The phrase "attentive audience" refers to a group of people who are paying close attention and actively listening or watching to something like a speaker or performer. Full definition
Yet most scientists have a bad sense of timing in explaining these extremes to a more attentive audience more often looking elsewhere. (realclimate.org)
If the Common Core's architects are done explaining its virtues — if they think that eighteen months of explaining its merits to a moderately attentive audience of self - selected elites amidst tumultuous debates over health care reform and the stimulus is sufficient — and that everyone needs to just sit down and get with the program, then I feel comfortable predicting that this whole exercise will end real poorly. (educationnext.org)
On July 13, 2012, she performed one of her seminal works, Official Welcome (2001), before a very crowded and fervently attentive audience in the atrium of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the performance's notoriety derives from the moment in which Fraser undresses and eventually stands nude while continuing to speak. (dailyserving.com)