receptivein a sentence
- Congress is receptive of the President's proposals.
- She is receptive to reasonable arguments.
- I'd like to give the speech to some receptive audiences before I try an audience that is more hostile to my proposals.
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The male alligator had spent days in early spring lying beside the female in a mating pair, blowing bubbles on her checks and providing her with other signs of masculine attention designed to bring her to receptivity,
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receptivity = open to being approached (in this case, for mating)
- They were attacking the cancer with a new cocktail: two chemo drugs and a protein receptor that they hoped would turn off the oncogene in Gus's cancer.† (source)
- For all we knew, he could have been a small Inuit woman living in Anchorage, Alaska, who had adopted this appearance and voice to make her students more receptive to her lessons.† (source)
- The oxygen solution also contains an anaesthetic that deadens pain receptors.† (source)
- As a consequence the troopers were swamped with calls from people claiming to know the hiker's identity, so they were even less receptive to Westerberg than they had been to Gallien.† (source)
- Very little receptivity to the resonances of the future.† (source)
- The attitudes I had tried were obvious—receptive to conception, then protective.† (source)
- She could not believe that Peter had written these things to her, that he'd ever think she might be receptive to them.† (source)
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- The boy's mind grew more receptive, the Whisperer's wrinkled messages straightened, and Mr. Curtain had at last settled into some real, productive work.† (source)
- He says, The male organ of copulation becomes turgid and is inserted into the receptive female orifice.† (source)
- His mother was a microbiologist: it had been her job to study the proteins of the bioforms unhealthy to pigoons, and to modify their receptors in such a way that they could not bond with the receptors on pigoon cells, or else to develop drugs that would act as blockers.† (source)
- You don't have scent receptors.† (source)
- Turned out I was in the 1 percent of people whose receptor for morphine doesn't make the pain go away.† (source)
- Then he massaged Abramelin oil into his softened and receptive flesh.† (source)
- On the other hand, Sophie could remember situations when her mother or the teachers at school had tried to teach her something that she hadn't been receptive to.† (source)
- Throughout the oceans of the world, and especially astride the passages that Soviet submarines had to cross to reach the open sea, the United States and other NATO countries had deployed gangs of highly sensitive sonar receptors.† (source)
- But my niang was also an open-minded person, receptive to new ideas.† (source)
- Brandy has a limited repertoire of facial expressions: cute and pouty; cute and sultry; perky and interested; smiling and receptive; cute and spacy.† (source)
- The reason we can focus clearly on only that much text is that most of the sensors in our eyes — the receptors that process what we see — are clustered in a small region in the very middle of the retina called the fovea.† (source)
- Roger would be more receptive when they were away.† (source)
- Out of pure habit, his mind would snatch one subject or another from the torrent, excluding all the rest before he noticed his lapse and wrenched himself back into a state of passive receptivity.† (source)
- I lifted the receiver and spoke in a husky, receptive voice.† (source)
- So I was very receptive to considering other options besides Florida.† (source)
- Initiates do our scrying because young minds are most receptive.† (source)
- Little Patti's walk toward the warm welcoming glow found me in a weakened and receptive state.† (source)
- Respectful and receptive through the rest of their meeting, Adam asked Pastor Smith as he was leaving to deliver a message to Janice and Larry "Tell them I'm sorry" he said.† (source)
- Molly says it is finding a receptive audience to its bottom-up approach in each country.† (source)
- Sophie glared at Etta and got up to move around the room to more receptive ears.† (source)
- Now that I thought of it, she had been awfully receptive to that zinc.† (source)
- In that young and growing Ohio town whose side streets, even, were paved with concrete, which sat on the edge of a calm blue lake, which boasted an affinity with Oberlin, the underground railroad station, just thirteen miles away, this melting pot on the lip of America facing the cold but receptive Canada—What could go wrong?† (source)
- The girl looked up, flushed, tired, but eagerly receptive.† (source)
- My nerves have been shut down or the pain receptors in my brain turned off.† (source)
- She seemed receptive, so I launched into my Don't Procreate with Losers speech..."Zoey!† (source)
- The American actress had never heard of him, but after being humiliated she was more receptive to sympathy than usual and ran over to him.† (source)
- Amburgh, though, seemed relaxed and sufficiently receptive.† (source)
- That was because she was not receptive to treatment.† (source)
- There's no telling if the crowds will be hostile or receptive, and he's concerned about Jackie enjoying herself.† (source)
- Had they been bred to have no pain receptors?† (source)
- When he escorted her, she was receptive to his verbal sallies, a complacent object of his suggestive caresses as he linked arms with her and held her a little closer than was appropriate.† (source)
- A place all receptive...listening.† (source)
- I was to keep ever before them the picture of a bright, passive, good-humored, receptive mass ever willing to accept their every scheme.† (source)
- You're politically-geo-politically-receptive.† (source)
- Or should I see if Mr. Fowlson is more receptive to my request?† (source)
- Señor Aguilar was receptive to allowing his son time off from his chores to practice on the team with one condition.† (source)
- No, sure he can't, doesn't have receptors for pain.† (source)
- It was kept locked at night and was therefore a place where, as he thought of it, his receptors could recover from urine-saturation.† (source)
- The tense, receptive, otherworldly faces of the soldiers were as real as if the presence of death had washed the canvasses with the glaze of truth.† (source)
- This is the basis of cosmic religiosity, and it appears to me that the most important function of art and science is to awaken this feeling among the receptive and keep it alive.† (source)
- We sat silent and receptive.† (source)
- And so Errtu was quite receptive, even relieved, when it heard Drizzt's call floating down the valley.† (source)
- And I take it the bankers in New York weren't receptive to your cash flow problems?† (source)
- They were still receptive to what I had to say.† (source)
- He was slouched rhetorically forward, toward Franny, his receptive audience, a supporting forearm on either side of his Martini.† (source)
- A quick blast of the UMG beam, carefully missing the hole at the center, had the area cut into a cylinder to accept the receptor collimator.† (source)
- Leamas, who was not particularly receptive to such subtleties, found it hard to remember that he was in a private flat and not a hotel.† (source)
- Leave your mind open, receptive to the Demon's message.† (source)
- All day long, on his way back to Kingcome, because he was alone and receptive, the little questions, the observations he had pushed deep within him, began to rise slowly toward the door of the conscious mind which was almost ready to open, to receive them, and give them words: "You are tired.† (source)
- Julius Euskadi stood tensely, his face and body receptive, listening but uncommunicative.† (source)
- But unknown to herself, she must have been open and receptive to the mysteriously therapeutic powers of W. A. Mozart, M.D., for the very first phrases of the music—the great Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major—caused her to shiver all over with uncomplicated delight.† (source)
- But we do not consider that it is enough to be passive receptors of entertainment.† (source)
- He looked at both of them, feeling that their rude staring was undermining his gaze and his silence, by which he had intended to impress them into a sufficiently solemn and receptive state for the things he intended to say to them; and wondering whether or not he should reprimand them.† (source)
- They started with panels of architects and designers, and they were generally receptive.† (source)
- He probably wasn't in a very receptive mood.† (source)
- 'It's called aurally receptive programming, instruments activated by a voice print.'† (source)
- She seemed receptive but hardly anxious.† (source)
- She waits, watches, mouth agape, receptive, lips quivering.† (source)
- She needed a place where women were relaxed, receptive to new ideas, and had the time and opportunity to hear something new.† (source)
- In reproduction, woman is passive and receptive whilst man is active and productive; for the child inherits only the male characteristics, claimed Aristotle.† (source)
- So foolishly receptive!† (source)
- He also thought that children only inherit the father's characteristics, since a woman was passive and receptive while the man was active and creative.† (source)
- As true children of their time, the Stoics were distinctly "cosmopolitan," in that they were more receptive to contemporary culture than the "barrel philosophers" (the Cynics).† (source)
- Many of them bore expressions of dissatisfaction at Orik's criticism, whereas the rest seemed more receptive to his comments and were thoughtful of countenance.† (source)
- And so, with the exceptions of Cassius of Bryn Shander, Muldoon, the new spokesman from Lonelywood, who looked up to Regis as the hero of his town, Glensather of Easthaven, the community ever-willing to join in for the good of Ten-Towns, and Agorwal of Termalaine who held fierce loyalty to Bruenor, the mood of the council was not very receptive.† (source)
- Look at the man in the bleachers who's pacing the aisles, a neighborhood crazy, he waves his arms and mumbles, short, chunky, bushy-haired—could be one of the Ritz Brothers or a lost member of the Three Stooges, the Fourth Stooge, called Flippo or Dummy or Shaky or Jakey, and he's distracting the people nearby, they're yelling at him to siddown, goway, meshuggener, and he paces and worries, he shakes his head and moans as if he knows something's coming, or came, or went—he's receptive to things that escape the shrewdest fan.† (source)
- She lay aggressively receptive, flushed, her navel no goblet but a pit in an earth-quaking land, flexing taut and expansive.† (source)
- If the beats were receptive to Lenny's take on hypocrisy and related matters and if they regretted his drug busts and obscenity trials, they were probably unmoved by the Russian accents and other ethnic riffs and bits that came shpritzing out of him like seltzer from an old bottling plant in Canarsie.† (source)
- True enough, the Reverend Billing, when they caught up with him, turned out to be a thief, an adulterer, a libertine, and a zoophilist, but that didn't change the fact that he had communicated some good things to a great number of receptive people.† (source)
- I felt numbness more than pain because my nerve receptors had overloaded.† (source)
- The BQQ-5's sensitive receptors revealed nothing, even after the SAPS system had been used.† (source)
- The inside of the suit is a mass of pressure receptors, hundreds of them.† (source)
- I'm pretty sure I'd recognize the ingredients of a known brain-receptor drug.† (source)
- But binaural microphonic receptors place you with some accuracy.† (source)
- It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.† (source)
- The SOSUS receptors were principally laid at shallow-water choke points, on the bottom of undersea ridges and highlands.† (source)
- Merely by manipulating the size of a group, we can dramatically improve its receptivity to new ideas.† (source)
- Slowly and carefully, he altered the directional receptor gangs in the sonar dome forward, his right hand twirling a cigarette pack, his eyes shut tight.† (source)
- Its on-board programming was designed to trace thermal receptors over the entire visible horizon, interrogating everything in sight and locking on any signature that fit its acquisition parameters.† (source)
- The SOSUS sensors were designed to give bearing checks through the selective use of individual receptors, which he could manipulate electronically, first getting one bearing, then using a neighboring gang to triangulate for a fix.† (source)
- Nerve impulses flew from his testes to his brain, where the brain's pain receptors were triggered, and the brain told Colin to feel pain in his balls, which Colin did, because the body always listens to the brain.† (source)
- d) pharmacology, with material for dose-relation and receptor site specificity studies of known compounds.† (source)
- I'd always wondered if she heard like the rest of us or if the world sounded different through such small receptors.† (source)
- I stopped here, letting the words take shape and sequence, my hand around Donna's ankle, and I sensed a certain receptiveness, a thing I needed to beat back the incongruity.† (source)
- You push with the heel of your hand; the suit feels it, amplifies it, pushes with you to take the pressure off the receptors that gave the order to push.† (source)
- Since your head is the one part of your body not involved in the pressure receptors controlling the suit's muscles, you use your head — your jaw muscles, your chin, your neck — to switch things for you and thereby leave your hands free to fight.† (source)
- Adam looked at us in turn, and was almost impossible to believe that this was a false image and Mike was simply placing us through binaural receptors.† (source)
- he'd found a Dylar receptor in the human brain and was putting the finishing touches on the tablet itself.† (source)
- All else needed were binaural receptors and a speaker in Wyoh's room, concealed, and same in mine, and a circuit to raise frequency above audio to have silence on Davis phone line, and its converse to restore audio incoming.† (source)
- He just sat back quiet and receptive.† (source)
- The four representatives of the upper classes sat down wherever they could—there were only two stools—and stared at the holy man in receptive silence.† (source)
- Receptive?† (source)
- He could feel the neversunned earth strike, slow and receptive, against him through his clothes: groin, hip, belly, breast, forearms.† (source)
- the smallest face in company, watching him across the table with still and curious and profound intensity as though she actually had some intimation gained from that rapport with the fluid cradle of events (time) which she had acquired or cultivated by listening beyond closed doors not to what she heard there but by becoming supine and receptive, incapable of either discrimination or opinion or incredulity, to the pre-fever's temperature of disaster which makes soothsayers and sometimes makes them right, of the future catastrophe in which the ogre-face of her childhood would apparently vanish so completely that she would agree to marry the late owner of it.† (source)
- She settled down receptively.† (source)
- One of us ...One of us ...One of us... Three words, endlessly repeated, dinning themselves hour after hour into receptive brains.† (source)
- Immeasurably receptive, holding everything, trembling with fullness, yet clear, contained—so my being seems, now that desire urges it no more out and away; now that curiosity no longer dyes it a thousand colours.† (source)
- But Stella's death two years later fell on a different substance; a mind stuff and being stuff that was extraordinarily unprotected, unformed, unshielded, apprehensive, receptive, anticipatory.† (source)
- and indomitable iron spirit but no ogre, because it was dead, vanished, consumed somewhere inflame and sulphur-reek perhaps among the lonely craggy peaks of my childhood's solitary remembering—or forgetting I was that sun, who believed that he (after that evening in Judith's room) was not oblivious of me but only unconscious and receptive like the swamp freed pilgrim feeling earth and tasting sun and light again and aware of neither but only of darkness' and morass's lack—who did believe there was that magic in unkin blood which we call by the pallid name of love that could be, might be sun for him (though I the youngest, weakest) where Judith and Clytie both would cast no shadow† (source)
- Just now she was sore and sick physically, and therefore certainly not in a receptive state of mind.† (source)
- Something in Dexter was alert, receptive, at once.† (source)
- But to have him isolated here all his receptive years— "And so to bed.† (source)
- Elizabeth-Jane said she was so glad, and made herself receptive.† (source)
- He had regarded Rosamond's cleverness as precisely of the receptive kind which became a woman.† (source)
- In Natasha's receptive condition of soul this prayer affected her strongly.† (source)
- She had a curious, receptive mind which found much pleasure and amusement in listening to other folk.† (source)
- Being of a passive and receptive rather than an active and aggressive nature, Carrie accepted the situation.† (source)
- He and Monsignor held the floor, and the older man, with his less receptive, less accepting, yet certainly not colder mentality, seemed content to listen and bask in the mellow sunshine that played between these two.† (source)
- Prosecutor Paravant quickly gave his ear another flick, to make sure that it would be open and receptive.† (source)
- She questioned him intelligently, she heard him submissively; and, prepared for the look of lassitude which usually crept over his listeners' faces, he grew eloquent under her receptive gaze.† (source)
- There were married couples looking domesticated and bored with each other in the midst of their travels; there were small parties and large parties, and lone individuals dining solemnly or feasting boisterously, but all thinking, conversing, joking, or scowling as was their wont at home; and just as intelligently receptive of new impressions as their trunks upstairs.† (source)
- So complete was their negation of interest in anything which seemed directly or indirectly a part of our everyday life that their sense of hearing—which had gradually come to understand its own futility when the tone of the conversation, at the dinner-table, became frivolous or merely mundane, without the two old ladies' being able to guide it back to the topic dear to themselves—would leave its receptive channels unemployed, so effectively that they were actually becoming atrophied.† (source)
- His temperament was receptive to the beautiful influences with which he came in contact, and he was able in his letters from Rome to put a subtle fragrance of Italy.† (source)
- And so he was about to repeat his customary formula in such cases that all could be told to him without fear or hesitation, whatever it might be, when a secondary thought, based on Roberta's charm and vigor, as well as her own thought waves attacking his cerebral receptive centers, caused him to decide that he might be wrong.† (source)
- Tess was so receptive that the few minutes of contact with the whirl of material progress lingered in her thought.† (source)
- He had very raw material, and doubtless most of his pupils failed to get the greatest lessons from him; but, as he had been a peculiarly receptive pupil of Dr. Hopkins, so Booker Washington became a peculiarly receptive pupil of his.† (source)
- Yet when he called the same evening after visiting Short, his manner redolent of a fairly worth-while achievement, she merely said, after listening to his explanation in as receptive a manner as she could: "Do you know just where this is, Clyde?† (source)
- Chapter XXXII THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR—A SEER TO TRANSLATE Such feelings as were generated in Carrie by this walk put her in an exceedingly receptive mood for the pathos which followed in the play.† (source)
- Hideous, I say, because it is so unnatural, so foreign to your nature, purely a matter of a receptive young mind.† (source)
- He would not say whether or not she had attached herself to the sound Low Church School of his father; but she would probably be open to conviction on that point; she was a regular church-goer of simple faith; honest-hearted, receptive, intelligent, graceful to a degree, chaste as a vestal, and, in personal appearance, exceptionally beautiful.† (source)
- Life was only the next step along the reckless path of spirit turned disreputable, matter blushing in reflex, both sensitive and receptive to whatever had awakened it.† (source)
- But flinging his arm high above his head, Herr Settembrini demanded he not confuse the two points of view, adding that the engineer would do better to remain receptive to ideas.† (source)
- We are simply describing Hans Castorp's impressions—but although he was especially receptive to such impressions, it should be noted that in fact Frau Chauchat's bared skin was by far the most remarkable piece of painting in the apartment.† (source)
- These were tissue formations—and very luxuriant formations they were— caused by foreign cells invading an organism that proved receptive to them and for some reason offered favorable conditions (although, one had to admit, rather dissolute conditions at that) for them to flourish.† (source)
- The two of them, eye to eye, are alone together in a way that two people are alone in only one other similar circumstance, the one receptive, the other active—and they share a secret that will unite them forever.† (source)
- But the thing was, as he told Joachim one day, you began with annoyance and distaste, and suddenly "something quite different comes up" that "has nothing whatever to do with forming opinions" and then it was all over with such rigor—and suddenly you were no longer receptive to pedagogic influences of the republican and eloquent sort.† (source)
- The Italian's remarks were truly the sort that, if Hans Castorp had heard them down in the plains seven weeks before, would have been mere noise; but his stay up here had made his mind receptive for them— receptive in terms of intellectual understanding, though not necessarily in terms of sympathy, which perhaps is the more telling factor.† (source)
- His Maria Mancinis tasted good again; the nerves of his dry mucous membranes had long since become receptive to the delicate aroma of the brand (a bargain at the price), so that for sentimental reasons he continued to order them from Bremen whenever his supply ran low, although the shop windows of an international resort displayed very inviting wares.† (source)
- But he expected her intelligence to operate altogether in his favour, and so far from desiring her mind to be a blank he had flattered himself that it would be richly receptive.† (source)
- Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.† (source)
- What was passing in that receptive childlike soul that so eagerly caught and assimilated all the diverse impressions of life?† (source)
- but Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored; therefore, to the death-longing eyes of such men, who still have left in them some interior compunctions against suicide, does the all-contributed and all-receptive ocean alluringly spread forth his whole plain of unimaginable, taking terrors, and wonderful, new-life adventures; and from the hearts of infinite Pacifics, the thousand mermaids sing to them—"Come hither, broken-hearted; here is another life without the guilt of intermediate death; here are wonders supernatural, without dying for them.† (source)
- Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring, with religious eye looking upward, counts itself nothing and abandons itself to the instruction flowing from all sides.† (source)
- Dorothea for the moment forgot her husband's mysterious irritation against Will: it seemed fresh water at her thirsty lips to speak without fear to the one person whom she had found receptive; for in looking backward through sadness she exaggerated a past solace.† (source)
- I was now with boys and girls who were studying, fighting, talking; it revitalized my being, whipped my senses to a high, keen pitch of receptivity.† (source)
- What He wants of the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful, but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise—does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.† (source)
- The attitudes of receptivity are various, and Will had sincerely tried many of them.† (source)
- During all the intervening time my mental condition had been a hurrying succession of vague emotional states or a sort of stupid receptivity.† (source)
- Then you want me not to let some previous conviction inure the receptivity of my mind with regard to some strange matter.† (source)
- She found no inspiration but she did find a dependable kindness in Mrs. Westlake, and at last she yielded to the old woman's receptivity and had relief in sobbing the story of Bea.† (source)
- Ah, the immoderate receptivity of youth—it can drive an educator to despair, because it is always ready to apply itself to bad ends.† (source)
- And even in terms of the objects and faces that made up the details of a day, Hans Castorp had to learn at every step to take a closer, less casual look at accustomed facts and faces and assimilate new things with youthful receptivity.† (source)
- Genius, he held, is necessarily intolerant of fetters: on the one hand it must have the utmost play for its spontaneity; on the other, it may confidently await those messages from the universe which summon it to its peculiar work, only placing itself in an attitude of receptivity towards all sublime chances.† (source)
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He was, my mother knew, quite unreceptive on the subject of Gravesend Academy.†
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standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreceptive means not and reverses the meaning of receptive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- It was apparently enough revenge upon the Catholics to be sending Owen there; either the added defiance of his own attendance was unnecessary, or else Mr. Meany had suffered such an outrage at the hands of the Catholic authorities that he was rendered unreceptive to the teachings of any church.† (source)
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Blindness to life, secession, unreceptivity, a dull wall of anxious, overprotected flesh, ignorant of the subtlety of God or Nature and unfeeling toward its beauty.†
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standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreceptivity means not and reverses the meaning of receptivity. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Now, when she saw how unreceptive these two people were, she hoped he would not.† (source)
- She thought she saw and heard everything, yet insulated her true self in a callous and unreceptive aloofness from all that affronted her.† (source)
- Certain seeds which are required to find a nidus for themselves under unfavorable circumstances have been supplied by nature with an apparatus of hooks, so that they will get a hold on very unreceptive surfaces.† (source)
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Me Imperturbe
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less
important than I thought,
Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee,
or far north or inland,
A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these
States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,
Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as
the trees and animals do.† (source)
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orbic
and stellar, we are as two comets,
We prowl fang'd and four-footed in the woods, we spring on prey,
We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead,
We are seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful waves rolling
over each other and interwetting each other,
We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,
We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence
of the globe,
We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two,
We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.† (source)
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