| He looked like a singer on crack, and pitched his unfunny jokes to an unreceptive crowd. |
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| Many of us were concerned about his increasing forgetfulness, but he had been unreceptive to gentle suggestions about downsizing or getting help. |
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| Ted gets ever more gooey over Emmett, who is initially unreceptive but ultimately smitten. |
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| The problem, she felt, was that the editor who ran the news meetings appeared unreceptive to story ideas different from his own. |
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| Not bad for a people commentators sometimes suggest may be pathologically unreceptive to democracy. |
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| We are often told that establishment taste is parochial, obtuse and unreceptive to novelty. |
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| Some of this is not very good science and probably has the effect of making hardcore smokers cynical and unreceptive to change. |
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| Coarse advances toward potentially unreceptive acquaintances are incompatible with the dignity of one's position. |
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| Oh I know, it's new music, it's challenging, the public is unreceptive to new music until they've heard it a dozen times over two decades. |
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| Yet, brought to an extreme, a cohesive team can be complacent and unreceptive to new ideas that challenge the status quo. |
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| We observed the pair's behaviors continuously until the snails either became unreceptive, achieved mutual copulation, or were separated before copulating. |
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| Establishments may thus tend to be rather unreceptive and to remain aloof from the life of their surroundings. |
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| His voice 'shouting in the desert' is also a chance for humankind to prepare their sinful, unreceptive and barren hearts for Jesus' ministry. |
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| The Prussian government meanwhile remained utterly unreceptive to his ideas. |
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| Like Johnson, Brownlow was resolutely unreceptive to the concerns of the plantation aristocracy. |
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| When the judge was unreceptive to his request, Mr. Schwartz appeared to throw up his hands. |
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| At the same time, most Western museums are still unreceptive to new work from elsewhere. |
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| Saddam Hussein has been given every warning, but he is quite clearly unreceptive to our demands, and we are merely signalling our own weakness. |
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| In general, universities did not understand the competency framework and were therefore unreceptive to it. |
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| Unfortunately, first generation immigrants residing in Europe are almost always unreceptive to the host culture. |
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| Peru is the only South American country unreceptive to this idea, although perhaps the next government will decide to incorporate. |
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| One explanation offered is that the attitudes and culture of both management and labour are unreceptive to change. |
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| In essence, an unreceptive working environment may result in not only unfair treatment, but also an ineffective use of human resources. |
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| Clément arrived shortly afterwards, his hands in his pockets and an unreceptive expression on his face. |
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| My interlocutors were and still are quite unreceptive to these arguments. |
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| First, small firms form the seedbed for many, if not most, important innovations, in part because large firms are generally unreceptive to new ideas. |
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| With the pressures of liberalization and internationalization, the man in power both lacked ways of actively solving these issues and was unreceptive to suggestions. |
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| While Washington so far had been unreceptive to his overtures, he was aware that a prompt commitment of Australian forces would improve the chances of such a pact. |
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| But those of us who had to watch the game on the box he sounded more like a teacher instructing unreceptive pupils rather than internationals well-versed in the laws. |
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| Projects are far too often made in the image of their promoters, who are overly concerned about living up to the original program, unwilling to let gaps open up, and unreceptive to new demands. |
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| These countries were naturally extremely unreceptive to developing countries' call for a mechanism which would in any way make demands on the private sector to transfer technology to potential competitors. |
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| The French audience today is unfortunately a little unreceptive to auteur films that deal with tough subjects that are attracting fewer and fewer viewers from year to year. |
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| However, we're not unreceptive to new discoveries or out-of-this-world films that fall into our lap without warning, as was indeed the case with The Father of My Children. |
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| It also takes into account the scope of communication as well as the action or purpose: is it to convey information, explain, defend a position, or persuade an unreceptive interlocutor? |
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| First, plummeting fertility and rapid population ageing have spurred the concern about labour shortages in a country which, historically, has been unreceptive to immigration. |
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| The government, however, was unreceptive to these complaints. |
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| Granted charities with unpopular views might find audiences unreceptive, but government should make no apology for supporting the ability of such groups to speak out. |
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| He had to do battle with the mujtahids and mullahs, members of the religious class, who were unreceptive to the idea of a Bāb who would supersede their authority and provide another avenue to the Truth. |
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| If they oppose him outright, they may look unreceptive to reform. |
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| As stockmarkets are spectacularly unreceptive, most are choosing the latter course. The lack of capital is particularly explosive at the moment because banks' annual financial statements are falling due. |
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