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attentive
«Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attentive, break open, broken-down, convey, done with, God damn, infinitive, infinitives, literate, more or less, Open and, patois, proofs, purist, purists, smoothness, split, syntax, talk down, the Swiss, velvety, vernacular, wide-open
«Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.»
«Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| About:
Confidence,
Mankind
| Keywords:
attentive, confidences, efface, effaced, effaces, effacing, recipients, self-effacing
«O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I w»
«One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
| Keywords:
aided, aiding, AIDS, attentive, Good Wives, hearing, hearings, hearing aids, man and wife, wife
«The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of th»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Jealousy
| Keywords:
attentive, beyond doubt, deprive, instances, least resistance, oppressions, rulers