Sentence examples for but receptive from inspiring English sources

When they resist that purchase, they are impervious to happy ads, but receptive to ads appealing to their pride.

He was skeptical of the morals of industrialists and newspaper publishers but receptive to the delusions of quacks.

Jazz has always been an adaptive art, possessed of certain essentials but receptive to variation at every turn.

From a sun-baked stone stage, a drag performer named Appolonia Cruz surveyed a small but receptive crowd, mostly clustered under a lone shade tree.

Hogan's cold calls that day yielded two financial planners who offered to send settlement cases his way, but receptive audiences aren't the norm.

An exhibition he organized at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1955, "Man, Machine and Motion," signaled his fascination with modern technology and mass-produced images, toward which he adopted a critical but receptive stance.

White House officials said Mr. Bush was firmly committed to the goal of drug coverage for the elderly, but was receptive to other ways of achieving the goal.

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1948, Mr. Meireles came of age far from the international art scene but eagerly receptive to the latest developments in European and North American art.

Russian officials, including the minister of agriculture, he said, are not interested in raising beef import quotas, but are receptive to buying American breeding cattle.

Females normally retreat from the bowing display and exhibit submissive postures but if receptive sink to the ground with lowered wings and tail.

Kensington and Chelsea are trying, now, to answer that question, but how receptive will victims of what effectively amounts to state violence be to the state offering help too little, too late?