Word: rapport
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...feel that I have developed a rapport with the American public," Sokolof says. "They like the fact that a little guy in Omaha is sitting here and taking on Nabisco, a $25 billion corporation. I've had some success, and I've made a lot of money, but compared with Nabisco, I'm a pimple on an elephant's fanny...
Yeltsin's rapport with audiences is as instinctive with socialites in Chicago as it is with construction workers in his native Sverdlovsk. That remarkable skill constitutes a breakthrough in an unwritten, decades-old rule of Soviet politics that inhibits leaders from relating emotionally with their audiences. If a speaker connects, after all, the implication is that the views of the audience count, that persuasion is involved, that the audience, heaven forbid, actually has something to communicate back to the stage. Yeltsin has tapped the desperate yearning of Russians to be taken seriously by their leaders, to be spoken to rather...
...audience may have experienced a healthy does of a capella pleasure, but it did not achieve a capella peace of mind. Although the Callbacks sampled a wide variety of musical styles, their jam lacked consistency. In general, the group established a greater rapport with their audience on those numbers which included humor, such as the Texas-flavored "Good Enough...
Vuke's Great White North accent was a sharp contrast to stodgy Hahvahd rapport. His simple values didn't seem to fit in with the hustle-bustle of the nation's top university. His friendliness and down-to-earth personality were a far cry from the Hobbesian world of urban Boston...
Modern drama, of which Henrik Ibsen is the father, is chiefly concerned with the realistic portrayal of human experience. The viewer must be able to establish a rapport with the characters and their actions. Ibsen himself was so concerned with this point that after the publication of his first successful work, Peer Gynt, he forsook verse for prose, which he identified as more characteristic of actual experience...