Open-eared

Companies should be open-eared to feedback from their customers.

"She is passionate yet level-headed, committed but collaborative, and focused on making important change, while remaining creative and effective," Damodaran wrote in an email to the News. "As a leader, she is extremely communicative and open-eared, which has allowed our group to be most effective in its review of sexual climate at Yale."

Except I was standing underneath Front Street, hard-hatted and open-eared, as representatives from Toronto's Union Station painted a picture of the retail paradise that this cavern was to become.

Be open about your fears and anxieties, and be open-eared to your husband's feelings and thoughts too.

At its best, his writing was open-eared and curious, concerned with both his roots and their limitations.

Many people tend to listen to what they know, but others are more open-eared.

Which is everywhere—being open-eared is ostensibly a sign of anti-racism (not really) and gender progressivism (also not really) and is at least slightly aligned with the tenets of poptimism.

The audience was welcome and open-eared but also intrigued and riled up, and that's what Burton gave back to them.

He dropped out of college and moved to New York in 1958, bringing a sanguine, open-eared approach and a grounding in the trombone's early-jazz history. In turn, he helped broaden the possibilities of an emerging avant-garde scene.

It is an open-eared ethos that has led him to a wide group of collaborators, from younger British musicians such as the Mercury prize-nominated saxophonist Nubya Garcia to his fellow Chicagoans Junius Paul and Ben LaMar Gay.