Inviting him into her carriage for the journey to London, she pleaded her husband's case for three hours to her captive listener.
You're not there for a free chat session with a captive listener.
But maturation for maturation's sake rarely succeeds, especially when a so-called "grown-up album" lacks the hooks or cohesive through-line to hold listeners captive.
More accurately, this astonishing music made its listeners slower: captive to a different and stretched-out time scheme.
But in my own career as a pop star, which has always taken place exclusively inside my head, I am blessed with the voice of Johnny Cash: not sweet, not beautiful, but with the tone of command, so listeners are held captive even when they are already held captive, in Folsom prison.
India, he assured his young listener, Gandhy, was "a captive market to sell frames".
Even though the speech was given to a captive audience in Mekele, the clear impression that is created for the listener is that the people of Tigray will be doing the winnowing of the useless "chaff" from the valuable "wheat".
Captive populations are increasing.
