It is hard to connect any of this – which is, actually, at the mainstream end of Davis's comedy – with the attentive, open-faced 45-year-old woman, seated carefully on a sofa at the Soho Hotel in London.
This sort of attentive and open stance towards one's own emotions and thoughts allows the individual to still experience emotion, but also to detect emotions early on and stop them from spiraling out of control.
Approach Mother Dough with the same attitude you might give a sushi master — attentive, focused, open.
On the positive side, carriers of the 7R allele might also be more attentive and open to the child's signals if other, interfering stimuli originating from a stressful environment are lacking.
However, as in keeping with the exploratory nature of this approach, we will remain attentive and open to physician accounts of other complex patient groups.
He was an open, attentive, and sincere colleague.
"We all got it that anthrax was not contagious, that life went on," Mr. Preston said with a grin and an open, attentive manner.
Seen today, "Taking Off" seems a natural continuation of the open, attentive, gently satiric style Mr. Forman had developed in his first Czech features: "Black Peter" (1964), "Loves of a Blonde" (1965) and "The Firemen's Ball" (1967).
Assistant District Attorneys expect -- and require -- us to be fully attentive as they open various investigations and present evidence, witnesses and the law.
