You feel what a delicate instrument the man is, how every sense has been tuned to the finest responsiveness.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
The charm of her company, apart from the kindliness of her manner, lay in an immediate responsiveness to all that was going on around her, and the sense her talk and presence conveyed of a life controlled by a homely, dignified, strenuous tradition.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
If necessary she might even weave the German for giants, umbrellas, keys, and spectacles into a sentence as a conversational opening, and try her mother-in-law with that; and if Frau Dremmel showed the least responsiveness to either of these subjects she might go on to wax, fingers, thunder, and beards, and end with princes, boats, and shoulders.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim