1.   Better to leave your audience wailing in the dark, shaking their fists, some crying How?, others why?

2.   Gore masterfully played off his public image as a stiff, wooden personality who leaves audiences sitting on their hands.

3.   His legendary tardiness left audiences waiting for hours.

4.   But even now Cheers has left its audience wanting more.

5.   As for the meager turnout, it seems Ronstadt may be too eclectic for her own good, leaving audiences puzzled as to her direction.

6.   As no Kate Moss or Emma has ever done, she left the audience to applaud and rethink its expectations.

7.   As for content, Elliott leaves the audience in the lurch by blatantly rejecting narrative cohesiveness and credibility.

8.   At the Astor Plaza Theater in Manhattan, he said, the air-conditioning broke down and left the audience in a disgruntled mood.

9.   Basically, the film offers a series of moody, surrealistic tableaux, leaving audiences to draw their own conclusions.

10.   Both are unflinching, pessimistic looks at gender skirmishes, pitch-dark comedies designed to leave an audience unsettled.