That was all a bit of a yawn for me, and only appealed to female audiences ... I felt if you could appeal to the boys as well, you'd be laughing.

Polls of the PBS and NPR audiences in 2002 and 2003 indicated that few felt that the groups ' news reports contained bias, and those that saw a slant were split as to which side they believed the reports favored.

Hall was initially concerned that audiences would not like the characters ; he only felt able to identify with them during cast rehearsals, which gave him fresh ideas on his approach to the visuals.

Where Olivier staged the comic scenes as comedy, Branagh played them as serious drama, because he felt the humour was outdated and incomprehensible to modern audiences.

Also, audiences who felt that Disney had suddenly gone " highbrow " stayed away, preferring the standard Disney cartoons.

The overall experience was not one that Heard enjoyed, partly due to his personal experiences with record company executives, and partly due to compromises he felt under pressure to make in order to make himself and his songs more marketable to Christian audiences.

It was looked down upon by music critics and audiences, who felt that Walt was striving for something beyond his reach by trying to introduce mainstream animation to abstract art, classical music, and " elite " subjects.

There was humour throughout his music but he sometimes felt it necessary to tell audiences that the free playing was not intended as a joke.

It was rejected for seeming too bleak ; the final exit from the hospital was intended to imply Selena and Hannah's survival, whereas test audiences felt that the women were marching off to certain death.

In 2000, Davis was succeeded by Leonard Slatkin, whose relationship with the players was uneasy, and whose repertoire was not generally liked by the orchestra or the audiences ; he was felt to emphasise twentieth century American music at the expense of cutting-edge modern works and the central European classics.

Pomus stated that more often as not, he was the only Caucasian in the clubs, but that as both a Jew and a polio victim, he felt a special " underdog " kinship with African-Americans, while in turn the audiences both respected his courage and were impressed with his talent.

Siskel and Roger Ebert spent an entire episode of their TV show berating the film ( and other slasher films of the time ) because they felt it would make audiences root for the killer.

It was ages before I felt ready to perform my own songs in front of other people ," and she also credits Parish for teaching her how to perform in front of audiences, saying " after the experience with John's band and seeing him perform I found it was enormously helpful to me as a performer to engage with people in the audience, and I probably did learn that from him, amongst other things.

Thalberg, however, felt differently, and thought the film would have an impact on movie audiences, due to its classic literary source, and would highlight MGM as a major new studio.

R & B was not extensively recorded and promoted because record companies felt that it was not suited for most audiences, especially middle-class whites, because of the suggestive lyrics and driving rhythms.

During the reshoot for season seven, director Stuart Burge initially thought about shooting the entire episode against a blank tapestry background, with no set whatsoever, but it was felt that audiences may not respond well to this, and the idea was scrapped.

" Because the story of the Passion is so well known, Gibson felt the need to avoid vernacular languages in order to surprise audiences: " I think it's almost counterproductive to say some of these things in a modern language.

Scholar Ann Romines has suggested that Laura made Almanzo younger because it was felt that more modern audiences would be scandalized by the great difference in their ages in light of their young marriage.

The most ambitious attempt at bring modern realism into the drama was James Herne's Margaret Fleming, which addressed issues of social determinism through realistic dialogue, psychological insight and symbolism ; the play was not a success, as critics and audiences alike felt it dwelt too much on unseemly topics and included improper scenes, such as the main character nursing her husband's illegitimate child onstage.

Nevertheless, Stafford was not credited for her work at her own request until 1958 with the film Misguided Missile, as she felt audiences might reject a woman doing Woody's voice.

While the rebrand was a small success for both channels it was felt that RTÉ 2 and RTÉ 1 needed more specific audiences, RTÉ 2 at this stage was becoming more and more associated with youth orientated programming and sports programming ( especially as UK channels were becoming more and more available across the country ).

Williams felt that "... the challenge for me was to provide songs that reflected the period ... and yet maintained an energy that would hold the young audiences attention.

" Roger Ebert said it made audiences " squirm out of enjoyment, not terror ," and listed details in the film that he felt were typical of such films, including " the bright young doctor, whose warnings are ignored " and " the loyal wife and kids ," as well as " the usual cats and dogs, necessary for the obligatory scene in which they can sense something even when the humans can't.

Test audiences enjoyed the comical struggles of Alex's android impostor at the trailer park so much that the producers decided to shoot more of these scenes, which they felt gave this science fiction film a unique flavor.

) It was enthusiastically greeted by readers who thought Waugh had returned to early form with this short comic novel, but later critics have felt that this caused audiences to overrate the book.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The thin legs twitched convulsively once, then Kate felt the little body stiffening in her arms and heard one strangled sound.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

Moreover, once these steps are taken, they may require years to make themselves felt.

They felt that they too could counteract the upward arm movement by a voluntary effort after they had once experienced the reaction.

She wasn't quite sure that I felt enough remorse about my drinking, or that I would not return to it once I was out and on my own again.

He hit him once on the sharp point of his chin and felt the body go limp.

It was terribly off key, and poorly done, and Tommy could never admit to herself that male companionship was a very natural and important thing, but all at once she felt lonesome and put-upon.

She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

Her eyes opened as soon as she heard me, though, and once again, I felt an inward shiver.

Art is complete once the artist has really said everything that was on his mind, and this is precisely the advantage Munch has over painters of the other generation, that he really knows how to show us what he has felt, and what has gripped him, and to this he subordinates everything else.

They are self-conscious about speaking formally and their rhetoric is shown to be flawed, as if Euripides was exploring the problematical nature of language and communication: " For speech points in three different directions at once, to the speaker, to the person addressed, to the features in the world it describes, and each of these directions can be felt as skewed.

Auchinleck — although believing he could stop Rommel at Alamein — felt he could not ignore the possibility that he might once more be outmanoeuvered or outfought.

He once said he felt as though he were writing for people who would think in a different way, breathe a different air of life, from that of present-day men.

The strike did secure some concessions, but Mao and other student leaders felt that they were now under threat from the furious Zhang, and were sent as representatives to China's provincial centers ; thus, Mao once again traveled to Peking.

" Friedman felt that there might be a brief period (" measured in months ") of higher unemployment, followed by recovery once inflation was tamed.

The holiness revival was primarily among people of Methodist persuasion, who felt that the church had once again become apathetic, losing the Wesleyan zeal.

It's only once he arrived in Newcastle that he felt he had returned to a civilized part of the world and the inhabitable face of the Earth, Scotland and the far north of England being " wild, bare and never visited by the sun in winter ".

After Lennon's death, McCartney once again attempted to change the order to " McCartney – Lennon " for songs such as " Yesterday " that were solely or predominantly written by him, but Ono would not allow it, saying she felt this broke an agreement that the two had made while Lennon was still alive.

Accepting an award at the 2005 Q Awards, Ono mentioned that Lennon had once felt insecure about his songwriting, and asked her why other musicians " always cover Paul's songs, and never mine ".

The name homophonically means " return again "; it was given to Lee by his mother, who felt he would return to the United States once he came of age.

Walter Cronkite, who started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his coverage of World War II in Europe and turned down Edward R. Murrow's first offer of a CBS job to stay with UP, but who later went on to anchor the CBS Evening News, once said, " I felt every Unipresser got up in the morning saying, ' This is the day I'm going to beat the hell out of AP.

However others may have felt, on January 2, 1861, Bayard is widely credited for convincing the Delaware General Assembly to drop, once and for all, any thought of secession.

In his Autobiography, Williams would later write, " I felt at once that Waste Land had set me back twenty years and I'm sure it did.