It repays your attentiveness with its own every time.
I was struck by the rapt attentiveness with which his "family" hung on his every word.
That is less because of its large selection of excellent breads than the attentiveness with which almost everything else there is prepared and served.
But he persists, mixing doting attentiveness with maddening aloofness, until Una, tired of watching her friends get all the erotic action, falls for him.
When she watched Bella's rehearsals with derision, or when she dismissed Bella's attentiveness with unseeing eyes, was she refraining from doing harm, or was she, familiar with conquest and surrender, relishing her power?
What makes The Return (Viking) outstanding, though, is not its highly charged subject matter but its subtle and ingenious structure, and the patient attentiveness with which Matar observes and listens.
But the attentiveness with which Mr. Wheater gazed at the dancers portraying his children and the careful way in which he reached his hands toward them implied that this patriarch was loving as well as strong.
We see it in the compassionate attentiveness with which he examines the murder victim's body; it's there in the careful grasp with which he caresses the first major suspect; it's present most tentatively in the restrained touch with which he endeavours to comfort the grieving widow.
Female bellbirds increased the length of on- and off-bouts and thereby reduced parental activity, but did not increase their total incubation attentiveness with increased predation risk.
Empathy requires openness to cultural differences, including understanding folk beliefs, the role played by the patient's family in his or her life, listening with attentiveness (including when a patient has an interpreter), and exploring how patients use alternative medical treatments or home remedies (Mull 1993).
