" An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience.

In Book I, the Count states that when the courtier speaks he must have a “ sonorous, clear, sweet and well sounding ” voice that is neither too effeminate nor too rough and be “ tempered by a calm face and with a play of the eyes that shall give an effect of grace .” ( Castiglione 1. 33 ) This grace, or grazia, becomes an important element in the courtier ’ s appearance to the audience.

In their first exchange in Act I, scene 1, Cleopatra says to Antony, “ I ’ ll set a bourn how far to be beloved .” In this case Cleopatra speaks in an authoritative and affirming sense to her lover, which to Shakespeare ’ s audience would be uncharacteristic for a female lover.

Garth then covertly speaks to the audience, sensing he has a bad feeling that Wayne is selling out, but he is too shy to confront Wayne about it.

He speaks it while dressed up as Adolf Hitler while promoting the extermination of Jews to an oblivious audience that didn't speak German.

Her earliest known appearance as a Muppet is a 1970s sketch in which Grover speaks to the audience about being afraid of the dark.

* the Groaner Foul, whereby an Actlete who speaks a pun bad enough to make the audience groan loses at least one point for their team, unless their apology to the audience is heartfelt enough.

A soliloquy ( from Latin: " talking by oneself ") is a device often used in drama when a character speaks to oneself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience.

* Piece to camera, a television and film term used for when a presenter or a character speaks directly to the viewing audience through the camera.

At the beginning of the film, Soderbergh speaks to the audience in a style meant to evoke Cecil B. DeMille's introduction to The Ten Commandments.

An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience.

* In the movie Fairy Tale: A True Story based on the Cottingley Fairies, the Theosophic Society organizes a seminar, where a participant speaks to the audience claiming to be an eyewitness of the apparition.

Rogers frequently speaks directly to the audience and to Florenz Ziegfeld himself, who often interjects to question the progress of the show and to give some directorial advice.

* Boris speaks to the audience: " There are some things worse than death.

Because the filmmakers use the 180-degree rule, and have the " good " Gollum looking left as he speaks while the " evil " Gollum looking right, the audience perceives Gollum as two different characters talking to each other.

Mrs. Lee ( Japanese-American actress Anne Miyamoto ) appears ethnically Chinese, but she speaks English with a thoroughly American accent, and explains to the audience that her husband's " ancient Chinese secret " is that he uses Calgon water softener.

An MC usually presents performers, speaks to the audience, and generally keeps the event moving.

He sings and speaks in a moderate tone of voice, never moves more than fairly quickly, and never hits the audience over the head with a joke.

Although the pope writes to a world-wide audience, he also speaks specifically of the Catholic faith, including references not only to the Sacred Scriptures, but also many saints: Augustine ’ s City of God, John of the Cross and his Ascent of Mount Carmel, Thomas Aquinas and the Summa Theologica, and many more.

Commonly it was believed that in ' Ayyavazhi possessions ', the possessed person being in the Padmasana posture simply utters or speaks to the audience instead of standing and dancing, as now is the practice.

" We recognise the ultimate validity of the criticisms leveled against us ," responded lead singer Martin Smith, " and we feel as a band that this just speaks to the spiritual and intellectual maturity of our listening audience and Christians in general, for that matter.

Firstly, a prologue is at once the text which is spoken, the actor who speaks that text, and the performance given by the actor in speaking.

The Dilbert phenomenon accepts — and perversely eggs on — many negative aspects of corporate existence as unchangeable facets of human nature ... As Xerox managers grasped, Dilbert speaks to some very real work experiences while simultaneously eroding inclinations to fight for better working conditions.

Diderot's Essais sur la peinture was described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as " a magnificent work, which speaks even more helpfully to the poet than to the painter, though to the painter too it is as a blazing torch.

The Qur ' an also speaks of Jesus's disciples but does not mention their names, instead referring to them as " helpers to the work of God ".

Idle's work in Python is often characterised by an obsession with language and communication: many of his characters have verbal peculiarities, such as the man who speaks in anagrams, the man who says words in the wrong order, and the butcher who alternates between rudeness and politeness every time he speaks.

He also mentions the invention of the printing press, when the bookmaker near the beginning of the work speaks of " the German pest.

Derrida was familiar with the work of Marshall McLuhan, and since his early 1967 writings ( Of Grammatology, Speech and Phenomena ), he speaks of language as a " medium ," of phonetic writing as " the medium of the great metaphysical, scientific, technical, and economic adventure of the West.

Similarly, the Old English poem Seafarer speaks of the high stone walls that were the work of giants.

Van Vliet's biographer Mike Barnes speaks of " revamping work built on skeletal ideas and fragments that would have mouldered away in the vaults had they not been exhumed and transformed into full-blown, totally convincing new material.

In the Silvae, Statius speaks of his extensive work in polishing and revising the Thebaid and his public recitations of the poem.

Homer, the author of the oldest known work of European literature, speaks only of one Gorgon, whose head is represented in the Iliad as fixed in the centre of the aegis of Athena:

Jerry speaks with several other pro athletes, some of whom have read his earlier mission statement and respect his work with Tidwell.

* The character Pietro Cardinal Bembo also features prominently in Baldassare Castiglione's work The Book of the Courtier where he speaks about the nature of " Platonic " love.

The Catholic position, according to Augustine, was ex opere operato — from the work having been worked ; in other words, that the validity of the sacrament depends upon the holiness of God, the minister being a mere instrument of God's work, so that any priest or bishop, even one in a state of mortal sin, who speaks the formula of the sacrament with valid matter and the intent of causing the sacrament to occur acts validly.

The unidentified narrator speaks in the first person throughout the work, posing as an autobiography.

As Bush speaks, members of Congress tell CNN that during private briefings with senior administration officials, they were told that the administration had enough evidence that it was " confident " the attacks are the work of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist network.

Susan is a successful career woman, speaks French fluently, and takes her work life very seriously.

Generally, he speaks as if we had a direct consciousness of mind as distinct from body, though, in the posthumous work on Moral Philosophy, he expressly states that we know mind as we know body " by qualities immediately perceived though the substance of both be unknown ( bk.

His second book was a translation of a work of French astronomer Gérard de Vaucouleurs ( Moore speaks fluent French ).

Hecataeus ' work, especially the Genealogiai, shows a marked scepticism of oral history, opening with " Hecataeus of Miletus thus speaks: I write what I deem true ; for the stories of the Greeks are manifold and seem to me ridiculous.

Of northern Europe his knowledge was imperfect, but he speaks of a great bay (" Codanus sinus ") to the north of Germany, among whose many islands was one, " Codanovia ," of pre-eminent size ; this name reappears in Pliny the Elder's work as Scatinavia.

" Their gesture toward a literal border crossing, from the Caribbean to Canada, speaks to the increasingly profound engagement with the idea of her own and others ’ shifting locations, both literal and theoretical, evident in Brand's work.

He gives frequent readings from his work and speaks at writers ' conferences.

* Lilley speaks about his work as Chair of the Globalisation and Global Poverty policy group Clare Politics