The phrase "as though addressing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a manner of speaking or writing that seems directed towards someone or something, often in a hypothetical or figurative sense.
Example: "The author wrote the letter as though addressing a long-lost friend, filled with warmth and nostalgia."
Alternatives: "as if speaking to" or "as if directing towards".
Gibson delivered the line looking into the camera, as though addressing us directly.
ROMANER (as though addressing Barnes): He was going to lend me his sixteen-millimetre to make the film.
One, as though addressing the assembled men, said: "We tell you things just to get as much money as we can get".
"Do you imagine, Frank, that anything could happen in this country to make just normal not be possible again?" He continues facing eastward, as though addressing an analyst sitting in a chair behind him.
And Mr. Washington, who credits a drug treatment program two years ago with helping him to straighten out his life, spoke of his lingering sense of injustice as though addressing his former employer, Mr. Biederman.
"It's like you're able to turn to the camera as though addressing the viewing audience and say, 'Do you see what I'm dealing with here?' " The most famous episode of "Heavyweight" is the second of the first season, "Gregor".
Trump, though, addressed none of that.
Sample problems in mathematical texts (usually phrased in the second person as though addressed to a student) frequently discuss commercial transactions and often include vocatives such as "merchant" or "best of merchants," suggesting that the intended audience included members of the mercantile class.
Though by addressing the topic as briefly as I did, and by not being clearer, I certainly fostered that impression.
The pronouncement, with its urgings and encouragements for female members of orthodox communities to stay engaged in Torah-learning notwithstanding, reads as though properly addressed to girls - which is to say, as if its exclusively male authors have little concern about being responded to by women.
It sounds as though you are addressing a constituency that almost by definition is a minority.
