It merely reminds me of her." But at that moment Princess Mary said, "Natasha!" And with difficulty, effort, and stress, like the opening of a door grown rusty on its hinges, a smile appeared on the face with the attentive eyes, and from that opening door came a breath of fragrance which suffused Pierre with a happiness he had long forgotten and of which he had not even been thinking- especially at that moment.
She had grown thin and pale, but that was not what made her unrecognizable; she was unrecognizable at the moment he entered because on that face whose eyes had always shone with a suppressed smile of the joy of life, now when he first entered and glanced at her there was not the least shadow of a smile: only her eyes were kindly attentive and sadly interrogative.
Throughout the whole of this movement, which occupied an hour of time, the trapper had stood apart, leaning on his rifle, with the aged hound slumbering at his feet, a silent but attentive observer of all that passed.
Just as the work was ended the scowling eye of Ishmael's assistant caught a glimpse of the figure of the attentive observer of their movements.
Adam was a willing and
attentive pupil, and followed his motions exactly, missing--or trying to miss--nothing.
for though no one member of the community should be poorer than he was before, yet a democracy might nevertheless change into an oligarchy; if the rich should be more powerful than the poor, and the one too negligent, and the other
attentive: and though these changes are owing to many causes, yet he mentions but one only, that the citizens become poor by luxury, and paying interest-money; as if at first they were all rich, or the greater part of them: but this is not so, but when some of those who have the principal management of public affairs lose their fortunes, they will endeavour to bring about a revolution; but when others do, nothing of consequence will follow, nor when such states do alter is there any more reason for their altering into a democracy than any other.
As a "believer," a critic on the side of the author's presence in his work, Defaux takes on such scholarly sacred cows as Pierre Villey, as well as those among his own contemporaries, whom he dubs the "doubters," who are more
attentive to the gaps and the inconsistencies of the text," than to the continuities of the human presence within it.
Here is a killer example of a well-done 'zine from north of the border, good layout and art,
attentive writing (the editor actually edits?!), cool subjects covered, not overly ambitious, and thick as cold snot.
Reminiscent of occasionally haunting canvases by David Salle, diptychs that juxtapose High and Low Art, the UN Studio prints are characteristically
attentive to surface (not unlike, perhaps entirely by chance, )aintings several decades ago by the artist Audrey Flack).
Air Force Base that hosted this historic diplomatic event, the Institute's
attentive interest is quite understandable.
Some recent studies concerning gay men and sexually transmitted diseases suggest that gay men need to be particularly
attentive during doctor visits.
Many readers of this journal remember an engaging piece we ran in which Tracy discussed why theologians
attentive to the life of the mind and the passions of heart should pray, for forms of worship or spiritual practice, he suggested, do structure our thoughts.
It was
attentive airline employees who first realized he needed scrutiny, and it was vigilant passengers and crew who kept him from detonating his bomb.
The teacher, alone, cannot be effective in teaching unless pupils are challenged and
attentive. The pupil, too, must desire that teachers be successful, by not disrupting nor hindering quality teaching.
