crowd-pleaser


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crowd-pleaser

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crowd pleaser

n
someone or something that is very popular with an audience or spectators at an event
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Crowd-pleaser David Troughton plays Falstaff in a fat suit intended for laughs.
MARCUS WILLIS will return to Wimbledon "leaner" but the same crowd-pleaser after getting a qualifying wild card yesterday.
Critical appreciation should help this intelligent crowd-pleaser graduate into niche arthouse and broadcast markets offshore.
At parties at our headquarters, it's a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. The secret so it's easy on the cooks?
ROGER Federer struggled but survived to make the fourth round of the French Open and will face Latvian crowd-pleaser Ernests Gulbis next.
Other newlyannounced names include former world No.1 Lleyton Hewitt and crowd-pleaser Ernests Gulbis, who has made big strides this year.
With beautiful rear lights having the L shape of the Lexus motif and lovely alloys, it is a real crowd-pleaser.
Now adapted for the screen by Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things, The Queen), Philomena is an engrossing if sentimental crowd-pleaser starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench in the leading roles.
Crowd-pleaser Safecracker got an early airing, Prisons merged into My Sweet Lord and little-known Astronomy was a standout.
RE-RELEASED with restored picture and sound, this artful crowd-pleaser continues to reach out to every generation, thanks to a magnificent performance from Julie Andrews.
Their own support show seemed jam-packed with crowd-pleaser after crowd-pleaser.