Either the hearer is appalled at the idea (and voices some of the remarks about land-grabbing, crime, etc., etc.) or the hearer is really excited with us about it. From Wordnik.com. [Misconceptions about Mexico (Theater of the Absurd)] Reference
The hearer is responding from his point of view (location). From Wordnik.com. [Traer versus llenar] Reference
The effect of words upon the hearer is a mnemic phenomena, since it depends upon the past experience which gave him understanding of the words. From Wordnik.com. [The Analysis of Mind] Reference
Papias, like Polycarp, was a "hearer" of John the Divine and Apostle. From Wordnik.com. [The Books of the New Testament] Reference
That hearer is as present to me, always has been, as. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
"It is more than you suspect," dissented his hearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
First, it must be plain and euident to the hearer, not obscure. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
The hearer, then, consciously or otherwise, passes judgment on the facts. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
His hearer indicated that he was entirely at the disposal of the detective. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
= The screech of the owl was supposed to be an omen of death to the hearer. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
The appeal was made with a quiet, touching earnestness, that affected every hearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
And here she gave a sigh which prepared the hearer for the disclosure that was to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Paul Laurence Dunbar depicts its telling effects upon the hearer in his poem "The Party". From Wordnik.com. [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference
"That's not bad," said my hearer, critically, whilst I held the book open with horror and amazement. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
The music is so grand and sublime, so passionate and deep, that it enters into the heart of the hearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
In "Who did it?" the fact that some person did it is asserted, and the hearer is requested to name the person. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The terms in which he says it, -- the predicate, -- he, of course, assumes that the hearer already understands. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
But Gratz hurried on, explained the unconscious visits of his astounded hearer to the cellar, and all that followed. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
A single voice sounds like a powerful choir; and could an organ be played, it would deprive the hearer of his senses. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
"I enlisted as a private," said he, speaking with a difficulty that might not have been manifest to any ordinary hearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
His tone giving assurance that he had effectually disposed of the delinquent caused his hearer a thrill of satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
His occasional addresses were charming to the hearer, and no man could deliver a more edifying speech at any celebration. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 66: James The Challoner Revision] Reference
Variety is restful to the reader or hearer and therefore adds greatly to the clearness and to the force of what is addressed to him. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
But if words are neither useful to the speaker, nor necessary for the hearer, nor contain any pleasure or charm, why are they spoken?. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Such sights, such a discussion, such a perilous position in which to listen, make the hearer susceptible to the slightest impression. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
It is pleasing and graceful, and the orchestration is so brilliant, that it may even deceive the hearer as to the poverty of invention. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Every image is explicable to the youngest hearer, while none suggests actual familiarity, because the actors are not children, but pigs. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
When possible to attend the preaching of the word she was "not a forgetful hearer," but kept up her old method of prayerful abstraction. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
Its object is to strike the golden mean in such a way as to rivet the attention of the hearer or reader on the words uttered or written. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
I believe the inner secret of success is the measure of force with which the teller wills the conveyance of his impression to the hearer. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
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