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Attentive

adjective

(often followed by 'to') giving care or attention. "The nurse was attentive to her patient" , "An attentive suitor"

Taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention. Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful. "So heedful a writer" , "Heedful of what they were doing"

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"Attentive" Quotes from Famous Books

... statement he blushed as red as a geranium; he looked at Dolly Trotter in an imploring manner, who looked at him, and who presently went away from his sister's carriage bursting with laughter. After making the above statement to his wife, Raikes was particularly polite and attentive to her, and did not leave her side; nor would he consent to her leaving the carriage. There were all sorts of vulgar people about: she would be jostled in the crowd: she could not bear the smell of the ...

— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various

... would seem that attention is a necessary condition of prayer. It is written (John 4:24): "God is a spirit, and they that adore Him must adore Him in spirit and in truth." But prayer is not in spirit unless it be attentive. Therefore attention is ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... not crowned with success, the memories failed to recover themselves. The crowd waited, attentive, as may be supposed. Suddenly the ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... and flatter her. He had wound the black stuff that he had bought three days before so cleverly round his slim body that he seemed no fatter than a lacquered hairpin. The cynical flattery of this nineteen-year-old Jew, the plunging admiration which Duval breathed at her side, the attentive look in the bright eyes of the Commandant Dormans, who had come near them and stood before her, filled her with joy. She looked about her, bright rat, tiny and enormous in her own sight, aware now of her outer, now ...

— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold

... to California, where she was hospitably entertained, and shown the sights of several vast neighborhoods. She peeped into the Chinese quarter at San Francisco, and visited the Yosemite Valley. Attentive young men strewed her path with flowers and candy. Young women vowed her eternal devotion. She came into touch with the intimate problems of the most wonderful social organism the world has ever seen, and was confronted with stupendous works of nature and illimitable solitudes wherein ...

— Septimus • William J. Locke

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