Sentence examples for rather than receptive from inspiring English sources

Are all the people who were detained going to be released?" As a result, the national mood, activists say, is bitter and angry, rather than receptive to calls for reconciliation.

The use of a language laterality index derived from an expressive, rather than receptive, fMRI task that activates the frontal lobe may also be a limiting factor, given that the targeted surgical area is the temporal lobe.

However, the results of recent incidence studies among MSM suggest that oro-genital sex, rather than receptive anal sex, is an important mode of HHV-8 transmission [ 8- 10].

Froebel's methods, based on Johann Pestalozzi's ideas, were rooted in the premise that man is essentially active and creative rather than merely receptive.

His eyes are open and receptive, rather than blinded by familiarity: censorship of Japanese cinema during the American occupation, while "not exactly a secret", is "something that people keep on forgetting to mention"; the popularity, during the silent era, of the narrator-explainer or benshi shows that Japanese audiences, rather than fetishising implication, had always "wanted things spelled out".

("You're going to a Quentin Tarantino film. You've never seen one before. It would be a normal thing to say, 'So how are you with blood?' ") "The trick is to find a way to get us open and receptive rather than defensive," she told me.

The peoples of Southeast Asia were once thought to have shared a lack of inventiveness since prehistoric times and to have been "receptive" rather than "creative" in their contacts with foreign civilizations.

It is a commendation of a style of action that consists in being receptive rather than aggressive, following from behind rather than leading in front, accommodating rather than confrontational, and being flexible and ready to change with the situation rather than rigid and operating from general predetermined principles.

It has been suggested that the early observations about a lack of stigma in Africa were due to a lack of research on the ground rather than a more culturally receptive attitude to mental illness [ 2].

Teaching yourself to relax, to tune things out, and to be receptive – rather than reactive – to the moment enhances your ability to receive cues around you.[39].[39]

Because we used the entire receptive period instead of the fertile phase, we avoided overestimating female synchrony by calculating overall female synchrony during receptive periods of the mating season rather than considering specific numbers of females receptive on given days.