contemporary audience

collocation in English

meaningsofcontemporaryandaudience

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contemporary
adjective
uk
/kənˈtem.pər.ər.i/us
/kənˈtem.pə.rer.i/
existing or happening now, and therefore ...
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audience
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.di.əns/us
/ˈɑː.di.əns/
the group of people together in one place to watch or listen to a play, film, someone ...
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(Definition ofcontemporaryandaudiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As funny as it might sound today, this sentimental style was perceived as sincerely moving by a portion of thecontemporaryaudience.
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So they entered symbolically the same auditorium in which thecontemporaryaudiencewas sitting, and then watched symbolically the rest of the evening together.
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Recently published revisionist literature has constructed a sociologically realistic portrayal of a professional musician working among other musicians for acontemporaryaudiencein a specific historical context.
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The strategy in both cases is to justify and protect the purity, simplicity and directness o f feelings by ascribing them to a society more innocent than thecontemporaryaudience.
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Through the persistent violation of the musical protocols of the period, thecontemporaryaudiencewould understand all the more clearly just how deeply the times were ' out of joint'.
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For acontemporaryaudience, they were in the first instance a theatrical partnership of two well-suited stage personae: the adult vice/ clown and the boy actor as irascible stooge.
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Lauded by fans, the work remains rarely seen, having been programmed to an elusive adultcontemporaryaudiencewith only modest rotation.
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They discussed changes to the opera's plot, dialogue and score that were being explored to make the work more appealing to acontemporaryaudience.
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Now acontemporaryaudiencehas the benefit of glimpsing this wilderness in its mid 20th century form.
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Some critics have questioned the book's relevance to acontemporaryaudience.
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The process involves making the films more attractive to acontemporaryaudienceby inserting computer-generated happy endings.
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We made the changes that will improve it for acontemporaryaudience.
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In the last decade, his work has been featured in a number of international exhibitions, helping introduce his pieces to a morecontemporaryaudience.
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It's required us to reinvent ourselves to acontemporaryaudience.
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Although set in 1920, it would have had resonances for contemporary audiences in the ways in which it epitomises urban attitudes towards the peasantry.
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Phillips tailored the baggy looks of the 1930s suits, to make them appealing for thecontemporaryaudience.
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He insisted on the freedom to explore various musical styles and forms, searching for a fusion that would reach thecontemporaryaudienceand communicate the present human situation.
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The e-memorial provides an innovative and technologically advanced way for acontemporaryaudienceto understand a memorial dedicated to a president whose legacy will reach far into the future.
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But it makes no sense to insist repeatedly that contemporary audiences did, as a fact, hear such subtexts if one cannot adduce the evidence.
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