Because we are all Canadians, and therefore painfully polite, he mistakes our bemused muteness for rapt attention. |
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Well, this was just the introduction with which he hooked children and got them listening in rapt attention to his lecture. |
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A hush settled over the crowd and she spoke into rapt silence, no longer being viewed as the one on trial. |
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The pathos in the play struck the small group, which watched it with rapt attention. |
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The way she moved demanded my rapt attention while her eyes kept me completely mesmerized. |
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He listened with rapt, amused attention to what I told him about the role of LSD in his Nobel Prize-winning discovery. |
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Others were, briefly, inattentive, but generally we were well behaved and gave Old Dutch our rapt attention. |
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Guests watched in rapt attention as the models showcased garments from Anand's designer collection. |
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With rapt fascination I watched the ritualized escape attempt and re-entrapment of the hero every week. |
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The world depicted is a fascinating one, and we gaze upon it with rapt attention, even as the disquieting mood of the film keeps us ill at ease. |
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A successful dialogue can be conducted only if we listen to each other with rapt attention so that we can understand each other. |
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Given all this I was rapt to sign a two-year deal with the club earlier this week. |
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But though this suggests how little Gabriel understands his wife's rapt attention, we do not need to know that in this sequence. |
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But, Newman points out, the personalities and relationships that keep audiences rapt are not neglected. |
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The Sheldonian, recently refurbished, was packed with a refreshingly young audience, which remained rapt throughout. |
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The behaviour of animals in captivity was explained, as the students listened in rapt attention. |
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I found a stack of Architectural Forum magazines from 1958-1961, and spent half an hour on the floor, rapt. |
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When I lectured at a skeptics meeting in Dublin in mid-October, this photo of my rapt audience was snapped. |
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The shortness of her set was perhaps fortunate, as Tunstall left a rapt audience wanting more. |
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Many people were rapt and stayed for the whole hour before it looped around. |
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In later years public demand saw him travelling the length and breadth of the country to deliver his budget speeches to rapt audiences. |
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Two interjections from the rapt audience render the visiting 28-year-old former pupil particularly speechless. |
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Adults are rapt and absorbed pupils, far more dedicated students than are most kids. |
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I am rapt that Dr Cullen and the Government have now agreed to index those payments. |
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While the two of us waited for the meeting to start, I sat rapt as Duncan discoursed on the origins of class society. |
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Ranged before the exultant children's minister was a rapt host of 700 local officials who are extending her childcare empire across the country. |
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Through it all, Wetterling is rapt, alternately nodding with empathy and jotting down notes on a legal pad in her lap. |
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I was rapt to hear a voice of reason in the debate over our Country's direction. |
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This is a superstitious, heavily Catholicized region where rapt attention is paid the priests who hold court and scare the locals. |
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But after they have been here a while and have tasted Australian lamb a few times they are rapt. |
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Both groups said they were rapt with the grant, which they were working towards for seven years. |
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The God whom Paul found was not rapt with pleasure when looking on people observing the Law, as the Pharisees would have expected. |
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She stood, rapt, saturated in melodic emotion, more affected by it than she could have believed. |
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It was also reported that you spent the earlier part of the afternoon singing for your preschool mates, who stood in rapt attention around you. |
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A sampling of the Egyptian diet draws the rapt attention of a whole family. |
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He was so utterly rapt in the man that he would tickle the peter for him without compunction. |
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About 800 children drawn from various schools listened in rapt attention and went home with material on traffic rules and regulations. |
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His rapt audience, 16 Indian cricket players in blue blazers, chortled in approval, and later took turns to pump the general's hand. |
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Bob Schulz announces this in late January to a rapt crowd of 200 gathered in an auditorium in Crystal City, Virginia. |
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I took my cricketing cues from a television documentary on Ian Botham on Sunday night which held a whole pub in rapt attention. |
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Jupiter is jovial, Venus rapt and serene, but Mercury could do with a bit more diablerie and the final Neptune a better sense of the ethereal. |
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Golden Age-of-TV evangelists prate on about which glorified soap operas are most deserving of our rapt attention. |
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Then, as everyone stared at the old besom, the rapt silence was broken by the rolling thunder of a single cannon, setting the seabirds to wheeling and shrieking. |
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In front of rapt audiences he would burn his skin with acid and then anoint the wounds with his wonder-jelly, pointing to earlier scars Vaseline had healed. |
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The acoustic chanteuse may be the only introvert in coke-bottle glasses whose helium-laced voice can command such rapt attention from a punk bar crowd. |
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The band used this simple setup to corral the crowd into rapt attention. |
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The owner of one stall enthused about the rich tradition of cheesemaking he'd inherited, along with his flock of sheep, to a crocodile of rapt schoolchildren. |
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Seven of us sit around the bar table rapt, trying not to geek out over the fact that we're having a beer with fark.com's one and only Mustard Man. |
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Taberah was reading the bilingual dictionary with rapt concentration. |
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Perhaps no modem-day newspaper war has kept industry observers as rapt as the down-and-dirty scrap between MediaNews Group's Denver Past and E.W. Scripps' Rocky Mountain News. |
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Mr. Speaker, I listened with rapt attention as the chronicled the history of pecuniary matters in parts of Canada. |
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Her eyes are warm and alive, as she tells her stories to a rapt audience. |
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The audience is rapt, breaking several times into appreciative applause. |
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Marie Turgeon told stories to a rapt group of kindergarten pupils, provoking gales of laughter. |
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Her face is rapt and absorbed in the mental and physical effort of painting. |
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Surfers are like farmers or hunters in their rapt absorption in nature's vicinal habits and vagaries. |
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Great singing by Elena Vassilieva in this long and scabrous monologue from Le rapt de Perséphone. |
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Bill, roguish but engaging and relaxed, held the crowd rapt. |
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Chicago is a city with a rich musical tradition in hip-hop, and Lollapalooza's diverse audience insures an audience with rapt attention. |
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The girls are either rapt with excitement or trying to escape an unseen calamity. |
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When he teaches there is a magnetic smiling aura that charms people, and the listeners listen with rapt attention. |
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Time, on those occasions, would disappear and he was often rapt in ecstasy. |
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Ali walked up and hugged Gil, and the pair discussed music and racism and current events before a rapt audience. |
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The singer's younger daughter, Madhusree, who had been a rapt listener during her father's recitals till this year, chose to sit on the stage and sing with her older friends. |
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The journalist did not exit from productions at intermission but stayed to observe a rapt audience, most of whom had never before seen a drama or comedy of any kind. |
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Jimmy Hamilton, a boyish man who celebrated his 80th birthday the previous day, is recounting to me a tale of bravery from the middle years of the last century and I'm rapt. |
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The church was full, and everyone listened in rapt attention. |
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A group of Whitehall officials are sitting listening with rapt attention to an account of the importance of scone-making for a group of three-year-olds. |
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Clinching the final question in the quiz that once again held a packed auditorium to rapt attention, the schoolboys from Delhi cycled away with their hoard of prizes. |
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Well, we all had headsets on, and obviously everyone was extremely quiet and solemn and trying to, with rapt attention, get everything they could out of the tape. |
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The tone of the dance was by turns rapt, jubilant, and possessed. |
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From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove. |
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An Evans session at a night club had an almost reverential air, as the rapt audience leaned forward to catch every delicate note, each piquant voicing that distinguished a refinement unique in jazz. |
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Tom is in rapt communion with his police car, lying on his stomach, pushing it round and round, making nee-naw noises. |
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He was known to talk to himself, a habit that began during his childhood when he would smile in rapt conversation with invisible companions. |
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He started back two or three paces, rapt out a dozen interjectural oaths, and asked what the devil had brought you here? |
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He is going to be sorely missed, although I am sure we will listen to his successor in this Chamber with the same rapt attention with which we have listened to him. |
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It's here that The Duke of Burgundy strikes an innovative note: the film is set in a fantastical world populated only by women, all of whom are rapt attendees of drolly dull entomology lectures. |
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Nashman's warm-hearted narration, Cardy's expressive music, Moore's choreography and Lundy's images held the audience rapt in Anderson's magical world where hope and love can dispel the icy darkness. |
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Lynn Harrell's appealing way of reaching out to an audience has captured rapt listeners not only at the world's famed concert halls, but also at the Grammys, where showbiz glitterati marveled at his artistry. |
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Sue Johnston, the acclaimed actor who formerly starred in the Liverpool soap opera Brookside, a long-term supporter of the Hillsborough families, read lyrics from the Beatles song In My Life to a rapt reception. |
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His last chapter, describing how a subway busker reduces a crowd of scurrying New Yorkers to rapt silence with a Bach violin sonata, is an appropriate image for our times, a sign that classical music does indeed still matter. |
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Nothing was happening, but they were still rapt. |
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Eva Clarke continues the story of her mother's survival, and her own birth, to a rapt young audience, after which we drive through late winter sun to Eva's home in Cambridge, to which her mother recently moved from Cardiff. |
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Nor can we tell whether his rapt musing on unsucked teats and fair apples is prompted by the naked woman he is gazing at. |
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The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat. |
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Having listened with rapt attention to his story, the Phaeacians, who are skilled mariners, agree to help Odysseus get home. |
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Were the imposing, expansive trees in the park surrounding the youth hostel to begin recounting stories of the past, the guests seated on the benches and around the garden barbecue would listen with awe and rapt attention. |
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He flung his dime at a newsboy, got his Express, propped his back against the truck, and was at once rapt in the account of his Waterloo, as expanded by the ingenious press. |
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His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to have some wood-demon for a son-in-law, and, perchance, a troop of goblin grandchildren. |
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They listened to him in rapt silence, drinking in his every word. |
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