Milo Yiannopoulos

Back before our civilization despised itself, we applauded tough men. But you can't produce tough men - or honorable women - without tough love. If you want to keep civilization, you better start by insisting that boys grow up, instead of trying to infantilize them so they're afraid to stop sucking their thumbs.

British Activist

Vincent Tan

You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.

Malaysian Businessman

Tom Lehrer

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.

American Musician

Louise Penny

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

Canadian Author

Eniola Aluko

You are going to fail in sport, you are going to win sometimes, you are going to be criticised sometimes, you are going to be applauded - so it gives you... well, it's certainly given me anyway, those real-life lessons that make you bulletproof.

English Athlete

Stephanie Labbe

Once the trophy has been lifted, and the fans have all stopped applauding - there's the potential for a player to feel their lowest. It is at this point when we need the support the most, when we're simply human beings.

Canadian Footballer

Sarfaraz Ahmed

People acknowledge you and applaud and it makes you more passionate about the game. It gives you proper recognition and if you perform well its increases your respect by a huge margin.

Pakistani Cricketer

Vicente Fox

Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

Mexican Statesman

Ernest Istook

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

American Politician

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

I don't want my kids to be raised thinking they'll get into a park and people applaud.

Canadian First Lady

Used when an audience collectively shows approval, usually at a live performance or event.

Audience Reaction

Applause that starts strong and fades as the event proceeds or concludes.

Gradual Silence

It can also encourage a performer or speaker to know their work is appreciated.

Encouragement

Applaud is often used metaphorically to describe verbal praise, not actual clapping.

Metaphoric Sense

Acknowledges someone's hard work or achievement, often in a formal setting.

Acknowledgment

Sincere applause is heartfelt, while insincere praise can be detected and may offend.

Sincerity Matters

 And I think you want to have all of your decisions taken by science, understanding that they're not the best science. So, citizens need to applaud, even if it's a tough decision that politicians take for the good based upon science, that's a good thing. The second thing that really would be helpful

The quest for the...

 You're going to fail miserably. You're going to get stuck. And we would practice staying creative inside that stuck place. For example, we had an exercise where we all stood in a circle, and each person had to do the world's worst tap dance, and everybody else applauded and cheered you on,

Uri Alon: Why truly...

 And so with our overhelp, our overprotection and overdirection and hand-holding, we deprive our kids of the chance to build self-efficacy, which is a really fundamental tenet of the human psyche, far more important than that self-esteem they get every time we applaud.

How to Raise Successful...

 A plant-rich diet is not a vegan or a vegetarian diet, though I applaud any who make those choices. It's a healthy diet in terms of how much we consume, and particularly how much meat is consumed. In the richer parts of the world, we overconsume.

100 solutions to reverse...

 Our disdain for drugs and drug users goes very deep. We are bombarded with images and media stories about the horrible impacts of drugs. We have stigmatized entire communities. We applaud military-inspired operations that bring down drug dealers.

The harm reduction model...

 why we need to say the following we need to stop applauding our politicians for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ineffective green policies instead what we do need to do is to spend and encourage them to dramatically ramp up

Economics of climate...

 Which presentation have you applauded the most this morning? Local, passionate people. That's who you have applauded. So what I'm saying is that entrepreneurship is where it's at. We are at the end of the first industrial revolution --

Ernesto Sirolli: Want to...

 people applaud in delight and then in the most magnificent gesture I send the bird of peace into the azure but the bird instead of flying ago because flop flop flop and and on my head and people

The journey across the...

 so as I've said if it is not plunk mmm some of the viewers I think this is pretty scrubs that's what I thought also because I didn't see any anything like clunk because we can tell applaud for

Safari Live - Day 337 PIPE...

 This is India, and of course it's all the more striking because it was four years later that we all applauded the U.S., the oldest democracy in the modern world,

Applaud

Audience Reaction

Gradual Silence

Encouragement

Compare with

Never forget "Applaud"

WordUp Chrome Extension