"Unreceptive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... BYRNE the Lord Mayor of DUBLIN has been grossly insulted by a high Irish official, who must be made to apologise or resign. Again Mr. DUKE was unreceptive. He had seen the LORD MAYOR, who disclaimed any responsibility for his self-constituted champion. Mr. BYRNE should now be known as "the cuckoo in ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, October 31, 1917 • Various
... waited to allow his philosophy to sink into minds which might prove unreceptive. Finding that there was no likelihood ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy
... moment, but whose conversation is. It was about a canal; what canal I did not gather, though, from a name dropped, I afterwards identified it as one in course of construction as a feeder to the Ems. The point is that the subject was canals. At the moment it was seed dropped in unreceptive soil, but it germinated later. I passed on, mingling with the crowd, and was soon asleep again in another carriage where Bhme this time did ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers
... surprising demonstration. It would hardly have been credited, had it not there been made manifest, that Jesus had so strong a hold upon any section of the population of Jerusalem. In the capital He had always found the soil very unreceptive. Jerusalem was the headquarters of rabbinic learning and priestly arrogance—the home of the Pharisee and the Sadducee, who guided public opinion; and there, from first to last, He had made few adherents. It was in the provinces, especially in Galilee, that He ...
— The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ - A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion • James Stalker |
