Sentence examples for Responsive listener from inspiring English sources

Graceful and lanky, Mr. Chestnut proved himself a responsive listener during Ms. Allen's lightly funky "Our Lady (for Billie Holiday)," which began with an extended piano-and-tap exchange.

When he was feeling well enough, he talked without pause, and the person he talked to the most, because she was always available, was his housekeeper Céleste Albaret, an intelligent and responsive listener.

2. Be a deeply responsive listener who demonstrates you heard what they said, and does not immediately revert the conversation back to yourself.

Aside from their melancholy human expressions, seals are musical, "said to be responsive listeners", especially if the songs are in Gaelic.

Video-observation screening indicated that males seemed to be more attentive and more responsive listeners than females.

These persons are respected and trusted, and have a reputation for being good listeners, responsive to the needs of others, and in control of their own life circumstances [ 41, 42].

At a time when pop listeners seem especially responsive to genre-defying singers like Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards, Antony Heggarty and Björk, it should expose Mr. Bleckmann's mercurial, hard-to-label art to a much wider audience.

If you sense that the listener is not that responsive to the initial mention of your employment situation, back off and move on.

Mindfulness also teaches us to be better listeners by creating dialogues that are responsive rather than reactive.

Specifically, RSs were taught to be: alert, clear spoken, and good listeners; positive and assertive, but not aggressive; responsive to the woman's reasons for reluctance; respectful and culturally sensitive; confident, sincere, and spontaneous in their introduction; and credible, by knowing the objectives of Project DC-HOPE and the activities required for participation.

But in those passages where Schoenberg wanted to clobber listeners with volleys of dizzying, ecstatic sound, Mr. Levine, his responsive musicians and the superb Met choristers delivered the intended knockout.