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Your muscle fibres will be more receptive to growth and reaction time will increase, thus increasing speed and movement.
Audiences at two screenings in Los Angeles, packed with film industry luminaries, were equally receptive.
Thus, Responsible Conduct with Animals in Research should find a ready and receptive audience.
He finds acting students are quickly receptive to the notion that stage combat training is not a martial art or a sword fight.
The men were much more receptive to political advertising and seemed to prefer mailings with more creative presentation.
Pollinations were performed in June by applying the cotton stick loaded with pollen on the receptive stigmas.
Approaches to drug treatment have become increasingly receptive to the dimension of calculability.
They seem to like having a captive ear, someone who's listening in a non-judgmental and receptive way.
There's a strong general feeling among our members that consumers are not receptive to milk from cloned cows.
The rationale was that patients could readily identify with paraprofessional case managers and be receptive to their influence.
I wanted to use a composting toilet, but county wastewater officials weren't receptive to the idea.
It's powerful corporations that pay top dollar for receptive ears in Washington.
Merton and Barber reveal social milieus to be productive or receptive to the concept.
Will customers who are transactionally motivated be receptive to a full-service strategy?
The stigma consists of a long band of receptive tissue along the ventral side of the carpel, covered by long unicellular papillae.
The public interest group may also attempt to gain a more receptive ear for its concerns by infiltrating the relevant public body or bodies.
I think you would have gotten the point if you had been more receptive to the complaint, instead of the acidic tone it was handed down in.
Capital expenditures that can cut costs also are apt to find a receptive audience.
However, we've found that people in Swindon are receptive to new ideas and are broad-minded about art.
The ummah became more fragmented than ever and became even more receptive to Western cultural penetration.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Japanese are open-minded and receptive of truth, from whatever quarter it may come.
It is a phase of the life of the school, both in its active and its receptive states.
This lollipop found its way straight into the receptive mouth of any small creature of the human race who came in her way.
Her overexcited mind, her impaired health, were readily receptive of such poison as distilled from the lips of Mrs. Strangeways.
The mind was intensely receptive, when it was receiving at all.
What was passing in that receptive childlike soul that so eagerly caught and assimilated all the diverse impressions of life?
He listened eagerly, with receptive ears, lying on his back and looking up and joying in each movement of her lips as she talked.
This is the way in which Canton was made receptive to commodity exchange.
My dulled faculties dragged themselves partly back to life and took a receptive attitude.
It withstands the corrugation process, is print receptive, repulpable, and cold set glue able.
His manner was anything but receptive so far as excuses were concerned.
We were always in the most receptive and sympathetic condition.
She was all dark, will-less, having only the receptive will.
Straight heart lines are more feminine as they are receptive, thoughtful and analytical in their approach.
Indian ryots are quite as receptive of new ideas as English farmers.
In this receptive mood the traveller reaches lund and an automobile.
Hopkins, so Booker Washington became a peculiarly receptive pupil of his.
In some strange way Japan was receptive to all the West had to offer.
He was extraordinarily receptive and responsive, while his imagination, pitched high, was ever at work establishing relations of likeness and difference.
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.
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