Sentence examples for audience passivity from inspiring English sources

One of Ms. Lacey's predictions had been that audience passivity and participation would become like salt and sweet.

Of course, you may not always be in the mood to be centre stage: the latter stages of Aussie comic Steen Raskopoulos's set, where he threatens to press-gang the whole audience into a boogie on stage, had me pining for the duller days of audience passivity.

Haneke wants to create a dialogue with his audience, not induce passivity.

Many of the instruments may be familiar from classical music but almost everything else – the distinctions between "noise" and "music", the authority of notated scores, the passivity of audiences – is up for grabs.

He comes across as a sympathetic truth-teller, even as his jeremiads against corporate power, and his critique of the slavish passivity of his audience, serve to buttress corporate power through the manipulation of that very audience.

In addition, authors believe that a user's influence depends not only on the size of the influenced audience, but also on their passivity.

What's going away are the linearity of the process and the passivity of the audience.

Critics and audiences alike complain of his passivity.

Third, that it promotes passivity – which today's audiences, used to interactivity and with shorter attention spans, will not tolerate.

The then-current picture-frame stage called for passivity of response in audiences and their separation from the actors, lest the spell of illusion be broken.

Bigelow takes advantage of this passivity to suggest to her audience that the only downside of torture is the fear of accountability.