Sentence examples for poor listeners from inspiring English sources

Learners achieve greatly varying levels of success in L2 listening; some are skilled listeners while others often remain poor listeners.

So rap fans must be either very poor listeners or fairly sophisticated ones — much more likely the latter.

The cardinal sin of poor listeners is to hijack the conversation as soon as their interlocutor pauses for breath.

Mr Seth said the new format was particularly damaging for "poor listeners for whom BBC Hindi on shortwave has been their only link to the wider world".

Books themselves are perhaps the first chatbots: long-winded and poor listeners, they nonetheless have the power to make the reader feel known, understood, challenged, spurred to greatness, not alone.

In addition to that, they found them to be unpunctual and poor listeners, but they did find that Italians are easily impressed.

At one meeting, an inmate pointed out that John was a poor listener, a moving cloud of frantic energy.

He had a talent for theatre, Albright notes, and was a poor listener who disliked hearing other people talk.

Where those in favour and those against generally agreed, however, was that she indeed had a reputation for being remote, moody and a poor listener.

But while he's an engaging interviewee, he's a poor listener, either assuming he knows what you're going to ask or telling you what he thinks you should have asked.

One let oneself drift along with it for hours at a time, as if one were gliding down a fresh and limpid river, whose banks were adorned with rich estates and beautiful houses".Churchill was another magnificent talker, perhaps the greatest of the 20th century, but often a poor listener.