Can a speaker reasonably expect his audience to remember anything at all about that big furnace if he has spent only a few seconds describing it?

Old Comedy was a highly topical genre and the playwright expected his audience to be familiar with local identities and issues.

Welles later admitted he had not expected his audience to take the story so literally.

Wilbe seemed to expect his audience to know the geography.

That is the kind of exploit he might well claim after a drink or two, expecting his audience first to gasp, then to roar with laughter.

In part this is a result of Pontius' tendency merely to allude to matters he expected his audience to know.

Busta isn't afraid to break a sweat, and he expects his audience to do the same.

Dodgson clearly expected his audience to know the myth and the actresses, and to ignore the stagecraft.

Modern writers have suggested the details of the battle were so well known that Gildas could have expected his audience to be familiar with them.

It later says, "Maher also expects his audience to have plenty of tolerance for blue humor.