He absorbs all that is said of him, he contributes in return... but mostly he listens.
He listens closely, Laura Hunt style, as she reads him drafts over the phone.
He tells you honestly where he stands, and he listens closely to other points of view.
When she plays Mendelssohn on a piano in a music store, he listens with enchanted intensity.
He listens but then goes and does things his way - I wish he would listen more.
His producers still remind Barkley in his ear "all the time" not to curse, he said, and he listens.
He listens to her whisper and occasionally nods his head: yes, yes.
He listens his fill, nods, and smiles, then the woman deftly wheels his chair through the crowd and out of the mausoleum.
These days he listens to music, both American pop and traditional Indian.
Things were not much better in foreign policy, something Obama might consider as he listens to proposals to intensify military operations in Afghanistan.
He received the Queen's Gallantry Medal, and as he sits in west London, immaculate and calm, he listens as an unforgettable day is marked.
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Marcus knows why I made the journey, and he listens intently as I describe a recent situation where his service made me, frankly, feel like a criminal.
Samuelson is a good economist and writer, but he listens way too much to his fellow economists and frets obsessively on deficits, balanced budgets and the like.
He films computer screens with no borders, as if putting viewers into the graphic creations, while he listens to his obsessives describe the function and emotional power of their created personae.
He is special, the musicians explain, not merely because of his clarity of vision, authoritative analysis or the mysterious energy of his gestures, but rather because of the way he listens.
This is what Jim Nayder does for a living: He listens to really bad music, much of it sent in to him by listeners of his Annoying Music Show on Chicago Public Radio.
Brosnan appears to be laboring under particular distress, and his expression, as he listens to Streep chanting her woes, is indistinguishable from that of James Bond being ranted at by a deluded villain.
Plumping down at his receptionist's desk, and ignoring his tidy and little-used office, he listens to two businessmen who want to build a cinema but are facing hurdles getting the local authority to seal the project.
If Ryan does not agree with Rage's lyrics, Joe Levy, editor of Billboard magazine, said it is possible that he listens to it for the same reason that he might listen to Led Zeppelin -- for the guitar riffs.
"I think it's a very, very well-done news network, " said media expert and former White House correspondent Porter Bibb of Mediatech Capital Partners in New York, where he listens to a related network, Al Jazeera English, now available in a tiny fraction of U.S. markets.
And he gets advice from people he respects on a variety of issues and he listens very carefully to that advice on those varieties of issues, and then he makes his decisions when he's ready to make them, and talks about them when he's got news to talk about.
He moves to a chair a few feet away, where he watches and listens intently.
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Murrell says he always politely listens but wants to stay private and in control for the time being.
Hugo lives for the clocks, and they for him, and each day he winds and listens to them as though they were each his beating heart.
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