It is practice for dealing with life as peacefully and receptively as possible, not just superficially, but on the inside, too. ❋ Olivia Rosewood (2011)
Life is best lived receptively and through self-reflection. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Another complaint I have about both February and May is that everybody who is not black and Asian, respectively, sits back passively (albeit often receptively) and waits to have the History and Heritage brought to them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And since my students were already predisposed to think cultural studies has little to learn from those still speaking receptively of "the literary," Simpson's rhetoric effectively drove the "cultural" and ❋ Unknown (2002)
When I conversed with her in motorfree English, it was clear that this girl was a proficient linguist—both receptively and expressively. ❋ M.D. Mel Levine (2002)
Bridgette Mabandla and Ncqonde Balfour receptively as well as a business delegation. ❋ Unknown (2001)
That is being met very receptively here on Capitol Hill, but several key senators want to go further than the president. ❋ Unknown (2001)
I think as we have a chance to make the case, whether it be here in Washington or around the country, that case will be heard receptively. ❋ ITY National Archives (1999)
She should have listened more receptively, more tenderly. ❋ Goodkind, Terry (1999)
The President's got some ideas he'll advance today and we have no idea how receptively they'll be received by the leadership on the other side. ❋ ITY National Archives (1995)
Powerfully muscled yet receptively soft, menacing yet generous, it renders convincing the thought that respect for autonomy may coexist with, and even motivate, the most passionate form of desire. ❋ Nussbaum, Martha C. (1994)
With one we seek aggressively to master life; with the other we seek receptively to be inspired. ❋ Harry Emerson Fosdick (N/A)
She sat, with brow clasped tightly in both hands, looking intently upon the carpet at his feet, trying, he thought, to understand, to get into a mind too confused to work receptively what he was saying to her. ❋ Mary E. Mann (N/A)
It is usually a little tremulous, not quite sure of itself, and indeed its best adornment is generally the sobriety induced by an overshadowing sense of paternal correction and solicitude always present to check rashness and desultoriness, and make it at least "gang warily" with a finger on its lip; and their attainments in Latin are, at the best, receptively rather than actively of value. ❋ Janet Erskine Stuart (N/A)
And again and again, at this point, I make the same discovery; I have been watching the story, that is to say, forgetful of the fact that there was more for me to do than to watch receptively and passively, forgetful of the novel that I should have been fashioning out of the march of experience as it passed. ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)
Dickie had that evening listened to his friend's experiences of travel, for Hal was not even a good raconteur; he started an anecdote by its point, and roughly slapped in the scenery afterwards; he had likewise a habit of disconnecting his impressions from any sequence of time; also he exaggerated, and forgot names and dates; and even occasionally lapsed into odd silence just when Dickie was offering himself receptively for a climax. ❋ John Cournos (1915)
To begin with the latter: The Supper is distinguished from all other kinds of public worship in that, while in other forms of worship the degree in which the different members of the communion are actively or receptively related to one another varies according to their gifts and their place in the communion, in the Supper all the members are similarly placed in a receptive relation to the blessedness of Christ. ❋ 1862-1929 (1911)
