Sentence examples for willing listener from inspiring English sources

I was a willing listener.

This perky youngster finds Charlie to be a willing listener for reasons that are deeply personal.

The museum's ornithologist Frank Chapman found a willing listener in President Roosevelt, who, in 1903, created the nation's first bird reservation on Pelican Island in Florida.

Demands for a wider range of state-funded religious schools found a willing listener in the previous prime minister, Tony Blair.

Finally, the Haggler found a polite and willing listener in Jim Woodcock, executive vice president of Display Pack, based in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ray's music envelops the willing listener in a glorious ritualistic expression of the sweet and bitter mysteries of life without the coercion, hypocrisy or intolerance that is so frequently a part of organized religion.

"Telemarketers can be more confident the people they reach will be willing listeners".

They have found willing listeners in Congress, as politicians are worried that media consolidation will result in fewer outlets for them to reach their constituents.California's governor, Gray Davis, has spent the past few months bullying energy firms into renegotiating long-term electricity contracts that Mr Davis signed when prices were high.

Careers fairs are a good source of willing listeners.

But when I'm the perceptive, insightful speaker, how strange that somehow I can't find willing listeners.

His ideas may win more willing listeners now that America's easy self-confidence has vanished along with the long economic boom of the 1990s.