receptive audience

collocation in English

meaningsofreceptiveandaudience

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receptive
adjective
uk
/rɪˈsep.tɪv/us
/rɪˈsep.tɪv/
willing to listen to and accept new ideas ...
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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 ofreceptiveandaudiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And as the forces amassed against him grew larger, his "rhetoric found an increasinglyreceptiveaudience" (p. 31).
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An idea that did not go far under one government may actually find a morereceptiveaudienceunder another.
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The accusations need not be accurate or even logical, but if they are simple and clear, they may find areceptiveaudience.
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The respectable classes' anxieties about the disorderly and degraded social conditions of the inner wards ensured areceptiveaudiencefor the temperance message.
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By all accounts, the rebels found areceptiveaudienceamong the poorest residents of the town.
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They can learn to explain architectural ideas clearly and unambiguously to areceptiveaudience, and this highlights the first of the important lessons that live project programmes offer - communication skills.
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The presentation of certain selected items and issues by the media always has areceptiveaudience.
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This group proved areceptiveaudienceand when the war ended several families moved to the community.
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Despite some pedestrian plotting and a final act that could be tighter, this is suspenseful adult entertainment that should find areceptiveaudience.
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Areceptiveaudiencehas welcomed these efforts from the appearance of the first issue of the journal.
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Even as the show proved popular to television's critics, it struggled to find areceptiveaudienceof television viewers.
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The album was released to a veryreceptiveaudience.
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This type of audience is not necessarily imagined as the mostreceptiveaudience, but as the future particular audience that the rhetor will engage with.
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He played the band's demo on the station, which helped their music to be exposed to areceptiveaudience.
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There he delivered a powerful series of sermons heard by attentive and receptive audiences.
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