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He kept the minds of his hearers receptive and disengaged.
Tess was so receptive that the few minutes of contact with the whirl of material progress lingered in her thought.
"Put yourselves in a receptive frame of mind," she said in a glib, professional manner.
And she announced herself as teachable and receptive.
What was needed was a simple, practical, real way to make it understandable to men, to bring them into the right environment, to make their hearts and minds receptive, to point the way to peace, joy and eternal life.
She strove the harder to overthrow such imperfections by perfecting and cultivating the maid's receptive mood.
Phoebe, too, once so sweet, so docile, so receptive, had begun to be critical, to resist him now and then.
The ordinary man is not capable of any great activity in this mental world; his condition is chiefly receptive, and his vision of anything outside his own shell of thought is of the most limited character.
And because matter is receptive of the form that has flowed down into it by the flux of violence and necessity, matter must necessarily move to receive form; and therefore things are constrained by will and obedience in turn.
Many parents seem to assume that the child's brain is lying dormant during those first few years, when, as a matter of fact, the child's mind during these years is most receptive, and expanding at a rate never after equalled.
This bill, which showed the influence of Adam Smith's principles on Pitt's receptive mind, favored American more than any other foreign trade in the mother country, and favored it to a still greater extent in the West Indies.
The revival of learning had to challenge the old clerical structure of knowledge, and to set free the progress of secular science, before the minds of men could be readily receptive of new forms of social structure and new modes of human activity.
No art reaches a larger audience daily, no esthetic influence finds spectators in a more receptive frame of mind.
That pole which is connected with the positive side of the battery is called the anode, or upper pole, and that which is connected with the negative, or receptive, side of the battery, is called the cathode, or lower pole.
To the gentle, the reverent, the receptive, the simple, he, too, was gentle and reverent.
There is a growth in logic, independent thought, alertness in thinking, and quickness of receptive powers.
For one soul deeply moved and agitated often affects by electricity another in a receptive condition.
This is the female, the receptive part; but here we see the peculiarity of orchid structure.
For the man of this earth is more in worldly things, that is, in externals, than the men of other earths, and it is internal things that are receptive of revelation; if it were received in external things the truth would not be understood.
Is he at all receptive to the idea of making an occasional delivery in the outlying districts?
Perhaps he was a less receptive listener than of yore, when he had more empty spaces in his mind than he had this year.
The too receptive organisms of unsuspecting infancy suffered in their turn.
The popularization of the new psychology has thus created a soil finely receptive to the unusual.
The president yielded the first point, that of the receptive ear; but grudgingly and as one under strict compulsion.
Instead, however, of being merely passively receptive of the stream of ideas and images and sensations flowing from the work you are reading, you must be alert to take all that it has to give, and to re-create this in terms of your own experience.
There were no means of higher education at that period, but her father, who was an eminent lawyer, and her grandfather, a judge, finding her so receptive, educated her with the care that was given to boys who were intended for a professional life.
The receptive perusal of any newspaper ought to furnish the reader with a fresh stock of literary material.
His poetical life, both in the receptive and productive phases of it, was intense.
We may now briefly advert to the receptive nerve ends.
It is a receptive attitude, a justifying principle, and an energizing power.
Certain congressmen have been notoriously receptive.
The host should wait with a cordially receptive air until his guest begins, unless he is in a great hurry.
She sat with closed eyes and lifted face, penitent, receptive, waiting to be blessed.
Confession makes the soul receptive of the bountiful waters of life.
When they seemed in a mellow and receptive mood he began to rehearse his achievements in the East and unfold his plans.
Madame De Berney was receptive and sympathetic and had gotten a goodly insight into literature.
When one awakes from sleep and so returns to conscious life, he is in a peculiarly receptive and impressionable state.
It is placed into a peculiar, receptive condition, in which this "recharging" process takes place.
The success of life lies not in possessions; it lies in keeping the harmonious and perfectly receptive relation with the spiritual realm of forces, and using these forces in every duty and need and opportunity that presents itself.
She was leaning back in her seat, serenely receptive.
For it is not necessary that a subject receptive of the qualities should always have either the one or the other; that which has not yet advanced to the state when sight is natural is not said either to be blind or to see.
And then his receptive brain conjured up the blackest suspicions.
There may, indeed, here and there, be miraculous professors who attach more importance, and give higher marks, to the indications of the creative intellect than to the achievements of the receptive intellect.
With his feet firmly planted on the ladder of ambition, he was not indifferent to securing social props for a further rise, but was nevertheless in such a tumult of feeling as to make him particularly receptive to real passion.
They are simply the teachable, the receptive, the people who want help and are conscious of need.
In the meantime the matter was of such overwhelming importance that nothing else could take its place; all she could do was to suspend the active part of the thinking faculties and leave the mind only receptive.
There was no pollination of that tree, whereas other trees that were receptive at other times are pretty well filled.
His words annihilated space grandly and leaped into the old man's receptive ear with sizzling and electric effect.
I have the same fatal charge to make against almost all men; the exceptions are so few and doubtful that I doubt whether I can ever gain from another that intense receptive attitude which I am willing to bestow.
Nevertheless, it is of the nature of things that a high strain of the mind renders it intensely receptive and sensitive for outward impressions, even though they be not welcomed; like a taut string, which answers to a breath breathed upon it.
And in communicating with the higher Intelligences certain sounds are useful, to create a harmonious atmosphere, suitable for their activities, and to make our own subtle bodies receptive of their influences.
I was keen and alive in every faculty, in a state of high exhilaration, and both observant and receptive.
I repeat that I know you are in the way of real work, and that's why I venture to show my point of view; and please believe me energetic only toward the final good of the receptive surface you have set out to impress.
No doubt this has been the result in a few instances, but the more general outcome has been that secular interests have become so absorbing that spiritual matters have been crowded out, and the mind has proved less rather than more receptive.
While he was a receptive candidate for the Presidency this post suited his needs and gratified his taste.
"I have never seen a person more perilously appreciative or receptive than you."
Something worried him, but as I was not in a very receptive condition, I forbore questioning him.
In a few days, or after the pollen has been removed, up stretches the style, spreading its four receptive stigmas just where an incoming bee, well dusted from a younger flower, must certainly leave some pollen on their sticky surfaces.
Neither the Infinite nor the Finite Principle can obtain definite manifestation without the aid of the other; but there is a capacity in the latter for becoming receptive and productive from the former.
Its inhabitants are unusually genial and receptive; these are days of seed-sowing, for the harvest is not yet.
It was Descartes who stimulated his thought at the most receptive moment: in 1642 to have denied a theory which in 1646 he proclaimed with such force evidently argues in favor of a most powerful attachment.
It is by no means necessary to think only of the so-called important events of life: every one, in every sphere of life, be his four walls ever so humble, will be possessed of experience enough, provided only his mind is truly receptive.
Indeed, he was like a receptive, lovable old woman, the kind he celebrates so often.
The critic of literature needs to be in an expectant and receptive frame of mind.
Forgetting is slower after active recitation than when the more passive, receptive method of study has been employed.
The women here are so exquisitely receptive to it that when it is on their excitement causes changes in their body heat.
Japan has made wonderful strides in educational matters, being receptive of new ideas concerning the common schools; but there are adjustments that must be made to the social ideals and customs of the people, because of the rise of the new education.
She took it in with her present odd mixture of the receptive and the derisive.
There is no necessity that the substance should manifest itself in just these attributes and no others, for abstract substance is equally receptive of all determinations, and equally indifferent to them all.
He was too receptive and too restless to acquiesce in a single convention.
The female was receptive but did not crouch in a horizontal position.
In other words, whatever the nature of the agent, its result on the receptive organs enters the central nervous organ as a nervous impulse, and all segments of the central nervous organ receive impulses so generated.
The thought of Lucretius acted upon the mind of Virgil through the force both of sympathy and antagonism, as a strong original nature acts upon one which is at once receptive of influence and possessed of firm convictions of its own.
Virgil too possessed this gift of vividly realizing the objects which interested him; and his singularly receptive nature enabled him to feel a much larger number of interests than the other poets of his country.
The nurse should be cheerful, orderly, punctual, patient, full of faith, - receptive to Truth and Love.
It was a new peril of which the shadow, cast before, fell upon the receptive fancy of the girl who loved the adventurer.
The writer of the above, when in conversation with me in my own study, incidentally dropped a word which intimated that his inner ear was sometimes receptive of utterances put forth by embodied men and women, who, at the time, were far away from him.
Receptive to the same mode of thought, the flow of conversation was easy and unhindered.
On an appreciative eye and receptive mood it leaves a tenacious impression which will never be forgotten.
Simple in taste, diet and habits, but shut up in a state of close confinement, and leading a monotonous life, scarcely cheered by a ray of light, they are necessarily not receptive of large communications of truth.
He was receptive rather than original, inflammable rather than fiery, brilliant rather than warm.
"The young, untutored mind is readily receptive."
It may in rare cases show itself finely receptive, earnest and powerful, richer perhaps than the inward life of other peoples; but, taken as a whole, it remains weak, as all its fine threads are not tied together in one strong knot.
Only by keeping the mind plastic and receptive does the student escape perdition.
The more the student of Nature walks with her and finds in her his chief pleasures, the more receptive does his soul become for all that is marvelous and beautiful, as from day to day they present themselves in new and unexpected phases.
The "suggestions" which were flowing in upon her receptive consciousness were not the caresses of a waltz.
Dogs seem, after a long contact with infected individuals, to be receptive of contagion (Puck).
His literary imagination, which was born in him, works on the positive, scientific education to which his mind was subjected at its most receptive period, and the rare combination gives to his writings a peculiar distinction.
It is the wear and tear, the process of destruction, that counteracts the cohesive strength of the particles forming mineral matter, which by its action becomes flexible and so receptive of outside influences.
Like the body after long fasting, the mind after a long illness was peculiarly receptive, and Sylvia rejoiced at the opportunity to pause for a while before re-entering ordinary existence in order to contemplate the life of another lonely soul.
There was, certainly, no one who could teach him anything, and all that one can say is, that having a mind extraordinarily receptive, he would be quick to grasp and turn to advantage any new influence with which he might be brought into contact.
The attitude of trust and expectancy that it necessitates is just that in which we are brought into a receptive state.
Voltaire entered too eagerly into the interests of the world, was by temperament too exclusively sympathetic and receptive and social, to place himself even in imagination thus outside of the common circle.
It produces, in fact, a modification of the psychic dispositions of society; and it opens the way for society to be influenced by the energetic acts of exceptional individuals, for whom it prepares a receptive soil.
His impressionable nature responded to a new appeal, his readily receptive eyes beheld a new vision.
The Receiver being in a passive condition, and his brain sending practically no impulses over his nerves, he is in a receptive condition to the imparted nervous current, which acts upon him something like an impulse from his own brain, only weaker.
You, the Receiver, must place yourself in a perfectly passive and receptive state of mind, resigning your own Will for the time being, and being perfectly willing and desirous of being mentally directed or led by the Will of the Transmitter.
The listeners, the receptive listeners, should outnumber the talkers.
Punky Williams wriggled his way among them; his little ears receptive, his mouth close shut.
It was about the first of May, and all nature was bursting into new life, when even hearts, the hardest and least receptive of external influences, feel as if they were living a portion of their youth over again.