaud him (or her).

The prettification ignores the damage the Saddam claque is doing to the world.

He often manages to talk like one, using inflammatory excesses that make even his press claque wince.

Customers, designers, fashion critics and other interested parties form a self-sustaining claque.

Theaters sometimes use Claque who are instructed to give ovations at pre-arranged times.