21.   He never once mentioned the scandal and left his audience marveling at his resilience.

22.   He has forgotten that it is always wise to leave the audience wanting more.

23.   He would leave audiences with the impression he really understood them.

24.   Her early plays, produced in small theaters, were bizarre absurdist affairs that left their audiences puzzled.

25.   His jokes have a tendency to miss their mark, leaving his audiences tittering rather than guffawing.

26.   His show Tuesday morning was the last major one of the fall season here, and it left the audience feeling the master was in control.

27.   If Clark wanted to leave his audience wrapped up in a cocoon of hopelessness, he succeeded.

28.   In a medium so driven by language, the lack of a verbal acuity to match visual stylishness can leave audiences feeling a bit empty.

29.   It helps to get the moviemaker to the next scene, but it leaves the audience with its feet suspended in midair.

30.   It deserves to be, but its ambiguities may leave audiences with a hollow sense of loss.