Marketers are suckers for jargon-spouting consultants, and Warden--with his talk of parallel attacks and rules of engagement--has found a rapt audience.

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He had a rapt audience for this first public appearance at Lambeth Palace, but future press conferences might not be quite so easy.

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The next morning, Biden is in front of another rapt audience at a Cedar Rapids coffee shop.

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November marked the third annual Boring Conference in East London, where speakers delivered PowerPoint presentations on such topics as toast yes, toast and a discontinued portable keyboard, to a sold-out audience of about 500 rapt attendees.

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The custom-made "Metric Mystery" board is divided into a grid of 36 squares, Brendon told his rapt audience.

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The audience is rapt as they listen to Denning, a former World Bank program director who received international recognition for his successful transformation of the old-school, decentralized, multi-cultural lending international agency in the 90s.

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