But today everything is O.K". "Probably my attention to this department also allowed him to be more attentive," he said.
I sat across from him in a smaller easy chair, and between us, on a hassock, lay my small, attentive-looking Japanese tape recorder.
My embodied performance of student as highlighted by my notebook and dictaphone, but also my gentle nodding, attentive eye contact, probing questions, reinforced the value of the topic in question, but also his position as the educator, implicitly encouraging the conversation through our mutually collaborative roles.
And I do remember my wife being attentive to that necessity.
Because he never forgot what it is to be needy, my dad was attentive to other people's needs.
Service was attentive — my iced tea was refilled, oh, 879 times before I stopped counting — and friendly, although relentlessly contrite.
"My horse was very handy and attentive to my needs," the winning jockey, Kent Desormeaux, said.
"Most of the reduction is simply because I feel good about doing something I know is good for my body, and the ride home in the evening does help me dissipate any work-related issues from my mind so I can be more attentive to my family".
It pushed me to keep my grades up, my delinquent behavior to a minimum, and others around me happy and attentive to my needs and whims.
Furthermore, family members valued the fact that, when it came to attending to the residents, the professional caregivers showed personalized attention to small details: "They are attentive with my mother, thus when they put her in the chair, they placed a blanket over her knees so that she wouldn't feel the cold" (P.28 Proxy).
