Sentence examples for open listener from inspiring English sources

I try to be accessible and an open listener.

Being an open listener and participant means you're always a stranger meeting someone new, always an amateur taking notes.

My advice to Mr. Obama: Simply present yourself as a humble, open listener with a genuine interest in peace and the environment.

And his interactions throughout his career with performers from various Asian and Western traditions — including the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, the flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal and the saxophonist and composer John Coltrane — created hybrids that opened listeners' ears to timbres, rhythms and tuning systems that were entirely new to them.

"I knew omitting these things would leave one open to listeners saying, 'Well, it's not like Shakespeare,' " he said.

Mr. Dowd sings in a strangulated croak that will challenge even the most open-minded listener, and his guitar playing alternates skeletal lines with bursts of feedback.

When a song opens, a listener may swear that it's the Who or the Beatles before the voices of these two Japanese women begin to chirp.

You have to applaud the Battles' blueprint, then, but notions of some fictional "ideas Armageddon" aside, the question remains of just how open most listeners are to truly innovative music.

And judging by the enthusiasm that made the band's June album, "Mer de Noms" (Virgin), the highest-charting debut from a rock band in recent memory, such somber explorers open tunnels listeners never tire of visiting.

The producer narrates the life of a late celebrity - Josephine Baker, the tragedian Aeschylus - over some rather dodgy chirpy violin music and then the lines are thrown open for listeners to phone in and guess how the person died.

But the open-minded listener will be rewarded by this feverish fantasia of sound, its inchoate joy and longing bursting through every note.