receptiveness

• “Accordingly it is in his characters that most men place, and rightly place, his supreme excellence: here it is that his wisdom finds and grasps men directly as men; nor, at this point of meeting, does he leave any part of our many-sided being without its fitting portion of meat in due season; while our receptiveness is the only limit to our acquisitions. [”

  Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters

• “Accordingly it is in his characters that most men place, and rightly place, his supreme excellence: here it is that his wisdom finds and grasps men _directly_ as men; nor, at this point of meeting, does he leave any part of our many-sided being without its fitting portion of meat in due season; while our receptiveness is the only limit to our acquisitions. [”

  Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England

• “Pardek introduced him to the proconsul at the time, Neral, who claimed a receptiveness to discussing the Movement and its ideals.”

  Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire

• “This sporty male receptiveness to the feminine, the inner feminine -- Shakti/Serpent Power through its internal passage in the body to unite with Shiva in the sacred marriage at the crown of the head -- is at the essence of the film.”

  The Huffington Post: Lisa Paul Streitfeld: The True Story Behind Golf in the Kingdom

• “Addressing their demands to both the government and the Saudi people, the activists said they were "confident in the receptiveness of all to the beneficial lessons learned in the other Arab countries.”

  USA Today: Saudi intellectuals call for sweeping changes

• “There are ring-tailed lemurs that waft their tails around to speak a complex “language” of multiple scents to communicate aggression, receptiveness to mating, and much more.”

  Simon & Schuster: SuperCooperators

• “The contradictory nature of the Grassley's latest attack on the individual mandate stretches beyond his 2009 receptiveness to the individual mandate, however.”

  The Huffington Post: Chuck Grassley Slams Individual Health Care Mandate He Once Supported As Unconstitutional

• “If she's into a male, she strikes a pose that signals her receptiveness, keeping her body level and lifting her tail feathers high.”

  Boing Boing

• “How can the way that the liturgy is formulated and presented to the people elevate the sense of the sacredness of every human life and receptiveness to the Church's moral teachings and natural law.”

  Archbishop Chaput Interview Question about the Sacred Liturgy and Moral and Life Issues

• “It's a position of power and influence, and the response we get from those who receive the message can be addictive, particularly if our paychecks hinge upon the receptiveness of such an audience.”

  The Huffington Post: Christian Piatt: When Preachers Become False Prophets

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