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attuned to
adjective as in receptive
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Working with the youngster, he says, fostered a way of filming that was attuned to what Heffernan might do as much as what McQueen might want.
“We're attuned to this balance between respecting our patients' wishes but also keeping them safe,” Wu said.
In fact, it’s so attuned to the vocal range of its characters that if, by a certain point, you can’t figure out that one of the capybara’s throaty grunts means “I ate too much” or a particularly harsh squawk from the bird translates as “Leave me alone,” then you probably aren’t reading the room well with your fellow humans either.
RaMell Ross — “Nickel Boys” “Sean Baker’s movies are attuned to class and privilege, existing on the edges of an America rarely captured on film. With ‘Anora,’ Baker has given us a Cinderella story about a Brooklyn stripper who thinks she has found her Prince Charming in a feckless Russian oligarch.
Early in Harris’ campaign, the Democrats seemed attuned to the power of patriotism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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