Sentence examples for not very receptive from inspiring English sources

In the early 1990s, the public was not very receptive to the idea of alternative plastics.

McDougall learned that the tribe, also known as the Tarahumara, was not very receptive to strangers.

"A lot of the industry, certainly, was not very receptive to having recorders," said Jim Cash, chief of the vehicle recorder division of the safety board.

My problem was I could not shake off regret at the impossibility of meeting the real Stevie Smith, coupled with a mild unease, wondering how she would have felt about seeing herself played by an actor ("I'm not very receptive to the theatre"), inauthentically holding forth in the suburbs.

For one, the market is not very receptive to a monolithic and closed approach.

JH: I would say, in general, not very receptive at all.

"People aren't very receptive," Ms. Celik said, gesturing to Jason in his wheelchair.

The person wasn't very receptive to my enthusiasm though … That said, I would always approach somebody reading anything by Toni Morrison, Jhumpa Lahiri, or Yiyun Li.

It was pitched as police-dragnet tool, which is why our gov't unit wasn't very receptive because our mandate for addresses doesn't fit the Pentagon's or the FBI's the CIA's.

Justin Fox has an interesting post documenting something I more or less knew, but am glad to see confirmed: People aren't very receptive to evidence if it doesn't come from a member of their cultural community.

"People weren't very receptive to the product when we attempted to commercialize it… We decided to take our advisor's advice and took a few small sensors from the robot and re purposed them towards precisely tracking movement".