A crowd-pleasing favorite was always “Sixteen Tons.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Taint in the Blood]

KING: Several GOP long shots also had crowd-pleasing lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2007] Reference

I pondered my lingering unease with that crowd-pleasing interaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanjay Khanna: Expert As Frenemy: Notes On The New Yorker Summit] Reference

Gordon Brown is not a glad-handing, crowd-pleasing, feel good kind of guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 17, 2007] Reference

Plus, T3 hits its crowd-pleasing marks: Silly clothing-acquisition scenario?.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Back -- Why the Terminator Is Unstoppable] Reference

By contrast, right-wingers have taken a more crowd-pleasing line on spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE FAB BLAIR BOYS] Reference

Gore is the first to admit his own limitations as a crowd-pleasing vote-getter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Katovsky: Draft Gore Movement Picks Up Steam] Reference

He grew contemptuous of the bands 'crowd-pleasing antics and their trite music.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw] Reference

Wow, he usually reserves that crowd-pleasing favorite for when company comes over.    From Wordnik.com.  [toastcrumbs Diary Entry] Reference

Others use crowd-pleasing as a criterion that teaches one how to shape one's works.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Weinberger: Andrew Keen's Best Case] Reference

Michael Heseltine just rolled back the years with a crowd-pleasing address to conference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hezza still a conference darling after all these years] Reference

Watching Clapton deliver power chords or take a crowd-pleasing solo just doesn't excite me anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: Clapton/Winwood: In the Presence of the Lords] Reference

These works aren't being billed as sweet decor, as cute pick-me-ups or as crowd-pleasing tchotchkes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sculptures add color to New York Avenue, but are they art?] Reference

I'll spare you the rest because this was merely the funereal prelude to the crowd-pleasing Froelich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Esther J. Cepeda: Rational Exuberance: Executives' Club of Chicago Economic Forecast 2009] Reference

Sure enough, after the crowd-pleasing, two-hour Poison concert, the Bret Michaels reality show set in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mara Reinstein: My Rockin' Night with Bret Michaels] Reference

A six-footer was turned loose yesterday after four crowd-pleasing months at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2007] Reference

Freed from the need to sell tickets, the TV show doesn't have to swell to a crowd-pleasing gridiron drive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Tv Is Better Than The Movies] Reference

Right now, that's what many people are wondering after Oprah and Obama's speech-filled, crowd-pleasing weekend.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2007] Reference

These masked men are starting their 28 years -- continuing their 28 years of crowd-pleasing precision marching.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2009] Reference

She writes, directs, edits, produces, stars in and even composes music for her crowd-pleasing directorial debut.    From Wordnik.com.  [HuffPost Coverage: One Night, Three US Premieres] Reference

We have the ages 8-80 crowd-pleasing social justice cause film of the year and you can order it right off our website.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melissa Silverstein: What's Your Point, Honey?] Reference

A small, gut-wrenching drama isn't going to come from behind against a big, crowd-pleasing adventure with a happy ending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Got Nominated?] Reference

The startling lesson of "Wrong," however, is how often medical researchers engage in similar crowd-pleasing charlatanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why we get things so wrong: Books by Kathryn Schulz and David H. Freedman] Reference

Cameron then tossed out another crowd-pleasing proposal, to reduce the size of Parliament, which flummoxed the PM further.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Still not finished with the crowd-pleasing demonstrations, Cohen implored the students to close their eyes for his finale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bryan Bissell: Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Serves Up Call to Political Action] Reference

Sometimes, he can be a tad glib, tossing off licks and crowd-pleasing quotes from other songs instead of true improvisations.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old Bebopper Comes Home] Reference

In August, Mayor Bloomberg released his crowd-pleasing plan to "reform mass transit" as part of his third-term election push.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Petro: Does Bloomberg Really Want to Save Mass Transit?] Reference

He preached the gospel of Iowa's deep faith in education, a crowd-pleasing theme in the home of an Iowa State faculty member.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Soldier] Reference

But I'd argue that, aside from some crowd-pleasing passages for the Labour faithful, his speech yesterday was remarkably thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [On this morning’s evidence, Brown’s fightback is already over] Reference

Mann's integrity, his abhorrence of crowd-pleasing Hollywood tactics, is admirable, but he keeps the audience at arm's length.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Split Decision] Reference

"Clones is a delightfully rousing, eye-popping, crowd-pleasing homage to Saturday-morning serials of the '30s and' 40s," he wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off the Record] Reference

Her floor exercise -- to the crowd-pleasing music of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- is a delightful mix of the sprightly and the powerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [CARLY & CO.] Reference

Here's a verbal Rorschach test: when you hear the term "crowd-pleasing" attached to a movie, does it seem a recommendation or a dis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing To The Crowd] Reference

A trumpeter squared his shoulders, issued short rhythmic bursts based on one note, and then built a crowd-pleasing yet complex solo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Families That Play Together . . .] Reference

"But I learned early on that my path would not be through intelligentsia-stamped festivals, but entertaining, crowd-pleasing movies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crowd Pleaser] Reference

None of Hague's questions really connected, which left Harman able to bat them away with dull generalisations or Labour crowd-pleasing quips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference