Like every good musician, Mr. Quasthoff is a listener, and obviously he has listened with attention to many singers, among them Frank Sinatra, Lou Rawls and Johnny Cash, whose range comes closest to his own.
And the audience, which had listened with uncommon contemplativeness, gave the performers a long ovation.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the Tribunal has listened with great patience to a very great deal of detail.
Indeed, contemporary adventurers like C. P. E. Bach would have listened with admiration and envy, but not with shock.
I have listened with interest to what the Americans have been saying in the past few days.
At a back-yard barbecue the previous summer, Kendall had listened with a serious face as Bill explained his profession.
Dr. Hart had always enjoyed having David around, and he had listened with unskeptical, uncritical attention to whatever Dr. Hart taught him.
They appear to have listened with only half an ear to what the party leaders, Salmond, Darling, Cameron and Miliband have been saying.
She had listened with growing trepidation as Omar and his father argued late into the night, the elder man telling his son that they were playing with fire.
Over the years, he had listened with slack-jawed disbelief when Helen had explained that her friends Wendy and Terry were postponing vaccinations for little Mandy and Timmo because of studies linking the shots to developmental delays.
