Branagh even avoids sentimentality in the climactic prison scene where he achieves a rapport with his black cellmate and speculates about an after-life with a Hamletesque bewilderment.
Ethnographers may need to win the trust of their subjects to get them to open up, and to achieve a rapport with them to understand what they are up to.
(To achieve a rapport among cast members, Linklater worked with a group of young and in some cases even first-time actors, their chemistry honed over weeks of rehearsal and relaxation at the filmmaker's rural retreat outside of Austin).
The actors in "Saved" were initially nervous about him, he said, but seemed to have achieved a greater rapport with him than their British counterparts.
Mr. Langrée has achieved a wonderful rapport with these players, and he led them with supple understatement, yielding alert performances of a springy resilience that seemed particularly Mozartean.
Known by his staff as the Great Mogul, he achieved an excellent rapport with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and other senior officials in the Indian government.
In 1907 he met Frederick Delius, with whom he achieved an immediate rapport – the two musicians had similar ideas about composition and harmony, and shared a dislike for the classical German masters.
There had been hopes that May and Trump – whose mother was British – would achieve a similar rapport.
The Russian move was expected and conformed to diplomatic protocol, but it further underscored the challenges hindering recent attempts at achieving a lasting rapport between Russia and the West.
Benevolent beings, usually angels but sometimes ghosts of ancestors or other spiritual beings that have been placated by sacrifices or other rituals, assist man in achieving a proper rapport with God, other spiritual beings, or man's life situations.
