The listener, often feeling overwhelmed by the criticism, tended to avoid future encounters.

(The deadpan dialogue is irresistible, and at this point, readers and listeners tend to crack up.)

And listeners tend to be ambivalent about criticism.

In general, listeners tend to be white, male and conservative.

The listener tends to confuse the high hopes for the first activity with a justifiable lowering of expectations in the second.

Their listeners tend to want to keep what they have and are doubtful whether any change will be for the better.

Its listeners tend to be more affluent than most and its high-powered board of directors knows how to shake corporate money trees.

In fact, listeners tend to think of him as a Baroque specialist.

Moreover, AM listeners tend to be over 50 years old, while advertisers are intent on winning teen-agers and young professionals.

Instead, listeners who are college-age and younger tend to think of music, he said, as a service and not a product.