Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain has taken advantage of the I.R.A.'s softening by attentively engaging its political arm, Sinn Fein.
At Turku's Sibelius museum, a soberly engaged audience listened attentively to music composed by robots.
Here, we used a dual-task paradigm [4], [5] to examine whether the temporal contrast sensitivity for a peripheral drifting grating is altered when observers are attentively engaged in the central letter recognition task.
For example, in some of the locality meetings we observed, individuals who had the flexibility to attend were listening attentively to discussions without engaging in overt dialogue.
The specific elements of socioemotional communication may include greeting the patient in a friendly way, addressing the patient by name, engaging in small talk, being friendly, and listening attentively.
We addressed this in a number of ways, including attentively constructing the groups to include girls living close to each other, engaging the community to encourage family support for girls' participation, and emphasising flexibility in terms of scheduling meetings and other activities.
As about 100 citizens listened attentively on a freezing night, the candidates mixed banal calls for "greater transparency," "building relationships" and "engaging in dialogue" with Mr. Sotomayor's well-rehearsed staccato refrains of "This election is about you!" and, most relevant, with their collective immersion in the weeds of the ward.
The objective of this analysis was to identify, primarily within individual subjects, the network of brain areas that was engaged as a person listened attentively to the pieces of music and experienced memories, mental images, and emotions in response to those pieces of music.
Alexander Apsis Fine Arts L.L.C. is nearby, on Fifth Avenue, and Mr. Apsis is a Via Quadronno regular, leaning attentively over its wooden tables to engage in conversation.
Even taking into account that gestures are easily (and too often) falsified, especially among young musicians, these players attentively watched for cues from Mr. Perlman and one another and seemed genuinely engaged in the give and take.
They conferred here for four days, listened attentively to an imposing series of high-quality addresses delivered by their peers, and engaged in a large number of useful private talks.
