Sentences with phrase «sympathetic audience»
A sympathetic audience refers to a group of people who are understanding and supportive of what someone is saying or feeling. They listen with empathy and are more likely to agree with or relate to the speaker. Full definition
It would be easier for politicians who are our allies to speak effectively about the issue, and they would find a more sympathetic audience.
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His self - deprecating tone was well received by the very sympathetic audience in the conference hall.
She has appeared on the covers of national magazines and has criss - crossed the country to speak before sympathetic audiences, from the United States Congress to the prestigious Sun Valley conference.
Cassidy is a natural and likable actress, and she makes for an easily sympathetic audience surrogate.
She has appeared on the covers of national magazines and has criss - crossed the country to speak before sympathetic audiences, from the United States Congress to the prestigious Sun Valley conference.
MASS MoCA's performing arts residencies offer well - equipped and professionally staffed technical facilities and stages, and a sophisticated, diverse, and sympathetic audience for new work.
Verbalization of one's past escapades before a sympathetic audience is actually a part of the cathartic process of working through one's guilt feelings.
His daughter, Scout, now in her mid-twenties and visiting home from her erstwhile and vaguely described life in New York, finds Atticus at a meeting where a professional scaremonger warns the sympathetic audience that their concern is «not the question of whether snot - nosed niggers will go to school with your children or ride in the front of the bus... it's whether... we will be slaves of the Communists» and «nigger lawyers.»
In his speech to a sympathetic audience in Tolpuddle — part festival, part political rally — where Keep Corbyn T shirts were scattered throughout the crowd, he said the protests that take place outside parliament help to influence the government's decisions — claiming victory for the rejection of the tax credit cuts, for example.
De Blasio has been sued by several politicians who usually support him, including Public Advocate Letitia James, to stop the approved co-locations, while Moskowitz has loudly protested the blocked proposals, finding a sympathetic audience in Governor Andrew Cuomo and the hosts of «Morning Joe.»
Only after his remarks before a sympathetic audience at the art gallery did he address the indictments in a press conference with reporters.
Author and speech recognition innovator Ray Kurzweil told a sympathetic audience that we have arrived at the age of exponentials.
So, seizing the opportunity of a sympathetic audience, and amidst a season where many of the 84 movies put forward by their home countries as Academy Award contenders are floating around at festivals — big and small, rural and urban, American and elsewhere — I thought I'd weigh in on the titles I've caught.
But if the civil rights attorneys inside the departments of justice and education are eager to press forward, and if school districts resist such pressures, the latter are likely to find a sympathetic audience both within and outside the teaching profession.
Addressing a sympathetic audience, Mr. de Blasio talked up the support for his prekindergarten plan, and the positive effect he said it would have on the city's children.
Bush was not ignoring the numerous controversies of his administration — the strategy one might have imagined he would adopt at a motivational seminar, before a sympathetic audience and facing no risk of hostile questions.
The Riffs hope to change that, and Tuesday it seemed they had a sympathetic audience in Judge J. Leonard Fleet, who waxed poetic about canine selflessness.
The grainy, poignant experimental films made a couple of people flee, but mostly they found a sympathetic audience of hard - core video lovers and art historians who had arrived in Barcelona for the LOOP Video Fair, opening the next day in Hotel Catalonia Ramblas.
«I think part of that is being in the university environment where people are important in their departments — they're mostly dealing with graduate students (and) sympathetic audiences, by and large, or audiences that criticize them differently than in a business organizations.»
She found a sympathetic audience with the Court of Appeals and they reversed that pesky trial judge and reinstated her case.