Oscar faced the American Philistine public without his accustomed "claque", and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions]
One can always tell a claque, they react too soon. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
The conservative claque is ranting about socialism. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Borosage: Will Everyone Grab a Bucket? This Thing is Sinking] Reference
But of course the claque kept on; they had been paid to. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
This could catch on: a claque that gets to skip the show. From Wordnik.com. [Her Brilliant Career] Reference
We will send out our claque to make the same pronouncements. From Wordnik.com. [The Soulforge]
My claque thought I wuz robbed, but I agreed with the judges. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Now he opines on the BBC, playing to the BNP claque in the Gods. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-22] Reference
H - There's a claque that makes use of Lancastrian patronisation of vice. From Wordnik.com. [Perverted By Language] Reference
He revived the institution of the claque as a tool in literary disagreements. From Wordnik.com. [I'd Like to Read a Book Again. Preferably Fiction. About The Third Wave of Modernism.] Reference
This claque of politicians is guilty of the serious crime of flagrant opportunism. From Wordnik.com. [False Friends] Reference
All women, on pain of excommunication from the feminist claque, must now support Hillary. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary And Obama Exchange Another Volley Of Pennsylvania Ads] Reference
On the web you best build an audience by organising a claque and stroking its prejudices. From Wordnik.com. [Dennis Whittle: Settle Down, Boys] Reference
The rhythmic chant had every sign of being started by a claque to impress the larger crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
Newsom had a loud cheering claque, brought onto the floor for the purpose, at the very front. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Obama's California: Angst and Irony for Winning Democrats] Reference
You have written something, it seems, and they have got up a famous claque for the second performance. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
Why would we need such a systematic undertaking for one independent agent and maybe a claque of followers?. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Embraces Nuremberg-Type International Trial For Bin Laden] Reference
What Ms Phillips and, it appears, most of her claque rail against in the dread MSM is in reality a straw man. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Is there anything in the world so disgusting as to feel one's self patronized, made capital of, enrolled in a claque?. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
In the new Washington run by liberal Democrats, much of the media is likely to become a liberal claque -- or already has. From Wordnik.com. [We Could Be In for a Lurch to the Left] Reference
This major shift in tactics has mirrored the smaller scale shifts that have been used in the media by the denialist claque. From Wordnik.com. [David Horton: Time of the preacher] Reference
No. They would be astonished and dismayed at the timid claque of propagandists peddling hysterical fantasies about The Other. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Nolan: The GOP Platform: No Muslims, No Mexicans] Reference
Philistine public without his accustomed claque, and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
In the rear rows, a claque started a steady handclapping, and cat-calls and hisses from unmannerly boys became more and more frequent. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
This is triumphal anti-intellectualism: no doubt it delights Posner's conservative claque, but it is unworthy of a United States judge. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy & Monica Lewinsky] Reference
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