In this case, until the punch-line, the audience generally assumes that the woman is giving the orders to the man.

The audience would assume he/she were looking at something else.

Indeed, the audience on opening night assumed the play was over when, alas, it wasn't.

The audience may assume that a vote or competition in a programme indicates that it is live.

(He does so without making the audience assume an attitude toward him.)

It was that audiences might assume these were accurate representations of "Triptych."

The elder is shown using animal teeth and throwing them on a towel, which the audience assumes to be a prediction of the future.

Let your audience assume the Cuban missiles still have nuclear warheads.

And that is crucial: as an ethical matter, she must ask what the audience will assume about her televised pronouncements.

She even wrote a letter to Jung-won that the audience could only assume was contained with her feelings for him.