Sentences with phrase «hostile audiences»

«This is really trying to use psychology to understand why hostile audiences do what they do, and to use this methodology to deconstruct that behavior and then use communication to try and change attitudes and ultimately behavior,» Nix says.

I have frequently taken on hostile audiences and interviewers but Quiggin seems afraid to do so.

He does a lot of outreach about climate change and takes special delight in engaging hostile audiences.

The Bard said, «All the world's a stage,» but if you want to face the slings and arrows of hostile audiences, get thee to a school.

In addressing hostile audiences to Christianity, I would suggest the format:

«Pope Benedict to Encounter Hostile Audience in U.K. Visit,» reported the Religion News Service.

And he may well be forced to take ever new and violent means to get his vision across to a hostile audience.

We are, for the time being, «without even a hostile audience,» and so the soul must endure «a silence that is neither for nor against our faith,» in a time that is too busy to persecute us.

It is your choice as to whether you want to try and debate with a, mostly, hostile audience.

«Volume One: Great Moments of Track and Field» includes Jesse Owens» victories before a hostile audience in Berlin (1936); Wilma Rudolph's triumphs in Rome (1960), in spite of her childhood battle with polio; and Bruce Jenner's record - breaking decathlon performance in Montreal (1976).

We knew MANA was collecting data, but Missy Cheney kept refusing to release it, citing various «privacy» and «peer review» issues and claiming that we OBs were a hostile audience who only wanted to hurt midwives and avoid competition.

Thank you, Mike and Camille, for bravely speaking to a hostile audience of over 2000.

After the press conference, he attended a mayoral candidates forum hosted by the Gay Men's Health Crisis, winning over a hostile audience.

The implication that this might result in reduced subsidies for the various «studies» of race, class, gender, and related nonsense, was obviously not lost on his hostile audience.

Witnessed through the shifting perspectives of the dancer (the remarkably theatric Émilie Cozette) and her ever more repulsive and hostile audience, the ballerina's derangement reminds one of a desperate Mia Farrow surrounded by equal parts evil and camp in Rosemary's Baby.

Precise communication, particularly when it is intended to impart views not currently in vogue, and particularly to a potentially hostile audience, can be horribly difficult.

You do it by stress testing your argument in front of a hostile audience until you get the answers right.

For the first time, the largely hostile audience (for most of those who attended were environmentalists) realized that the mere fact of a consensus does not in any way inform us of whether the assertion about which there is said to be a consensus is true.

He is at his best when confronted by a hostile audience.

Sounds more like he was trying to make a point to a hostile audience.

My presentation at Aspen American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) summit on Sunday August 22, 2010 at 5:30 was met by a rude moderator and hostile audience.

«Private communications picked over by a hostile audience can make a saint look like a sinner, and so while there might be some karmic justice to that, I would not wish it on my worst enemy»

Or should Congress, like other speakers, rely upon the marketplace — including presidential resolutions — to counter any purported ill effects from its expression, and speak boldly even in the face of likely hostile audience reactions?

This article was published in the February 2018 issue of the ABA Journal with the title «A Fireside Chat with George Campbell: Advice from an enlightened Scot about eloquence, analogies and how to handle a hostile audience.»

It's like being on stage in front of a hostile audience who may boo or throw tomatoes at any moment.

Not exact matches

Snooki only did two gymnastic moves but that was enough to win the match and actually garner some cheers from the hostile WrestleMania audience.

Google will flag your site as user - hostile to a mobile audience if you're using interstitials.

The final quality required for authentic dialogue is prudence: the prudence of a teacher who is most careful to make allowances for the psychological and moral circumstances of his hearer [Mt 6:7], particularly if he is a child, unprepared, suspicious or hostile... [who] is always at pains to learn the sensitivities of his audience, and... [who] adapts himself... to the susceptibilities and the degree of intelligence of his hearers.

You can not judge your value as a person before God or as a shepherd by your performance in the pulpit, particularly one performance reviewd by a biased audience on the ride home from the service or a member who was hostile to you when they arrived at the service.

Congressman John Faso faced a skeptical, and at times hostile, audience on Monday, May 8 when he defended his vote for the American Health Care Act at a forum at the Kingston Library.

Chamber rules of engagement discourage rude behavior, though the occasional hostile question from plants in the audience can throw candidates off message.

By now they have recruited a black partner, Tommy Johnson (Chris Thomas King), and later when the song becomes a hit, they're called on to perform before an audience that is hostile to blacks in particular and escaped convicts in general.

THE EVIL WITHIN - Outsider art par excellence that would become the new The Room were it not so openly hostile towards its characters and its audience.

This brutal genre flick isn't going to sit easily with some audiences, but Hostiles offers a contemplative, if imperfect, Hollywood acknowledgment of the mass bloodshed of Indigenous persons on the frontier.

«Hostiles» is a western that gives the audience three stories to follow.

At once, the audience is Chris: a black man in a hostile white world.

Some of these launched at prestige fall film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad reviews or audience reaction, or both.

End with the surprise appearance of football - playing abominable snowmen — so aggressively dada as to play as openly hostile towards its audience.

Sundance has plenty of dramedies, but audiences can sometimes turn downright hostile when faced with a broader comedy like The Bronze.

These results represent an absolute f *** ing disaster and he's trying to spin it to a fantastically hostile and well informed audience.

What's more, being an «indie» — if that even means anything anymore — and publishing on community - driven digital platforms can put you directly in the crosshairs of an increasingly - hostile online audience.

SH Because when I think of performance and installation art from the past 20, 30 years, I think of work that is much more hostile towards the audience — Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci — the desire to push the audience to an extreme.

Here was a man who looked to be in the grip of a palpable sense of paranoia, his eyes rolling and haunted as he addressed the Turner Prize audience that clearly felt, like him, that it was trapped in a bunker surrounded by hostile forces.

The performance is fraught with the dancer's stage fright and the indifferent and hostile reactions that escalate in the audience.

After all, this is merely an opinion forum, and stupid or even hostile comments will reveal themselves as such to the greater audience.

This seems to work too: when I explain this to public audiences, even at a hostile venue like Heartland or the staff of a coal - state Congressman, people seem to respond well to this approach.

I also don't think the Mann cartoon was deliberately hostile, but I'm not sure you anticipated how it comes across either to audiences not at the conference or those present who are concerned about polarization.

While snatching politically sensitive documents as part of an espionage plot might be part of statecraft and intelligence efforts (rightly or wrongly), Motherboard's Rid points out that leaking those documents (and potentially manipulated ones) to a global audience represents an unprecedented and dangerous attempt by a foreign government that is openly hostile to U.S. policies and interests.