Sentence examples for modern listener from inspiring English sources

The fact is that, by its very nature, The Archers is an anachronism, and the modern listener wants a bit more from the programme than Tom's sausages, village cricket and, yes, even badgers.

The idealised pains and pleasures of courtly love are captured with haunting intensity, variously melismatic, rhythmically playful and full of conundrums and puzzles, sensed but hardly understood by a modern listener.

Oh, I forgot, we're not talking about modern listeners.

Few modern listeners will approach Dufay and other Renaissance composers in the same spirit.

All ask, in different ways, how we should approach works whose devotional intensity is alien to most modern listeners.

Modern listeners have been taught never to conflate a singer with her protagonists, but Crutchfield can make it difficult to obey this injunction.

Mr. Walker emphasized the social component of media consumption: the ways modern listeners will discover new forms and promote them, if they enjoy them.

Modern listeners may find him frothy, said Leon Botstein, the co-artistic director of the festival, in an introductory pep talk on Friday.

You can't fault them for that, but not knowing all the details, modern listeners get a skewed view of what black people liked to sing.

Through his use of clipped phrases, aborted gestures and distilled development, Mr. Constant manages to mock the overblown, crash-bang symphony and reinvent it for modern listeners.

Yet he did not sell short either his own muscularity or modern listeners' preference for the weight and dynamic breadth of today's concert grand.