Sentence examples for receptive mode from inspiring English sources

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.

Wordsworth has his more receptive mode as well, in which he calls for "a heart that watches and receives" (in "The Tables Turned"), and we find Emerson's receptive mode from Nature onward, as when he recounts an ecstatic experience in the woods: "I become a transparent eyeball.

After all, if we are busy questioning the world around us, aren't we in a listening and receptive mode, and not in a decisive action-taking mode?

The communicative function tasks are assessed in both receptive and expressive modes whereas the form tasks are assessed in receptive mode in the French version because of the age of the participants since they found the expressive form tasks, i.e., imitation of humming sounds, embarrassing.

It is possible that accreditation can put hospitals in a receptive, active mode for change.

The argument made is that as one goes up the scale, he moves through different modes, from Receptive through Analytic and eventually through to what is called psychosocial mode.

City officials said they were receptive to drivers' suggestions, but Ms. Mode said the industry should also work to protect itself.

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].

This proved to be very rewarding as they are, in general, more receptive to change and to new modes of thinking.

Section 2 focused on communication activities and consisted of six subsections: (a) Communicative modes, (b) Communicative functions – expressive, (c) Communicative functions – social, (d) Communicative functions – receptive, (e) Communicative effectiveness, and (f) Personal factors.

It may find a receptive audience: Priuses in Europe already have a button allowing drivers to go into all-electric mode for brief periods.