Sentence examples for one addressee from inspiring English sources

He remakes Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, not only hazing it up but also, vitally, replacing the letter the original figure holds in her fingers – a unique, hand-written article with one addressee – with a newspaper: an impersonal, mass-produced media object.

In 20 triads of naive subjects, speakers told the same Road Runner cartoon story twice to one addressee and once to another addressee, counterbalanced for order (Addressee1/Addressee1/Addressee2 or Addressee1/Addressee2/Addressee1).

As van Eemeren (2005: xii) argues: manipulation in discourse boils down to intentionally deceiving one's addressees by persuading them of something that is foremost in one's own interest through the covert use of communicative devices that are not in agreement with generally acknowledged critical standards of reasonableness.

manipulation in discourse boils down to intentionally deceiving one's addressees by persuading them of something that is foremost in one's own interest through the covert use of communicative devices that are not in agreement with generally acknowledged critical standards of reasonableness.

It does not impose duties on the addressee, but it shows that the addressee has good reasons for acting to satisfy the demand.

William Merrill Decker explains in "Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America Before Telecommunications" (1998) that letter writers were willing to "consent to write five letters on the chance that one might reach the addressee".

Finally, one of the addressees wrote to all, pointing out that the only way to end the madness was, quite simply, to stop.

Citizen's "you" refuses to denote a single addressee, let alone one gender or one racial identity.

On the one hand, this extension will give us a better sense of what the primary types cover; for example, differentiating 'recommending' into 'promoting' and 'advising' gives a clearer sense of the intended beneficiary of a recommendation (speaker and addressee, respectively).

I was immediately drawn into the book because it became clear early on that the addressee in the title is not a person but is instead the fast-food chain Wendy's -- or maybe one Wendy's outlet in particular -- being addressed as if it were a person.

"Hope that the road is a long one," his anonymous speaker admonishes an addressee who may be Odysseus but may also be the reader.