Sentence Examples:
The spectator is to be receptive.
In some strange way Japan was receptive to all the West had to offer.
In love, of course, the weaker nature is receptive to all manner of suggestion.
In intuition the mind is receptive, in conception it acts spontaneously.
Above all, he was a man of cheerful, genial, and receptive temper.
When one is all steel one ceases to be receptive.
Let us be passive and receptive, my friends.
A receptive and not an inquiring mind seemed to him the prerequisite for a convert.
Scarborough looked receptive, but not enthusiastic.
Be receptive to her beauty, be always Eager Heart.
Over it all, sheeting ceiling and walls, lay the living and receptive wax.
Women are naturally both receptive and constructive.
And the receptive force in us is vibration, too.
Capacity is receptive; ability, potential.
To his ardent and receptive nature it was a diamond mine.
I told him that she had a receptive mind and would be an ornament to any profession.
The artistic side of his nature was receptive rather than creative.
All seem in a glow, and quite as receptive as I wish.
They were planting seed in what they believed to be receptive soil.
The whole body is thrown into a receptive attitude.
As soon as you accomplish this, your mind is in a receptive state.
We are the most receptive people in the world.
Above all, she seemed alive, receptive, like a woman with ten senses.
My small son is at such a very receptive age.
This home of a great doctor was open-hearted and receptive, frank and refined.
Elizabeth-Jane said she was so glad, and made herself receptive.
I am merely receptive, that is all.
And to all of them it seems that Garrison was peculiarly receptive.
I am receptive of the great soul.
Not being receptive, he took no pains to pretend that he was.
I was ready, wholly sympathetic and receptive.
The mind of success must be receptive and plastic.
Her mood, however, for the moment was receptive rather than expressive.
For she had to be receptive only, and that was easy: the vital matter rested with him.
The boy began to be receptive.
They now feel this and are compelled to a mood receptive to our advances.
She was receptive to suggestion, you see.
And all the rest of his receptive organs?
Events had drawn him into a receptive attitude toward religion.
I know I was receptive, even to penny buns, and sometimes simply wild with appreciation.
It is we that are in a changed receptive mood.
He had found the girl kinder, more receptive than he had dared hope.
His nature was even more receptive than active.
In fact, he was in a decidedly receptive mood for that which immediately happened.
The branch was purely a receptive one.
They saw nothing, but were in too anxious a state to be receptive.
It is throughout receptive, but by no means inactive.
His influence fell upon a thirsty and receptive soil.
And Ruth seemed day by day more receptive to his passion.
The beauty wrought in her a dreamy receptive mood.
In the apt Flora I found a receptive pupil.
It is made of trifles, but of trifles that count at that receptive age of childhood.
The pupils were thus placed in a receptive attitude to hear the story of John Wilkes.
Jefferies, too, was intensely receptive as well as intensely active.
Pauline's mind was almost purely receptive and her range of inquiry limited indeed.
All the receptive avenues to his brain seemed to have shut down suddenly.
Saunders had focused her large receptive ear on the conversation.
It is truly making rapid strides among these keen-minded and receptive people.
She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
It is the receptive organs that are at fault.
Meantime her mind was purely receptive.
One is the mere spectator, the passive and receptive receiver.
A little pained, Denis decided to reserve his story for more receptive ears.
He was a man of a good deal of receptive intelligence and worshiped the senator.
Formerly the child was at any rate allowed (or rather required) to be actively receptive.
This receptive faculty, for power it cannot be called, is neither voluntary nor constant.
It is a phase of the life of the school, both in its active and its receptive states.
His mind was receptive of the best things in the service.
There was no limit save that imposed by the receptive capacity of the guest.
Their minds were active and receptive.
He had thought to be prepared and receptive.
I suppose it is because I am receptive.
Human life is in one aspect receptive; in another, active.
We were always in the most receptive and sympathetic condition.
Let us get into genial, receptive mood.
He arrived in Paris in 1778 and found this city more receptive to his arts.
It was receptive as well as productive.
She is receptive in all the parts of her being.
All they desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.
He had the curious, receptive, alert and eager mind of a child.
Hopkins, so Booker Washington became a peculiarly receptive pupil of his.
If you choose to talk in the pauses, they are receptive and cordial.
I'd hate to have to testify about it in court, but I'm receptive.
Receptive intellect has the power of taking fully in what is addressed to it by others.
Slowly, his mind opened and became receptive.
The third estate alone proved receptive.
She was not very sharp, although she was very receptive of modern philosophy.
Pete chuckled, already receptive to Joe's thought.
It is the receptive mind, rather than the oracle, which inspires confidence.
He sang it when the people were in a receptive mood.
A torrent of words from the other seemed to meet a receptive ear.
In a word, woman in her earlier stages is simply receptive.
Like a sponge I was readily receptive.
It is similar to it in being receptive and not active.
Never did singer sing sweeter or more touching song, or to more receptive company.
An orderly mind and great receptive power are most essential.
No want of capacity and receptive readiness, she was sure; nor of active energy.
However, he knew that he was not properly in a receptive mood for happiness.
Act and action are both in contrast to all that is merely passive and receptive.