Sentence examples for and listened with a from inspiring English sources

Bogdan sat and listened with a general grin that suggested that he was interested but not prying.

"Disraeli ceased to argue the point, and listened with a quiet half-sarcastic smile, evidently quite satisfied in his own mind that a man who could make great speeches must make them with the desire of obtaining fame".

Meanwhile, in the backwoods, Rasmus's parents raised a glass to their absent son and listened with a poignant mixture of anxiety and distaste to reports of a new disease scything down homosexuals in the big city.

Once, by the side of an Umbrian road, he preached to the local birds, which are said to have gathered around him quietly and listened with a look of understanding, and then chastised himself for not having thought to preach to them sooner.

There is one simple thing you can do: take a deep breath, remain calm and listen with a curious mind.

His cheeks and neck tend to flush when he is angry or stressed, but he generally cultivates an affable, regular-guy air, and listens with a tilted head, genuinely curious.

He spoke of Mr. Stevens's "love and respect" for the people of North Africa and the Middle East, of his penchant for "walking the streets of the cities where he worked, tasting the local food, meeting as many people as he could, speaking Arabic and listening with a broad smile".

It had also lost another plane, flight 175, a Boeing 767 from Boston to LA. Dismay Across the US, passengers queuing for flights and relatives waiting to meet arriving planes stood in airport lobbies staring at the arrival and departure monitors and listening with a growing sense of bewilderment and dismay to the announcements over the loudspeakers.

That's blasphemy to Schwab, who stays calm and listens with a diplomat's skill.

Not only did your personal gesture and act of kindness go noticed by this man who deserves it from the world, your act of sharing it inspires everyone to notice a little bit more, linger a bit longer and listen with a more empathetic heart.

MI involves empathic questioning and listening, with a view to the development of discrepancy between alcohol use and other goals and values and the eliciting of personalised statements about change.