Sentences with phrase «sympathetic audience for»

Broadcasters recognize that it is easier to gain an interested and sympathetic audience for religious programs in those regions and among those groups who are already interested in religion and for whom religious practice is an important element in their lives.

Not exact matches

This description resembles the «Black Panther» villain Killmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan, who was praised by critics and audiences for being a sympathetic figure even though his methods were brutal.

It would be easier for politicians who are our allies to speak effectively about the issue, and they would find a more sympathetic audience.

But in opting for what many observers (even sympathetic ones) have called a «timid» approach to income tax, the SNP has also essentially repudiated a lot of its previous attack lines, not least the regular cry that Labour are little more than «Red Tories», although a lady in the audience last night had a go by referring to «ScotLab Tories».

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.

I saw several scientists in the audience nod on that note, sympathetic with the time - honored need for government funding of big science.

The difference between American Splendor and Ghost World is that with two solitary figures in search of completion, there is the possibility for recognition of sameness — but with two figures (underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis)-RRB- who have found in one another a sympathetic orbit, a partner in life and lo, with a child dropped willy - nilly into their midst to tie up loose ends, there is instead a sort of alien, island of lost toys exclusion that makes for a further alienation of the very alienated audience to which Pekar's comic so appealed and, eventually, took for granted and pandered.

As «Little Charles,» he definitely has the narrative's most sympathetic story but more importantly, in a film that is full of despicable people, he manages to pull the audience in to root for him, even when you know he's doing something terribly wrong.

Improving on his 2008 debut, the proficient soccer - hooligan bio «Cass,» Baird spares the audience's sensibilities (and stomach fluids) to some extent in his adaptation, leaving out some of Welsh's least pleasant details and digressions — no regular updates on Robertson's diseased genitals, for starters, though at least one penis - related gag lands on target — and constructing a more sympathetic backstory for this baddest of bad lieutenants.

Her Amy is by far the film's most grounded character and is a sympathetic figure for the audience to latch on to.

Beautiful, yet dark and moving, unsparing, but told with a sympathetic eye, «Ginger & Rosa» is sometimes relentless in its examination of emotional pain, and as such may be a challenging picture for some audiences.

For the first time audiences were presented with a likable and sympathetic monster who decides to fight against his destiny to destroy humanity and instead protect the planet.

The film simply packs a punch to the audience, creating one outlandish situation after another and daring audiences to feel sympathetic towards horrendous family members that seemingly only care for themselves.

This is all to say that I'm sympathetic to any audience member who might have scoffed at the dramatic end of Avengers: Infinity War, the latest and largest of Marvel's ongoing cinematic universe, in which the supervillain Thanos (Josh Brolin) fights for control of the all - powerful Infinity Stones.

Danny Glover, who is probably best known for being Mel Gibson's partner in the Lethal Weapon series, makes a fine, sympathetic Paul D. Glover's role as the outsider is to lead the audience into the strange, closed world that exists at 124 Bluestone Road, and it's a part that he fulfills admirably.

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.

Let us assume for example that our purpose in short story writing is to express our feelings on a controversial topic, and that our audience is a close, sympathetic friend.

3) When you're making a game for a worldwide audience (which Nintendo certainly does), you also need to understand and be sympathetic to how story elements around controversial subjects will play to a global audience.

At the center of every Rockstar experience is a sympathetic protagonist whose bad deeds can't stop the audience from rooting for them, but prior to Grand Theft Auto V, these leading characters lacked a certain level of complexity.

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.

From an emotional perspective, as a person of color in the United States, it is difficult not to take umbrage at the image of a white man, a published poet and Ivy League academic, appropriating the murdered body of a Black man for the benefit of a largely white audience that may be sympathetic but can not empathize with the deceased.

Or better yet, go here for a more sympathetic audience: http://thepeoplescube.com/.