He is primed for the performance, playing to the crowd.
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It was crowd-pleasing, but also clearly playing to the crowd.
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Trump's in Pennsylvania playing to the crowd while Florida gets its ass kicked.
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In calling for a return to waterboarding, Mr. Trump was playing to the crowd.
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"It's always at his rallies, and he's always pandering and playing to the crowd," she said.
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It's not just playing to the crowd, it's spoon-feeding the audience their own spit-up.
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On first blush you might think that Mann is merely playing to the crowd, but not so.
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At the time, his comments seemed to reflect either the restlessness of the obsessive or a man generously playing to the crowd.
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" But, Mr. Panero added, "I think the rewards of playing to the crowd, of throwing out red meat, have become too great.
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Reprinted with permission from Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy Baym, published by NYU Press.
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Without verbal interruptions and the candidates playing to the crowd they see, the debate became the kind of serious exchange the voters need.
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Forceful without playing to the crowd, she truly stood out when he tried to put her on the defensive regarding his love of beer.
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"When he goes to a rally like that, you know, there's a level of embellishment there because he's playing to the crowd," he said.
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Playing to the crowd of thousands gathered to cheer him on, the president pretended to be Dr. Blasey testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday.
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" Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a former aide to Pete Wilson, a Republican governor, said that he thought Democrats were "playing to the crowd.
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"I caught him saying something crazy on Fox a week or so back but figured he was playing to the crowd," said Philippe Reines, a longtime adviser to Mrs. Clinton.
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The Huskies won in style, by playing fast, free, and together; they were a family affair that stayed defiantly local; and for all their playing to the crowd, they didn't preen.
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Bolt put on a good show before the final, too, joking with the mascot in the corridor leading to the track and playing to the crowd once he emerged from the tunnel.
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"So you may as well be giving your live recordings away," says Nancy Baym, a Microsoft researcher and author of the new book Playing To the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection.
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There was an eruption of cheers, and he began playing to the crowd, lifting his arms and flexing, smiling at the flashing lights; he was entirely one with them now, I thought, all his sanctity was gone.
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After Arie tosses one sassy barb his ex's way — explaining their "cold" breakup was "warranted" considering her behind-the-scenes behavior — and everyone claps, it becomes pretty obvious his following mean comments are actually the Bachelor playing to the crowd.
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" If nothing else, playing to the crowd leads to punchier jokes—as in one episode where Elena is complaining about micro-aggressions and her mom snaps back, "If I got bent out of shape at every dumb thing a man says, you wouldn't be here.
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Street, John, Seth Hague, and Heather Savigny. 2008. "Playing to the Crowd: The Role of Music and Musicians in Political Participation." British Journal of Politics & International Relations 10, no. 2: 269–285.
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On the morning of 21 January 1642, Roe together with fellow priest Thomas Reynolds was drawn on hurdles from Newgate Prison to the place of execution. At Tyburn, Roe preached in a jovial fashion to the crowd about the meaning of his death. He was still playing to the crowd, holding up the proceedings by asking the Sheriff whether he could save his life by turning Protestant. The Sheriff agreed.
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In baseball, a player who shows off or showboats to win the favor of the fans (in the grandstand) is said to be grandstanding. In other contexts, including politics, playing to the crowd, the audience, or the media might be described as grandstanding. > "Tellem weighed in with a thoughtful back-page article in this Sunday's New > York Times regarding the recent Congressional and mainstream media > grandstanding over steroids". — Jay Jaffe, Futility Infielder, 5 April > 2005.
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Following the clash with Jones, the journalist John Gibson noted Gascoigne playing to the crowd. At the end of the talk-in, Gascoigne, in reference to the Jones incident, hijacked a nearby piano and belted out the tune Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis. He was named as the PFA Young Player of the Year and listed on the PFA Team of the Year in the 1987–88 season. Gascoigne's period at Newcastle coincided with a period of unrest and instability at the club.
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Pinkethman overcame a weakness for overacting and playing to the crowd to become a steady performer. He is first heard of at the Theatre Royal, in 1692, in Thomas Shadwell's The Volunteers, in which he played Stitchum the tailor, an original part of six lines.He was then the original Porter in Thomas Southerne's Maid's Last Prayer, and in 1694, in Edward Ravenscroft's Canterbury Guests, or a Bargain Broken, he played Second Innkeeper and Jack Sawce. After the departure in 1695 of Thomas Betterton and his associates, Pinkethman was promoted to a better line of parts.In 1696, he played Jaques in the Third Part of Don Quixote, by D'Urfey; Dr. Pulse in Delarivier Manley's Lost Lover; Palæmon in Pausanias (Norton or Southerne); Sir Merlin Marteen in Afra Behn's Younger Brother, or the Amorous Jill; Nic Froth, an innkeeper, in The Cornish Comedy (George Powell); and Castillio, jun.
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Later that year, Chama left for West Germany on a coaching stint for one year three months and when he returned, was named Buffaloes coach in early 1978 and won the Heroes & Unity Cup in his first season. In an interview in September of that year, Chama identified losing composure while under pressure and playing to the crowd as some of the weaknesses of Zambian football and that he would not agree to coach the national team in view of the many Zambian coaches who had been let down by the FAZ administration, but would consider doing so on a very temporary basis.Sikazwe, Sam "Chama takes a look at local soccer" Times of Zambia, 7 September 1978, p.12 He served as assistant national team coach to Brian Tiler and when Tiler left at the end of his two-year contract in December 1979, Chama succeeded him as Zambian coach.
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