They listen attentively as the guide at the Manarat Al Saadiyat, a 15,400 square-meter, or 165,800 square-foot, arts and culture space, explains the Saadiyat story: a $27 billion development project featuring three "starchitect" museums: the Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Zayed National Museum by Norman Foster and the Frank Gehry-rendered Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
Sitting on the bus's open upper deck, wearing chinos and a checked shirt, the sixty-six-year-old actor listened attentively as the guide, a small Japanese-American woman shaded by a large black sun hat, drew everyone's attention to the first attraction: the Gray Line offices across the street.
Unlike at the theater, there is no fourth wall in tour guiding, and guides will watch you just as attentively as you watch them.
The young soldiers moved in a close group through the museum, listening attentively to a Russian‐language translation of the guide's description of weapons, photographs and battlefield diagrams of the epic desert struggle between Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery 28 years ago, simultaneous with the bloody siege of Stalingrad in their own country.
Human movement can be guided automatically (implicit control) or attentively (explicit control).
Within the department, he said, "individual programs are reluctant to get high-level help" from senior officials such as Koonin, who might guide them to partner with others at DOE. Chu, listening attentively, raised no objects to Koonin's critique.
She listened attentively.
Her students listened attentively.
Braun listened attentively.
Quietly, attentively, reading.
The students nodded attentively.
