Bulstrode had also a deferential bending attitude in listening, and an apparently fixed attentiveness in his eyes which made those persons who thought themselves worth hearing infer that he was seeking the utmost improvement from their discourse.
You need no laborious steps to enter upon familiarity with them, and you can earn not only their confidence, but their gratitude, by turning an attentive ear to their discourse.
His skin hung baggily about him, his legs wobbled, and his cheeks were furrowed by the tears so plentifully called forth by the Badger's moving discourse.
Her agitation as they entered the great gallery was too much for any endeavour at discourse; she could only look at her companion.
" The friends were not able to get together for any confidential discourse till all the dancing was over; but then, as they walked about the room arm in arm, Isabella thus explained herself: "I do not wonder at your surprise; and I am really fatigued to death.
While talking to each other, she had observed with some surprise that John Thorpe, who was never in the same part of the house for ten minutes together, was engaged in conversation with General Tilney; and she felt something more than surprise when she thought she could perceive herself the object of their attention and discourse.
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch to nothing more than a short decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could, with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject by a qu
Catherine feared, as she listened to their discourse, that he indulged himself a little too much with the foibles of others.
And you needn't stop to discourse with sympathetic listeners on your way, either.
When I tell you to do a thing I want you to obey me at once and not stand stock-still and discourse about it.
Bud had once spent a month in the metropolis, and a week or two at other times, and he was pleased to discourse to us of what he had seen.
Now,' says I, 'you frog-hearted, language-shy, stiff-necked cross between a Spitzbergen sea cook and a muzzled oyster, you resume where you left off in your discourse on the weather.
Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.
He also wrote many articles on the study of Chinese classical literature and of literary criticism, which were collected into Platitude on Classics, Discourse on Poems as a Vehicle of the Meaning, Miscellaneous Remarks on New Poetry and Highlights of Language and Literature.
In national discourse of Russ, a thread of mistrust began to uncurl, like poison in a water glass.
Time selected the group "for taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths, for the imperfect but essential quest for facts that are central to civil discourse, for speaking up and speaking out.
David Gasca, T witter's product manager for health, tweeted that the company has received more than 230 proposals–spanning issues like misinformation and healthy discourse.
At a time when gender equality has been at the heart of our discourse, many designers made reference to female empowerment in their collections, while others chose to convey women's strength with parades of powerful red lips.
As they have taken a harder line on online discourse, media regulators have made targets of celebrity gossip blogs, ranting rappers and more.
Spielberg will be accused of taking games and their players too seriously and not seriously enough, of pandering and mocking, of just not getting it and not being able to see beyond it — "it" being the voracious protoplasm that has, over the past three or four decades, swallowed up most of our cultural discourse.
