After dinner, librarians, authors, illustrators, publishing industry pros and others who love children's books listened with rapt attention as Rebecca Stead accepted the Newbery Medal for When You Reach Me and Jerry Pinkney accepted the Caldecott Medal for The Lion & the Mouse. (bookpage.com)
Some of our newer agents were suddenly «eyes wide open» and our veteran, most experienced and successful agents all sat in rapt attention as well (despite the fact that most... (1KBB.com)
In the practice of Inferential Analytics, the forecasting method we developed and use, we pay rapt attention when gallows humor becomes gallows fact, because it invariably signals that something is seriously wrong. (investmentresearchdynamics.com)