Sentence examples for attentive expression from inspiring English sources
"Probably," he said and resumed his attentive expression.
The composer listened with a placid but attentive expression, like a cat watching the street from a windowsill.
Mr. King writes that Leonardo — so attentive to facial expressions and physical gestures — would have "glimpsed little" of this drama in earlier artists' work, which tended to promote a "hushed and reflective mood".
Others -- like the Auxois mare and her aristocratic French owner, both caught in majestic profile, and the bespectacled Lincolnshire breeder hunkered down next to a Portland ram who exactly mirrors his expression of attentive politeness -- suggest that the old saw about pets resembling their owners might hold true for farm animals as well.
Her resting facial expression is curious, attentive, intent.
Not coincidentally, the M.S.B.P. diagnosis flowered at a moment when fretful overparenting was becoming common in the West; psychologists began to worry that some expressions of anxiously attentive mothering might be unhealthy — or even pathological.
The parent is encouraged to become more attentive to the focus of attention of the child, his/her initiation of dialogue, expressions of emotions, rhythm and the child's need of assertion, guidance and protection.
The expressions on their faces were attentive and earnest.
Since neglected rat pups fostered by attentive mothers change their histones and their gene expression, might this happen to people?
"Children born to moms with one of the depressive disorders are at increased risk of being less attentive, more irritable, less likely to form facial expressions," Dr James Betoni, co-author of the book Pregnancy Power, told me.
