What is "listener"

Usage examples of "listener".

Listeners could picture the years wherein Chardon and Dokey had worked underground from the old shack to tap the real vein of the Aureole Mine.

Ellery resolves the puzzle magnificently, although most listeners probably fell into the trap for the overly clever that Boucher and Manny cunningly built into the story.

He sang a cappella but could fill the great hall and the rooms beyond with his amazing four-octave voice so fully that listeners had to look at him often just to make sure that no choir stood behind him.

On the other hand, our ex cathedra prelections have a strong tendency to run into details which, however interesting they may be to ourselves and a few of our more curious listeners, have nothing in them which will ever be of use to the student as a practitioner.

In his hands the didgeridoo became a living thing, an imprisoned orchestra, an insistent long-distance call to an atavistic past that went beyond music to penetrate to the heart of whatever it was that made its listeners human.

She was a very good listener, even making dreamlet scenes to illustrate what he described.

Erick was a good listener and often put questions which drove Edi to new, deep studies and which excited him so much that he had almost no other thoughts but Rome and Carthage.

With a wave of his hand he swept the clubhouse into a pine-crowned gorge, turning the waiters into a grim posse, and each listener into a blood-stained fugitive, climbing with torn fingers upon the ensanguined rocks.

My mother said the gamelan created in the listener a brain wave beyond all alphas and betas and thetas, a brain wave that paralyzed the normal channels of thought and forced new ones to grow outside them, in the untouched regions of the mind, like parallel blood vessels that form to accommodate a damaged heart.

Some feelings are very difficult to communicate without hurting the listener.

Mace walked to the front while Wulf, Ilka and I remained behind the listeners.

One of the listeners made a remark about Khiva son of Zambul that sent the others off into nervy laughter.

The listener who wore the countenance of Henry Arnaud knew well that Konk Zitz had deliberately tried to cover up a business call.

Not once did I wonder, as she grew louder and louder, if, after all, she was thinking of Krone and his knot of Stasi listeners, to whom our sweet, redemptive passion could have been only fucking.

Speech melody must be processed by the listener in as much as lexical speech melody and intonational speech melody provide part of the semantic content of speech.