Sentence examples for hardly receptive from inspiring English sources
nurses and doctors are in short supply, pressed for time, overwhelmed with patients, and hardly receptive to the idea of filling out yet another piece of paper?
The French were hardly more receptive to his work: "In France, to be an Arab or African musician who didn't play traditional music was to be automatically suspect".
Up to now, the affecting tale of King George VI's stammer has not been widely disseminated, most likely because his daughter still sits on the English throne, and would hardly be receptive to her father's speech impediment becoming the stuff of public drama on screen, as it did in real life all those many years ago.
It says much for the concentration of his artistry and the effortless relaxation of his platform manner – something that invariably puts an audience into receptive mode – that this hardly seemed to matter.
I might also mention Cate Blanchett reinventing the single word "eureka" as Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Desire" or Kathleen Turner pronouncing "abandoned" as Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Such moments offer vital reminders that, in the theater, words in a script are hardly carved in stone; they are mutable, receptive creatures, always waiting to be reinvented.
Whether such elementary principles could be directly responsible of the observed distribution of receptive profiles is a question that can hardly find an answer.
