I am rapt that Dr Cullen and the Government have now agreed to index those payments. The behaviour of animals in captivity was explained, as the students listened in rapt attention. I took my cricketing cues from a television documentary on Ian Botham on Sunday night which held a whole pub in rapt attention.Ībout 800 children drawn from various schools listened in rapt attention and went home with material on traffic rules and regulations. The way she moved demanded my rapt attention while her eyes kept me completely mesmerized. He listened with rapt, amused attention to what I told him about the role of LSD in his Nobel Prize-winning discovery. I was rapt to hear a voice of reason in the debate over our Country's direction. Others were, briefly, inattentive, but generally we were well behaved and gave Old Dutch our rapt attention.
His rapt audience, 16 Indian cricket players in blue blazers, chortled in approval, and later took turns to pump the general's hand. The Sheldonian, recently refurbished, was packed with a refreshingly young audience, which remained rapt throughout. 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. I found a stack of Architectural Forum magazines from 1958-1961, and spent half an hour on the floor, rapt. When I lectured at a skeptics meeting in Dublin in mid-October, this photo of my rapt audience was snapped.
The shortness of her set was perhaps fortunate, as Tunstall left a rapt audience wanting more. Many people were rapt and stayed for the whole hour before it looped around. In later years public demand saw him travelling the length and breadth of the country to deliver his budget speeches to rapt audiences. Two interjections from the rapt audience render the visiting 28-year-old former pupil particularly speechless. She stood, rapt, saturated in melodic emotion, more affected by it than she could have believed.īut, Newman points out, the personalities and relationships that keep audiences rapt are not neglected.Īdults are rapt and absorbed pupils, far more dedicated students than are most kids. The God whom Paul found was not rapt with pleasure when looking on people observing the Law, as the Pharisees would have expected. 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.Ī successful dialogue can be conducted only if we listen to each other with rapt attention so that we can understand each other.īut though this suggests how little Gabriel understands his wife's rapt attention, we do not need to know that in this sequence. With rapt fascination I watched the ritualized escape attempt and re-entrapment of the hero every week. Guests watched in rapt attention as the models showcased garments from Anand's designer collection. Through it all, Wetterling is rapt, alternately nodding with empathy and jotting down notes on a legal pad in her lap. Ranged before the exultant children's minister was a rapt host of 700 local officials who are extending her childcare empire across the country.īob Schulz announces this in late January to a rapt crowd of 200 gathered in an auditorium in Crystal City, Virginia. While the two of us waited for the meeting to start, I sat rapt as Duncan discoursed on the origins of class society. Given all this I was rapt to sign a two-year deal with the club earlier this week. 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. He was so utterly rapt in the man that he would tickle the peter for him without compunction.īut after they have been here a while and have tasted Australian lamb a few times they are rapt.īoth groups said they were rapt with the grant, which they were working towards for seven years. Well, this was just the introduction with which he hooked children and got them listening in rapt attention to his lecture.īecause we are all Canadians, and therefore painfully polite, he mistakes our bemused muteness for rapt attention.Ī sampling of the Egyptian diet draws the rapt attention of a whole family. The pathos in the play struck the small group, which watched it with rapt attention.Ī hush settled over the crowd and she spoke into rapt silence, no longer being viewed as the one on trial.