All 4 Uses of
susceptible
in
Man And Superman
- I pride myself on not being one of these susceptible: If you study the electric light with which I supply you in that Bumbledonian public capacity of mine over which you make merry from time to time, you will find that your house contains a great quantity of highly susceptible copper wire which gorges itself with electricity and gives you no light whatever.†
Chpt Ded.
- I pride myself on not being one of these susceptible: If you study the electric light with which I supply you in that Bumbledonian public capacity of mine over which you make merry from time to time, you will find that your house contains a great quantity of highly susceptible copper wire which gorges itself with electricity and gives you no light whatever.†
Chpt Ded.
- But here and there occurs a scrap of intensely insusceptible, intensely resistant material; and that stubborn scrap grapples with the current and will not let it through until it has made itself useful to you as those two vital qualities of literature, light and heat.†
Chpt Ded.
- A sensitive, susceptible, exaggerative, earnest man: a megalomaniac, who would be lost without a sense of humor.†
Chpt 1 *
Definition:
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(susceptible) easily influenced or harmed
or:
capable of being treated in a particular way