Working between a strong-willed mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, and a tenacious chancellor, Joel I. Klein, he seemed more comfortable in a role as deputy mayor for mollification: mediating disputes, calming tensions and endlessly listening.
He was still barely 10 years removed from his rough-and-tumble upbringing in Poland and a bohemian life characterized by endlessly listening to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and endless dreaming of jeans and the existential manna of American films like "Vanishing Point".
It is, on the face of it, just a collection of demos, but its light lyrical touch and cohesive, zealous ideology make it an almost endlessly evocative listen.
Also marvellous is his study of Simon de Monfort, the foremost French general, oxlike, pious, and fearless — a sort of war machine — who, having been instructed to wipe out the heresy, was then forced to listen endlessly to the Pope's scruples about canon law, feudal law, other law.
In his most recent book on aging, Posner argues that old people tend to talk endlessly and rarely listen to others because they "invest less in the creation of human capital and therefore have less to gain from receiving inputs of information from other people".
Reading approaches in his marriage were the exact opposite of those in mine: his wife "loves audiobooks and listens to them endlessly," while "I never listen to audiobooks".
He'd been listening endlessly to CDs and had learned arias parrot-fashion.
To pass the time, he listens endlessly to Elton John, Owl City, Lady Gaga and Mika on his iPhone.
I listened endlessly to what sounded like bar chatter before finally giving up.
He decided to become his own teacher, which he did by listening endlessly to recordings of great tenors -- Caruso, Lauri-Volpi, Pertile, Gigli -- and imitating their stylistic nuances and vocal effects.
