Thayer, who speaks Khmer, has said that he feels more attuned to life in Cambodia than in America.
I think I was also more attuned to what happens in American schools and in classrooms because my older son is now in school.
In California, where cabernet franc is a growing category, many are made in a powerful oaky style that is more attuned to high scores in tastings than to the nightly dinner table.
These are simply pieces in a mosaic; no one would suggest that having grown children in New York necessarily makes a life-tenured judge more attuned to personal liberty "in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions," as the justice wrote in his Texas opinion.
These projects, many of which are documented online at Proyecto CARA (full disclaimer: I'm also co-founder), are often much more interesting than the current exhibits in bigger galleries or museums, often because they are more attuned to artists' needs in the face of systematic institutional inaction. .
In this case, that would probably mean offering a policy agenda more attuned to the ways in which recent Republican economic policy hasn't always delivered for middle-income voters – a health care agenda that promises more to the uninsured, say, or a tax agenda that's more family-friendly than the current Romney proposals.
Moreover, he said, his conservative views on issues including abortion and tax reductions make him more attuned to the voters in the district than Mr. Gentile, whom he dismisses as a "liberal Democrat".
If he ends up choosing a new chief of staff, then, Mr. Obama could opt for someone who may be more attuned to recent shifts in the public's attitude, perhaps a former governor who has executive mindset and doesn't share the experience of his inner circle.
The destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 showed the world just how precarious the situation was, and airlines that had yet to do so are now much more attuned to routing flights in the region's airspace.
According to Right Wing Watch's report on the film, the Nazi analogies fly fast and furious: one interviewee even said that "the American church is slightly more attuned to the rumbling heard in the distance than the German church was in the 30s.
