Sentences with phrase «gasps from»

The 15 seconds I had heard hadn't impressed just me, either; gasps from fellow audience members let me know that everyone else in the room was digging it too — big time.

No gasps from the black - tied crowd, no whispers of shock at the tables full of in - house counsel.

Eliciting gasps from the business community, the Federal Court sided with the Canada Revenue Agency.

But the finding that drew the most gasps from the audience was that lawyers on average bill only 2.24 hours in an eight - hour day and that solos on average are billing just 1.6 hours and collecting 1.4.

Unsurprisingly this statement drew audible gasps from the usually composed Barbican audience.

There were said to be audible gasps from the crowd when Jean - Michel Basquiat's 1982 painting joined the $ 100Million plus club in May.

It climbed to $ 7.6 million, $ 7.7 million, and $ 7.8 million at a pace, then $ 8 million, going from there to $ 8.5 million when a telephone bidder pushed it to $ 9 million, competing with a lady in the room and earning gasps from the audience.

By trying not to be the last console released, Nintendo ended up giving it a very rushed feeling and while the other contenders are still pushing their boundaries and creating excited gasps from fans, the Wii seems to have hit a brick wall.

Platinum Games, makers of Bayonetta, Mad World, and The Wonderful 101, have teamed up with Activision to make a Generation 1 Transformers game that caused audible gasps from the fellow nerds I showed the game to....

The real star of the show, as has become usual for Amazon, was the prices of these new gadgets, revealed to audible gasps from the crowd in attendance according to The Verge.

It praised the set, a «vast unchanging gothic arched hallway», which served as locations such as King's Cross Station, Hogwarts and the Ministry of magic, as well as the plot twists which caused «pantomime gasps from the audience».

The exchange prompted gasps from some watching the confirmation.

True, there are some gasps from time to time, but truth be told, those scenes were predicated on the audience's not knowing that something might happen when a camera pans slowly around a room or focuses tightly on our heroine's face.

Ron and Hermione provide some great moments, and Dobby the house elf (here in quite convincing CGI) provides a few laughs as he beats himself with whatever hard object is handy (and elicits a few gasps from the audience when he shows off his bandaged hands, which he attributes to ironing himself as atonement for an action he committed).

Footage that has never been seen by the public, featured him hanging / riding outside an airplane in flight that drew gasps from everyone in the audience.

This year's ceremony is hosted by Seth Meyers whose opening monologue directly addressed the sexual harassment scandal to have rocked Hollywood in recent months, dishing out a joke about Harvey Weinstein which drew gasps from the audience - you can find a compilation of his best jokes here.

But now, «it's not gonna say «Project Runway,» it's going to say «XXL Unmarked Grave,»» Mulaney joked, eliciting laughs and gasps from the crowd.

Browne's videos elicited gasps from the audience, who is now rethinking when the through - gut first evolved — and whether it may have emerged more than once.

To gasps from the Labour benches, the chancellor announced «tough but fair» reforms that will lead to extra changes for housing benefit and on the rules for the mobility and care arrangements for disability living allowance.

At this there are audible gasps from the crowd.

And on the role of money in politics: «We can not allow Elise Stefanik to buy this election as she bought the last one,» Derrick said to audible gasps from the crowd.

A first consultation drew gasps from among the tax industry as it suggested penalties would be applied to any bank or adviser whose client was successfully challenged under, among other things, a targeted anti-avoidance rule.

, Miliband began his answer, «No, I don't,» to gasps from members of the audience.

If a new student comes to class and asks me how old I am, you can hear the gasps from the other students.

For our family, this is the perfect theme — it's a lot more affordable than the big D, it's full of Lego bricks, and there's an abundance of Star Wars paraphernalia - the new Star Wars Miniland induced loud gasps from the 7 year old.

There was a time when a bad call, a muffed pop - up or a sharp grounder played off the skull drew nothing but polite gasps from the fans.

There were cheers and gasps from the crowd as it became clear that the President was opposed to all actions that would be detrimental to the liberty and welfare of the entire Union.

The testimony resulted in a dramatic scene during the meeting, eliciting gasps from those in attendance.

«But though by the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions,» he writes, «though they would have been glad to stop, some incomprehensible, mysterious power still went on governing them, and the artillery men, covered with powder and blood, reduced to one in three, though stumbling and gasping from fatigue, kept bringing charges, loaded, aimed, applied the slow match; and the cannonballs, with the same speed and cruelty, flew from both sides and crushed human bodies flat, and the terrible thing continued to be accomplished, which was accomplished not by the will of men, but by the will of Him who governs people and worlds.»

Then, as a half - ton of fighting bull charged into the ring like an assassin's bullet and eagerly zeroed in on the man standing alone with only a cape to defend himself, every gasp from the 25,000 watching seemed to rattle off Tomás» soul like a wind chime.

Behind the sticks when he saves a goal line last gasp from none other than his old teammate Costa..

You start focusing on things like car seats, sleep training, not asking for Christmas presents because you would rather people would buy the baby stuff, spending $ 30 on me or saving it for a co-pay that you might or might not need, wandering childrens» clothing / toy sections in stores & gasping from sheer excitement when you find a pair of baby Sperry's on sale, and lots of other stuff you didn't give a crud about two years ago.

It is a bizarre feature of the AV referendum that it was actually proposed by neither of the parties who won the 2010 election, and who now form the government, but emerged as a last gasp from the bunker of the man who lost.

Sausage Party is filled with so many WTF moments and jokes that the movie had my audience laughing and gasping from beginning to end.

Towards the end of Michael Haneke's Caché (Hidden, 2005), there is a calamitous event, a moment so terrible and unexpected that it elicits a collective gasp from the audience.

There are moments in the movie where I was gasping from laughter, and I loved the audacity the film uses to body slam its audience.

Producing a noticeable gasp from the females in my screening audience after removing his shirt, this vine swinger seems poised to keep romance and action seeking movies goers happy.

Alderman Pawar shared that current estimates of unallocated TIF surplus range from $ 300 - 400 million, which elicited an audible gasp from the crowd.

On first sight, when Porsche CEO Matthias Müller sat down to open the roof, the collective gasp from the audience could be heard several stands away.

When the second - gen ’94 Ram 1500 was unveiled there was a collective gasp from the truck community.

The mediocre Galaxy Tab 4 Nook is a last - ditch, dying gasp from two giant corporations that should know better.

gasp from those unable to see how much their data no longer speaks to reality.

The deck is on slideshare and the full presentation is here, if you'd like to see how to raise a gasp from a room of «social media specialists `.

Nothing more than the last desperate gasp from a dying industrial farming system frantically trying to justify itself.

The approach is cinematically effective; the pink rig juxtaposed with the reference to the cancer registry data is sure to elicit a gasp from industry cynics.

When Samuelson introduced the beta tool, there was an audible gasp from the hundreds Realtors attending his presentation, «Real Estate, Pop Culture and Relevancy: Trends and Predictions.»

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From another, it appeared like the last gasp of an increasingly irrelevant regulator trying to flex its dwindling muscle.

One of his shocking points about how Patagonia, an Inc. 500 alumnus, differentiates its products from others in the outdoor apparel industry by their exclusive use of 100 % organic cotton elicited gasps.

Since he took over as worldwide managing director in July, he's launched a dozen internal initiatives, ranging from cost - cutting measures (at a firm notorious for not taking its own efficiency medicine) to a new focus on marketing (a word that, by Barton's own account, draws gasps of horror at McKinsey).

Some Brits gasped recently upon learning Queen Elizabeth II's income will rise 5 % next year — to # 37.9 million from # 36.1 million — at a time when the national economy is suffering.