Sentences with phrase «n't speak to the audience»

If content doesn't speak to the audience, or answer their burning questions or top requirements — it isn't going to get read.

Not exact matches

Since my company often doesn't have the budget to pay for expensive conferences, I come up with creative speaking proposals and try to use that as a way to get into the conference and get in front of an influential audience.

When it comes to slide presentations, if you use a slide with text on it, the audience can either read what's on the screen or listen to you speak, but not both at the same time.

There's been a push to offer bilingual packaging and signs in the United States, but with such a large segment of the population not speaking English as a primary language, the audience certainly deserves more tailored attention.

He told the audience at the start of his speech how he was sitting on a plane in Toronto waiting to take off for Vancouver when his BlackBerry buzzed with an email from his staff, saying the prime minister wanted to speak to him, but not giving a reason why.

Wang said he was speaking from a «business perspective» in encouraging films that appeal to Chinese audiences, not a political one.

Speaking on a panel at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, Cuban told audience members he «wouldn't say never» when it comes to a potential White House bid, CNBC reports.

If you don't get the audience's attention in the first few seconds, you might as well be speaking to an empty room.

While Cameron has ordered the blue - and - white Scottish flag to be flown over his office at No. 10 Downing Street until the vote, his critics noted that he did not risk speaking before an uninvited audience of Scots on the street.

Your content strategy shouldn't just promote your product, it should speak directly to your niche audience and address the problems they want to solve.

And although Parker wouldn't speak specifically to Kik's future plans, he says Spark hopes all its firms end up as «independent, publicly traded companies that are sustainable, profitable, have a global audience and reach, and are employing thousands of people around the world.»

If you don't know how to speak to your target audience, partner with someone who does.

If you're a math tutoring company and have discovered in your audience research that one of your persona's biggest challenges is finding interesting ways to study, but you don't have any content that speaks to that concern, then you might look to create some.

That movie, for all it's exhilarating presentation of youthful life on the road as you experience those who make music which can speak to large audiences, is nonetheless all about how you ought to get sucked into the rock «n roll way of life (albeit eschewing the drugs and sex part of it) because somehow rock «n roll is supposedly important.

Each member of the audience is called upon to become an actor, an actor however who speaks not loudly, but «in silence speaks in himself, with himself, to himself.»

Come on, HE was speaking to a Jewish audience, commanded HIS disciples not go to Gentiles, talking about things pertaining to Jewish laws.

Granted Jesus never spoke out specifically about homosexuality but He didn't really need to given His audience.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.&raquto a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.&raquTo base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

Narrative ministry, so to speak, finds no more receptive audience than a group of young people, particularly a group of high - powered, pressured children and adolescents who have not frequently experienced the joy and luxury of having stories told to them.

Humanity Made for Christ When speaking to modern audiences, especially young adults, about what distinguishes us from the animals, it is not always a good idea to start with negative distinctions - pointing out, for example, that animals can not do such and such, but we can.

Having spoken thus and moved the audience so that at least they had sensed the dialectical conflict of faith and its gigantic passion, I would not give rise to the error on the part of the audience that «he then has faith in such a high degree that it is enough for us to hold on to his skirts.»

I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but not similar enough to explain the coincidence: I am speaking from a podium to a fairly large audience on the topics of — to put it broadly — evil, suffering, and God; I have been talking for several minutes about Ivan Karamazov, and about things I have written on Dostoevsky, to what seems general approbation; then, for some reason or other, I happen to remark that, considered purely as an artist, Dostoevsky is immeasurably inferior to Tolstoy; at this, a single pained gasp of incredulity breaks out somewhat to the right of the podium, and I turn my head to see a woman with long brown hair, somewhere in her middle thirties, seated in the third or fourth row, shaking her head in wide - eyed astonishment at my loutish stupidity.

Malcolm did not share the optimism of the civil rights movement and thus found himself speaking to many unsympathetic audiences.

Don't be Ashamed of Using Oak Alternatives Speaking to an audience of fellow winemakers at the second annual Wines & Vines Oak Conference, Celia Welch said it's time to embrace oak alternatives...

He also discussed the use of sites like Politicopia to encourage discussion in the middle rather than on the fringes of the political spectrum, though judging from the audience questions, the crowd was a bit more skeptical about the potential for getting moderates to speak up (i.e., they're moderate because they're not strongly involved).

Blogging can be for a small audience — not only large ones — all that matters is that it speaks to who you want it to.

Speaking alongside MSP Annabel Goldie, Alistair Darling told an audience this morning: «This referendum challenges all of us in Scotland to answer some deep questions — not just what we believe but who we are.

He began by joking that it was «nice to speaking to an audience where I'm relatively popular - it certainly doesn't happen in the House of Commons very often».

«I think it speaks well of the DA here in Albany County, that he gave the Democrats an audience, and decided he's not going to pursue it,» he said.

Andrew Lansley will become the first health secretary for eight years not to speak at the RCN conference this week, as he seeks to avoid the fate that befell Patricia Hewitt several years ago, when she was booed and heckled by the audience.

But what it did not do — and what this conference failed to do - is speak to the audience outside the Bournemouth International Conference centre.

«There is no contradiction between being of Commonwealth heritage and voting to Remain and anybody who thinks that Nigel Farage is speaking against European migrants because he just wants to let more Commonwealth migrants into the country hasn't been paying attention to UKIP,» she told an audience at the People's History Museum in Manchester.

Not to throw bouquets, but contrast Hein's talk - and - walk approach to congressman John Faso's of giving up almost all his speaking time at January's breakfast to field questions from the audience.

The audience immediately shouted him down and Lewis - Martin spoke into the microphone over the noise: «How can the city tell the community that they're opening up a shelter and it doesn't know the amount that it's going to cost the city?»

Laurence Fishburne began to cry when he introduced audience members of his play Thurgood to his father, whom he hadn't spoken to in fifteen years.

President Obama is coming to New York's 14th District tonight for a fundraiser to benefit Democrats around the country, but unlike much of the New York delegation, Rep. Maloney chose not to help raise money for the event, even though she's speaking to the audience.

When giving a scientific presentation to a lay audience, don't assume that the data speak for themselves.

And we've often thought of the Sputnik moment as a place that the U.S. leapt forward in many ways, but Rush Holt said that it also was a place where the division between the so - called two cultures at C. P. Snow spoke of really started to happen in a way that he hadn't appreciated until now, and he suggested this to the audience.

As patients have complained, many doctors in the audiences I've been speaking to have piped up in defense, claiming that patients aren't communicating in a way that facilitates healthy dialogue and is respectful of the limitations on the doctor's time.

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Most of the people I spoke to were not that bothered by it, but the difference of opinion highlighted one question for me: in the longer - term, are events geared for both industry and consumer audiences really workable?

I also love how critics seem to think that they can speak for moviegoers by saying things like David Goyer who seems to hate moviegoers more than he hates critics» or «greater «inescapable» scenarios which works itself to absurdity until the audience, not the villain, is beaten into submission.»

Just from a screenwriting standpoint, it's not a good idea to have a vast majority of your speaking roles all start with the same letter as it can get confusing to the reader, let alone the eventual audience, if there is one.

At the end of the movie, an old grizzled black man speaks directly to the audience and says, «You got to be a spirit, not a ghost.»

Lucy will not speak to a wide audience but those that fall within its target reach should be rewarded with thought - provoking science fiction.

There's this bizarre concern by Hollywood that audiences will rebel if they don't fully understand what's going on at every given moment, and so characters talk to themselves, motivations are spelled out in voiceover, and everyone, especially in action movies, speaks of what they have to do and why they have to do it.

Will Gluck, who directed the light comedies Easy A and Friends with Benefits, brings his audience - friendly talent on board for this musical, though it is interesting that the film only really comes to life through some of the musical numbers and not through the spoken dialogue or comic characterizations.

Yet that won't matter because the people this movie will speak most deeply to — a rainbow - coalition cross-section of black comic book readers, African - American movie audiences, Boseman / Jordan / Bassett / N'yongo fans, black - culture connoisseurs and pop - culture nerds — will see something of themselves in this movie.

James Mangold (Logan) spoke passionately about avoiding clichés and «cheats» that so many films use today to grab audiences who weren't grabbed by the movie — like outtakes and «bonus scenes» in the credit crawl.

The film's success speaks not only to the awe - inspiring visuals but also to the universal appeal of the story's emotional journey, a combination that continues to captivate audiences everywhere.»