The Webern was especially handsome, though its whispering style was probably inappropriate to a big hall and the noisy, restless audience it housed on Thursday.

When such people tell you that a particular passage makes the audience uneasy or restless, then they seem (to me) as cautious and absurd as landladies and girls-who-won't.

They stood strained and awkward and unecclesiastical, these shabby good men, before the restless audience.

Walter Trentkamp of the FBI stood in silence before the restless audience.

Inside, Judge Brenda Dowery-Rodriguez warned the restless audience to be quiet as Mr. South and Ms. Farmer were led in and took places at the defendants' table.

Unhappily for some in the restless audience, it had to be.

On television, Mr. Clinton still wears the harried look of a vaudeville actor performing before a restless audience.

Philip scanned the restless audience.

He waited expectantly, giving no hint of his personal preference in the matter and paying no attention to the restless audience and the rising murmur of anxious whispers.

By the time the performers had gotten well into the threshing scene, a member of the restless audience called out to the flailing trio, "How 'bout a beer break?"