257 Verbs to Use for the Word audience

She was a big, stout, rather red-faced woman, didn't make much effect in a carriage in ordinary street dress, but in her palace, when she received or gave an audience, she was a very royal lady.

Hence the evangelist of to-day is more than a man who can popularly address a public audience, and by tales and tears arouse a weeping commotion.

He, the Prince, must see Lord Vernon at any cost; he must demand an audience; he must appeal to his patriotism, his sense of honour, the love of fair play which every Englishman possesses; he must make refusal impossible He paused and looked up, conscious of a sudden commotion on the beach just ahead of him.

Since the princess was yielded to the Tartars, we have not held an audience.

The same; and I there obtained an audience of the monarch.

"I tell you what, my man," responded Alexander, feeling it very necessary to assert his dignity while any of it remained, "you are not to imagine that, because I have humoured you so far as to grant you an audience at an unusual place and time, I am going to stand any amount of your nonsense and impertinence.

The stimulus of facing an appreciative audience would spur him on time after time, and then, late at night, he would write affectionate letters giving details of "the house," etc., but which are painful to see if one notices the constant droop of the words and of the lines across the page.

From want of a clear recognition of this meaning, many a serious writer has been made bitter by the reflection that shallow, feeble works have found large audiences, whereas his own work has not paid the printing expenses.

You afterwards disregard the fact that you are liable to a long term of imprisonment yourself, and actually have the audacity to seek audience of me and make all sorts of hints and suggestions that I have held the woman a prisoner for my own ends!" "Not only do I repeat that, Baron Oberg," I said quickly.

None of the German dramas and operas which the seventeenth century produced, though they never failed to draw large audiences, could be compared, in poetical value, to Marlowe's tragedy.

The Epilogue (spoken by Jevon) to Mountfort's The Injured Lovers (1688), where the actor tells the audience they must be kind to the poet: Else to stand by him, every man has swore.

The exit of the scene would leave a modern audience quite in doubt as to what happened, unless the action were much clearer than the words.

Many distinguished speakers have entertained large and enthusiastic audiences from the platform of this popular hall.

But you had a purpose in asking this audience.

But a moment afterwards, as if she could not help herself, she was singing a Tuscan love-song with a subdued passion which thrilled even the blasé audience clustered round her.

most of them gentlemen who seldom appear but as the hero's friend in a farce,for a minute or two,and here they all had their ten-minute speeches, and one of them gave the audience a serious account how he was now a lawyer, but had been a poet; and then a long enumeration of the inconveniences of authorship, rascally booksellers, reviewers, etc.; which first set the audience a-gaping.

Very justly they believe that if one wants to persuade an audience to a course of action, he must interest his audience sufficiently to hold their attention.

The Government does not know the people, except as an actor knows the audience; and therefore does not trust the people.

Little that makes life noble and solemn is reflected in the Art of our day; to amuse a languid audience seems its highest aim.

He waits until the sun is up, and when most of the early performers have become silent, as if determined to secure a good audience before exhibiting his powers.

Here doth the Friar leave with grievance; Robin is dead, that graced his entrance, And being dead, he craves his audience With this short play they would have patience.

A book relating your adventures, and describing the world you have left, would bring you in a very comfortable fortune; and you might more than double this by giving addresses in each of our towns, which, if only from the curiosity our people would entertain to see you with their own eyes, would attract crowded audiences.

In his speeches to the citizens of Aix and Marseillesfor he canvassed both townshe inveighed against Necker and the Government with an eloquence which electrified his audience, who had never before been addressed in the language of independence.

When breath failed, he staggered, gasping, and swept his audience with the glazed, unmeaning stare of drink or lunacy.

His originality of style, too, pleased the audiences of working people whom he addressed.

257 Verbs to Use for the Word  audience