She reclined,
receptive, on the deep leather cushions, turned her eyes conscientiously to everything I pointed out to her, and never mentioned to me till sometime afterward that she might be supposed to know Florence better than I, as she had lived there for years with Miss Bordereau.
But his inward state was that of satisfaction at the passively
receptive attitude of the Assistant Commissioner, who murmured gently:
Infancy, youth,
receptive, aspiring, with religious eye looking upward, counts itself nothing and abandons itself to the instruction flowing from all sides.
In some strange way Japan was
receptive to all the West had to offer.
But his fine days are the best for stopping at home, to read, to think, to muse--even to dream; in fact to live fully, intensely and quietly, in the brightness of comprehension, in that
receptive glow of the mind, the gift of the clear, luminous and serene weather.
Inconceivably young - still beautifully unthinking - infinitely
receptive.
He was extraordinarily
receptive and responsive, while his imagination, pitched high, was ever at work establishing relations of likeness and difference.
If the correlative of 'the slave' is said to be 'the master', then, though all irrelevant attributes of the said 'master', such as 'biped', '
receptive of knowledge', 'human', should be removed, and the attribute 'master' alone left, the stated correlation existing between him and the slave will remain the same, for it is of a master that a slave is said to be the slave.
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.
The conjunction of Soapy's
receptive state of mind and the influences about the old church wrought a sudden and wonderful change in his soul.
She was well read,
receptive, a charming companion.
What was passing in that
receptive childlike soul that so eagerly caught and assimilated all the diverse impressions of life?