This is an incredibly passive expression that requires a split-second action with little to no long-term repercussions.
At forty years old, she affects a passive, stoic expression that transforms startlingly into one of unguarded felicity when she is amused something that, while we spoke, happened often.
This approach differs from passive expression, which involves being angry without saying anything, and aggressive expression, which generally manifests as an explosion or outburst that generally seems disproportionate to the problem.
But although colds afflict us all, the kind of unabashed hacking that you hear from people who don't even seem to be trying to control themselves has to be a passive-aggressive expression of boredom.
The suited trio all looked relaxed and stared straight ahead with passive expressions as the sentences were read out.
The rapid loss of DNA methylation cannot be easily accounted for by a passive mechanism, because expression of the maintenance methylase Dnmt1 or its vital cofactor Uhrf1 were unaffected; Uhrf1 is repressed in PGCs (Kurimoto et al., 2008).
In films and photographs of Cut Piece, as it is called, Ono maintains a passive deferential pose and expression as women and, more disturbingly, men cut off more and more of her clothing until she's kneeling in her underwear.
The lack of methylation at CpG islands has long been assumed to have a passive role in gene expression, leaving the DNA easily accessible and available for transcription factors to bind and initiate transcription.
An active strategy was associated with higher expression of the dopaminergic synthetic enzyme, while a passive strategy was associated with decreased expression of the serotonergic synthetic enzyme.
A passive viewing task with dynamic facial expressions was used in a randomized placebo controlled between-subjects design.
