The new film unwinds in one take, lasting ninety minutes, and by some miracle we grow happily accustomed to its rhythm, like children held rapt by a bedtime story.
His last chapter, describing how a subway busker reduces a crowd of scurrying New Yorkers to rapt silence with a Bach violin sonata, is an appropriate image for our times, a sign that classical music does indeed still matter.
The next morning, Biden is in front of another rapt audience at a Cedar Rapids coffee shop.
Barack Obama declared victory in Chicago's Grant Park before a rapt, peaceful crowd, the city's towers twinkling in the distance.
Marketers are suckers for jargon-spouting consultants, and Warden--with his talk of parallel attacks and rules of engagement--has found a rapt audience.
He had a rapt audience for this first public appearance at Lambeth Palace, but future press conferences might not be quite so easy.
They see President Obama's Budget announced "dead on arrival" in Congress, and they see our chancellor deliver his Budget to a rapt Parliament, and they know which model would suit them better.
"In the days before Pampers, you actually got to fold the cloth, you got to put it on, you got to put the safety pin in and I haven't pricked any baby yet, " Mr. Lee told a rapt nation.
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What amazes me is that the real causes of the financial meltdown are being ignored and while there is rapt attention on things that matter a lot only because there is rapt attention on them.
When designing the interior of the structure, the global and award-winning design firm, Rapt Studio, included a level of brand implementation through artistic design that may just be unmatched by any other large tech company in the world, including murals by street artist El Mac and tattoo artist Mike Giant.
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But Audubon told his share of whoppers too: in a serious paper he described to rapt British scientists how American rattlesnakes could hop from tree to tree after their prey a claim that was later retracted.
In one small school, Ebyon, 200 children sit rapt before young women teachers in a series of small, ill-lit rooms each morning.
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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.
The Super Bowl is the sports world's biggest amateur day, and if you're a hard-core fan who's spent all season paying rapt attention, you will be chagrined to discover you're suddenly in a room with chattering dilettantes, asking if that guy on the screen is really named Ochocinco.
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But Microsoft knows that the people who care will be rapt with attention when E3 bows in just a few weeks.
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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In a televised group discussion, you have to pay rapt attention lest the moderator call on you.
The custom-made "Metric Mystery" board is divided into a grid of 36 squares, Brendon told his rapt audience.
Rapt, another start-up, is perhaps the best example to show that optimising a supply chain can be as challenging as managing a financial portfolio.
Thousands in the arena stood rapt at the scene, including CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus, who craned his arm to snap a cellphone camera.
What ensues is a strange blend of manhunt and tone poem, in which even the most brutal characters seem rapt in the face of red earth and endless sky.
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