Sentence examples for attentiveness that from inspiring English sources

Parents of over-fussy babies, or tantrum-prone children, will not be pleased to discover it is their very attentiveness that is making matters worse.

And during a circuit of turns in "Diamonds," Deanna Seay points up a raccourci emphasis with an attentiveness that makes the ballet look newly minted.

Flood-stricken communities have seen visits in recent days from a phalanx of federal officials, who have seemed determined to convey a level of attentiveness that was notably absent after Hurricane Katrina.

Although Shapcott excelled in her earlier incarnation, picking up the Forward prize in 1999 for her third collection, My Life Asleep, and becoming the only poet to win the National Poetry Competition twice, there's a hard-won maturity to her latest poems, coupled with a new and deep attentiveness, that lifts them above anything she has so far written.

Her writing takes nothing for granted, applying itself to the most mundane objects and moments - the act of parking a car, the look of an untidy bedroom or a fashion boutique - with an attentiveness that again and again provides that primal joy of literature: the sense of things being seen afresh.

The notion of guiding a juvenile mind away from a constant diet of "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" might seem heretical to some at Disney, but surely shaping the tastes of the young is a fundamental part of taking care of them, a more benign aspect of the moral attentiveness that makes us inoculate them against disease and teach them not to steal.

True connection, the meeting of minds, and the mastery of networking, of actually being present not just in body but also in attentiveness -- that is an exchange of humanity.

She was accompanied by her father, who carried beneath his shabby frock coat a bowie knife sharpened with great attentiveness earlier that morning so it would plunge as deep as possible into Pemberton's heart".

This requires mindfulness — constant presence of mind, "the attentiveness and hereness that is so essential for real active observation of the world".

You must fight through what you are supposed to think of the work to what it looks like: indeed difficult, and rather weird in its compulsive attentiveness to details that don't add up; they multiply.

I also have very happy memories of my experience as a jury member during the 50th anniversary season, and of the attentiveness and passion that went into the jury's viewing".