The other men in the courtyard listened attentively, picking at the grapes, almonds and slices of melon laid before them.
Furthermore, we observe that the Dionysiac artists14 often play their parts in the theatres in a listless, dispirited, and inaccurate way when they are by themselves; but when there is rivalry and competition with another company, then they apply not only themselves but their instruments more attentively, picking their strings and tuning them and playing their flutes in more exact harmony.
Similarly, another Danish sound artist, Peter Kirkegaard, in a soundscape called Icefalls from 2013 forces us to listen attentively, to pick up all the vibrations, depths and heights, of pressing time, as the ice (recorded in Greenland), falls.
My father listened attentively but looked skeptical as we picked our way among the dusty paths and walkways, the giant inward-sloping walls, the heaps of gray stones rising out of patches of yellowed grass.
In warehouse operations, picking must be analyzed attentively which is widely studied in literature for minimizing service time levels because of its close relation to the higher costs.
If her evolution from globe-trotting adventuress to financial sophisticate seems a bit odd, consider this: In both roles, she hangs out with reassuring mentors, picks their brains, listens attentively to their answers and can draw smart conclusions.
She and her fellow judges, she will say in a lecture entitled Translumination or travesty?: The Passage into English, "all wanted to move out across the map of the world and listen in to many voices on wavelengths our systems don't pick up, in this country, very attentively".
I think I'll pick up the phone and make a few calls, and listen a bit more attentively to the birds.
Unlike in driving, viewers can choose how attentively they watch a film; Thomson acknowledges as much in his intro, loftily congratulating readers for having the inclination to pick up his book.
Braun listened attentively.
She listened attentively.
