I sincerely do not understand former contestants who walk around patting themselves on the back for "inspiring people" but when they are asked to acknowledge the viewers that have turned to self-harming behaviors to emulate what they see presented on that show as healthy, respond with "that was their choice".
On the few occasions in which they do, their faces reveal a sense of hostility as if acknowledging the viewer as an invasive presence to their privacy.
Like the artist's self-portrait in the catalogue with its demure glance away from the camera, these images indirectly acknowledge the gaze of the viewer yet never submit to the collective ownership of an audience.
Pay-TV bosses scarcely acknowledge the existence of viewers who do not subscribe to multichannel TV, talking only of people who have "yet to choose" a provider.
But others say that will happen only if American studios acknowledge the sophistication of Chinese viewers, a large number of whom are college-educated, and not easily beguiled by routine action and fantasy imports.
The work aims to provoke a sympathetic response in the viewer, forcing him to acknowledge the inherent "sense" of the irrational and logically inexplicable.
It has to acknowledge the crisis while still providing viewers with an escape.
(Though Ms. Stack sympathetically notes that by incorporating slaves into his paintings, Bingham "encourages viewers to acknowledge the existence of slaves, to recognize their labor, and to 'see' them excluded from the democratic process").
The following morning, she appeared on "CBS This Morning" to acknowledge the error and apologize to viewers.
With one arm he bearhugs Scrappy Underdog, who is just outclassed in this showdown, and with the other he acknowledges us, the viewer and embraces our bitter, shitty souls in the warmest the hugs.
