Sentence examples for Attentive listener from inspiring English sources

An attentive listener could hear, above the sound of old blues, listening-party talk: "I invited all these people, and now I'm, like, who's here?" "I'm so sorry to be asking this, but my editor wants a few grafs".

1] Listen- To be a successful mentor, you must be an attentive listener.

A hearing impediment, the result of childhood mumps, made him an especially attentive listener.

He spoke softly, and for five hours proved an attentive listener to representatives of both pro- and anti-Lisbon arguments.

He was a gentle, enlightened man, an attentive listener - of exquisite manners - who loved literature and music.

He is an attentive listener, and the sincerity of his concern for the Syrian people is evident.

Attentive listeners might presume that Mr. Daschle would want to see those destructive cuts repealed, but he has so far remained coyly silent.

Attentive listeners came to realize that when Mr. Dole called someone "a good person," that person was usually on his way out.

Attentive listeners to the thank-you speech that Oscar night might have heard a name of a man that sounded like that of a superhero or his alter ego: Thom Powers, organizer of Toronto's documentary section.

Attentive listeners like to dialogue about Bruckner these days, chewing on either the problematic aspects of the music itself or on the unpleasant associations with German nationalism that accrued to the music, even during the composer's own lifetime.

This first concert very nearly filled Tully Hall with knowing and attentive listeners.