vidience

Example Sentences

• "During the season of my second visit, the receipts of Brigham’s theater averaged eight hundred dollars per night; and one evening they reached thirteen hundred dollars. Mrs. Julia Dean Cooper was filling a long star engagement at two hundred dollars per night. At first she found the audiences, or as Gail Hamilton would call them, the vidiences, curiously fresh and inexperienced."
• "There was not even a referee, no seconds, no bottle-holder—barring one of the combatants—no reporters, no audience, not even a vidience."
• "It is very easy to see what a help to a vidience the caste can be, especially in some very heavy drama or costume play, which requires close attention to understand."
• "Mr. A. J. Eickhoff has coined us a new word, Vidience, designating a body of persons who “hear” by means of sight."
• "Years ago I saw Mr. Cohan in an American-flag-song-and-dance-show called “The Yankee Prince.” I found it a colossal bore. However, the house was jammed to the last inch, and apparently the audience or vidience loved it. […] With reference to the word vidience, which, at the suggestion of Mr. John M. Shedd, I advocated in a recent number of this magazine, I am surprised to learn from the Chicago News of April 29 that “the word optience for a movie assemblage is already in general use, in the Middle West at least.” […] R. H. Pitt, editor of The Religious Herald, Richmond, Va., claims priority over Mr. John M. Shedd for the coinage of the word vidience."
• "Among the related subjects discussed were: the economic struggle of the artist for survival in a world crisis; the fight against censorship; the repression of the Negro; the freedom enjoyed by artists in the Soviet Union; the boycott of the Nazi Olympic art exhibitions; organization of artists; the social basis of art; race and art; the artist in search of a vidience; ways to reach wider publics; art museums and the living artist; present-day tendencies in American art; art in Italy and Germany under fascism; and permanent federal art projects."