He had won some support in a tough audience.

For others, however, the rationale has more to do with pleasing a tough audience.

Well, just a bit; a group of 13-year-olds is a tough audience.

"I think that's the toughest audience I've ever played to."

They have two children, whom Fletcher calls his first, most important, and toughest audience.

"This is a much tougher audience to get through to," he said.

So how do you grab the attention of this tough audience?

Thank goodness I'd brought visual aids, because he was turning into a tough audience.

But they turned out to be a tough audience.

"This is a very tough audience," he said of teenagers as the session ended.