29 Metaphors for audiences

An audience is not a simple addition of the individuals that compose it.

The audience must indeed have been qualmish prudes.

" To De Catinat an audience with the monarch was a common incident of his duties, but it was with profound astonishment that he learned from Bontems that his friend and companion was included in the order.

" The audience gasped at thatfor in the Premier's own riding, there were names on the voters' lists, taken, it was alleged, from the tombstones.

Had his audience been his judges, he had undoubtedly been acquitted; but Mr. Page, who was then upon the bench, treated him with the most brutal severity, and in summing up the evidence endeavoured to exasperate the jury against him, and misrepresent his defence.

I keened in that moment what they'd all meant when they'd tauld me a London audience was different frae

His dress that night before a New York audience was the most unbecoming that a fiend's ingenuity could have devised for a tall, gaunt mana black frock coat, ill-setting and too short for him in the body, skirt, and armsa rolling collar, low-down, disclosing his long thin, shrivelled throat uncovered and exposed.

The audience was one vast chuckle.

That audience of the scholarly classes was a wonderful tribute to a remarkable man, and one for which.

The illusion is perfect, and the audience is enchantedthat ride through the velvet night, so still, so quaint, so roguish in its way, and the flash far below, that has flung some unsuspecting citizen on the cobblestones like a bundle of old rags.

The popular audience was a jury from which there was no appeal on this question of fact.

American audiences are the friendliest in the world, and the most liberal wi' applause ye could want to find.

What an eager, delightful audience are these little ones, grieving at the sorrows of the heroes, laughing at their happy successes, breathless with anxiety lest the cat catch the disobedient mouse, clapping hands when the Ugly Duckling is changed into the Swan,all appreciation, all interest, all joy!

His audience are oftentimes judicious, but his chief admirers are commonly young wanton chambermaids, who are so taken with his posture and gay clothes, they never come to be their own women after.

The audience that day, besides Mr. Digges and Mrs. Sarah Ward, were the Right Hon.

My audiences were comin' to know me, and to depend on me.

Her audience was her husband.

As the hour interfered with the dinner-hour of the Colleges, most men preferred a warm dinner without Newman's sermon to a cold one with it; so the audience was not crowdedthe large church little more than half filled.

Do you enjoy the career on which you have entered?" "I should enjoy it if the audience were all my personal friends," answered she.

His audiences were not Mr. Mudie's subscribers, but men and women earning weekly wages.

And, of course, a great audience that has paid extravagantly for its pleasure is a wild beast, that will purr if she compels it, snarl at her if she doesn't manage to.

That was firther south than I'd been yet; the audiences were English to the backbone wi' no Scots to speak of amang them.

In this scene allusion is frequently made to events supposed to have occurred in the interval of the Acts, and the audience is the better prepared to take up the thread of the story, which is then skilfully carried on to the concluding scene.

The audience was a splendid onediscriminating and appreciative.

The parents, brothers, and sisters of the servants dropped in till the audience was about thirty or forty.

29 Metaphors for  audiences