He's in that vulnerable, in-between period where he's still naive but already corrupted: a receptive listener for a name-dropping glamourpuss who promises glory without sweat.

He was a careful, receptive listener.

Still, he found a receptive listener in Olson, who had demurred when he was approached about defending Proposition 8 in the California Supreme Court.

But so eloquent is its spirit and imagination that it continues to refresh the receptive listener.

On the subject of pluralism, he found receptive listeners in the Dutch, who count 26 political parties.

A headhunter needs to be an excellent listener, receptive, willing and able to see the difference in peoples' backgrounds and how those people might fit into a very different environment.

But far from creating a barrier, the occasional flaws and documentary residue on the Fono recordings transport a receptive listener into the presence of artists long departed from the stage.

His every performance in an eclectic, highly selective repertory took any listener receptive to his message past an imaginative point of no return.

No, he replies, since in order for a truth to have an impact it must find a receptive listener, and people do not change that quickly.

Mr. Clinton's emphasis on economic themes should find receptive listeners in Connecticut.