Once, when she returned, she saw from a great distance a standing stone that he had made, and saw that through its fantastic crust, under its tattered mantle, it was possible to see the lineaments of a beautiful woman, a woman with a carved, attentive face, looking up and out.
My boss started with, "So, we've been having a chat …" and I made a thoughtful, attentive face and uncapped a biro before processing the last part of her sentence, which was "... and it's not really working with you here, is it?" What wasn't working?
The picture of her youthful, attentive face brought back my childhood emotions of love, pride, and some stress in having my mother start college after my little sister and I were well into elementary school.
Something about the constant sight of the attentive faces -- hundreds, often thousands, a day, all wearing that strange, slightly goofy smile that celebrity evokes -- persuades them that everything they say is worth chiseling in marble.
Looking at the attentive faces of the men watching Tulp's lesson, your gaze is led irresistibly to the gory skinned arm of the grey corpse whose sinews and bones the anatomist is describing.
It was a strange stage that Trevor Paglen took to, standing against a cartoon forest backdrop in a faux Gothic meeting room that was once a masonic lodge, looking out over a sea of attentive faces, gilded chairs and a plush, red carpet.
"I think," I said to the roomful of attentive faces, "we're going straight back to the dark ages".
Only Club de Hong Kong survives, where punters seeking the mysterious delights of karaoke and ever-so-attentive hostesses face a minimum door charge of HK$2,500-$3,000 (£2,500-$3,000£200-£240
It was moving slowly, and the driver's-side window was wound down, so Eva could see that it was Martha, her hair damp from the drifting snow, her face attentive as she gazed across the green toward the trees by the church.
"It became a truly forgettable presence," said the Rev. Steven J. Yagerman, the rector of All Saints since 1993, whose 14-year-old daughter, Sarah, asks, "Why can't we have a pretty church?" Father Yagerman said houses of worship must be attentive to the face they present to the public.
Mr. Turner and Mr. Murray leaned forward, their arms on the table and faces attentive, like eager students.
