In the new "connection economy," amidst an increasingly crowded marketplace, companies must tell their stories, attune their messages, and operate with genuine authenticity to connect with consumers.
Both descriptions are made real by their spatial precision ("spirals", "longwise"), by their sensory alertness ("sluggish cream", "smoking pith"), and by their music, attuned to the activities described.
Dr. Yajnik said he believes Indians' susceptibility to diabetes may have emerged as their diets changed with rising affluence — and that their bodies, attuned to scarcity, couldn't handle an overload of food.
Leaders have to be able to have their ear attuned to bad news too.
That said, Osborne's speechwriters will have kept their antennae attuned to this week's Labour party conference in Brighton.
Children will be encouraged, though, to think and act like foxes, keeping their senses attuned to the possible presence of rabbits, hedgehogs, waterfowl and other wildlife that might rate high on some creature's marsh menu.
They keep their ears attuned to native intuitions about spelling conventions, semantic nuances, and local sensitivities.
Sadly, Thalberg died a few days after shooting on A Day at the Races had begun, and the Marxes never again worked with a producer as sympathetic to their needs or as attuned to their style of comedy.
Sadly, parents who are distracted by their devices are hardly attuned to their children.
Many women, beyond their middle ages, get attuned to their gender roles and collude with authoritarian men to ensure subordination of younger women in their families.
Muslims today are in general more knowledgeable about their faith, more attuned to its demands, and more assertive about their identity.But which direction does this assertiveness take?
