Receptivity

The husband's yang should ebb while the yang of his wife and the midwife surged, and the knightly husband was expected to cultivate his yin receptivity and retire from the spotlight. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Do you think he would accept larger, continent-wide differences in receptivity? ❋ Unknown (1997)

Since they will not understand, they shall not understand. prophesying ... not for them that believe not, but ... believe -- that is, prophesying has no effect on them that are radically and obstinately like Israel (Isa 28: 11, 12), unbelievers, but on them that are either in receptivity or in fact believers; it makes believers of those not wilfully unbelievers (1Co 14: 24, 25; Ro 10: 17), and spiritually nourishes those that already believe. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Therefore the possession rather than the receptivity is the divine element which thought seems to contain, and the act of contemplation is what is most pleasant and best. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

Second, as has already been argued, there is an inherent institutional receptivity of military, police, and correctional institutions to the practice of torture; a receptivity which is such that torture cultures will grow and flourish, notwithstanding Dershowitz's proposal that only tightly controlled and highly restricted forms of torture are to be legally admissible. ❋ Linda Boroff (2009)

You don't have that kind of receptivity to evangelicals in New Hampshire. ❋ Unknown (2008)

˜Passion,™ in particular, is connected with a kind of receptivity, but how the passions are receptive and what they are receptive to tend to cross over various comfortable divisions taken to mark early modern philosophy: mind and body; perception and will; reason, judgment and desire; occurrent consciousness and confused dispositions; representations and presentations; private and social; nature and convention; and even what is internal and what external to subjectivity. ❋ Schmitter, Amy M. (2006)

Perhaps the still evening and the quiet room induced confidence, or she may have felt the effect of my "receptivity," as she called it. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is the attitude of mental receptivity which is the alchemy to transmute events and circumstances into experience, and it is experience alone which determines both the quality and the trend of life. ❋ Lilian Whiting (N/A)

The immediate object of inner perception is the conditions or states of the Ego, which make their appearance as the expressions of the two primary functions, "receptivity" and ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Just off-label sales - just kind of receptivity to - from the oncologists, things like that. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I despised the whole charade -- going to catechism classes, taking part in religious pageants, Holy Communion, etc. But some kind of receptivity to the idea or observance of religion sunk in over the years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This kind of receptivity, indeed, is part of the very American experience. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"receptivity" in my nature, I am the unwilling depositary of half the secrets of Barton. ❋ Various (N/A)

No, this refers to being open in the sense of receptivity to what your partner is experiencing and communicating to you; and being open in the active sense -- revealing your own thoughts, concerns, fears and so on. ❋ Douglas LaBier (2011)

We are seeing tremendous receptivity across the country to the fact that biological evidence needs to be preserved to assess claims of wrongful convictions and to solve the thousands and thousands of cold cases that can be aided by DNA testing years after the crimes are committed, he says. ❋ Unknown (2011)