Sentence examples for confront audiences from inspiring English sources

Instead, he and his set designer, Scott Pask, confront audiences with a kind of gritty abstraction of coastal life.

This, after all, is a man whose self-declared mission is to confront audiences with "the crisis in the human species".

"I thought it was a scam at first," said Spallen, whose plays include Strandline, and who was cited for dramas that "confront audiences with all the awkward questions, reminding us with thrilling proof that theatre can still be urgently necessary".

Performers have every right to remind us of the political and social systems that connect us all, and to confront audiences with the difficult musical meanings that are latent in any concert programme.

I didn't want to confront audiences on the road, I just wanted them to love me.

He pointed to the fact that the creators of 13 Reasons Why defended the show's content by saying it's important to confront audiences with the realities of things like suicide and rape.

In a way, this production dares to confront audience members in the moment.

But then again, I didn't get The Office on my very first viewing, a series that confronted audiences with a similarly unlabelled mix of empathy and mockery.

"Edward confronts audiences head-on with death here, in a way that may have been ahead of its time in 1980," Mr. Houghton said.

In the nineteen-fifties, Dimitri Mitropoulos confronted audiences with twelve-tone music and had them dancing in the aisles, albeit toward the exits.

Not brave in the usual 20th-century-art sense, as in confronting audiences with the unfamiliar, but brave as in consistently going simple and deep, almost embarrassingly so, at the cost of concision or wit.