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- noun Plural form of
listening .
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Learn the language, naturally: Family M-mv memorizes wide swaths of Shakespeare through repeated viewings and readings i.e., "listenings".
Archive 2006-09-01 M-mv 2006
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Learn the language, naturally: Family M-mv memorizes wide swaths of Shakespeare through repeated viewings and readings i.e., "listenings".
Shakespeare. Yes, again. And again. M-mv 2006
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So if the poem by Wallace Stevens or Marianne Moore sounds great, is amusing or engaging or spooky in a way that we like … then like the devotee of opera or rap music or rock music, we are happy to understand only gradually, over many listenings.
Enough interesting things and serious engagement to make it worth reading 2009
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So if the poem by Wallace Stevens or Marianne Moore sounds great, is amusing or engaging or spooky in a way that we like … then like the devotee of opera or rap music or rock music, we are happy to understand only gradually, over many listenings.
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I find after multiple listenings I prefer "The Space in Between" to "A Drowning" but overall I'm enjoying this new direction for Trent and Mariqueen.
How to Destroy Angels: The Space in Between [Null] greygirlbeast 2010
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Because it's read by Jonathan Davis and I already know that these books are superb, I suspect this will be a top-shelf production that will warrant multiple listenings.
MIND MELD: What SF/F/H Books Are On The Top of Your "To-Be-Read" Pile? 2010
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It takes a couple viewings/listenings to appreciate — or even distinguish — its songs.
'Nine' is short on a few counts, including dialogue, music 2009
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And that's after dozens of listenings to each of them.
Singing bird with rainbows on her wings (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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It is the rare dance song that is both instantly accessible (with that bass line of all bass lines), and yet rewards close and repeated listenings with expertly crafted layers, textures, and effects.
Joe Vogel: The Top Ten Michael Jackson Songs of All Time 2010
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Like most National discs, its charms gradually reveal themselves over repeated listenings, although it might just be the Stockholm syndrome kicking in.
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