Word: raptness
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...will be primarily interested in its success. He will most likely be loath to tamper with or degrade a brand that has made its reputation by consistently providing quality journalism. The financial consequences of any intervention by Murdoch would simply be too great. Yet the media’s rapt attention on Murdoch’s purchase does serve to highlight a growing fear among journalists and others that high quality, objective news sources will slowly vanish, in this age of new media, for lack of demand. The rise of blogs and news sources tailored to niche audiences, along with...
...into his prepared talk on article 25 of the Pakistani constitution, about non-discrimination before the law. Following in the wake of several fiery speeches proclaiming victory against military interference and exhortations to carry on the good fight, his talk was remarkably tame. Boring even. But the audience was rapt. "In the eyes of the law all citizens are equal. I appreciate that you are struggling for a free and independent judiciary and supremacy of law. Your struggle is unprecedented in the history of Pakistan," he said. "It is the basic responsibility of the courts to protect the fundamental rights...
When Melinda Gates listens, she leans in toward the speaker with rapt concentration, her eyes wide open, drinking in information. If she's visiting high school classrooms, as she was last month in Chicago, she doesn't hesitate to crouch down, in her heels and navy blue pantsuit, to get on eye level with a seated student and patiently ask questions. What she listens for are answers to some of the most vexing questions in public education: What does it take to turn a failing, urban high school into one that prepares students for higher education? How do you engage...
...music teacher who used to look down from her piano and smile in a show of praise. “I think about God going about his business and just now he looked down on me and smiled,” she added. The performer held the audience in rapt attention as she wove together anecdotes from her life and selections from her writings and others’. “This day makes me feel like I am somebody,” she said, using the line both as an expression of her gratitude and as a starting point...
...what he meant when he called himself religious: "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only...