I think if you are in a position where you can give back and you don't, that's kind of a passive form of being a bad person.
She is also unmarried and in love with Thor -- a love he returns in a guarded, passive kind of way.
If an adventure story is often a tale of growing to maturity through self-knowledge, then Motion's Jim Hawkins remains a peculiarly passive kind of adventurer: his self-awakening, such as it is, occurs in relation to his feelings for Nat, rather than through the completion of a quest.
There are two types of noise cancellation: the "passive" kind, which blocks out sounds with a physical barrier (think earplugs), and the "active" kind, which is the technology that you'll find in noise-cancelling headphones.
Elsewhere the students enjoy great moral support, but of the passive kind.
"We were just kind of passive, kind of letting them dictate what they wanted to do to us," he said.
If you're more the passive kind of saver, then having Target text you ongoing mobile coupons might be the way to go.
Mr. Johns has spent a career creating visual enigmas of a passive-aggressive kind.
"In Japan, that sticker set represents a hidden but lingering anger that you can't really show, a passive-aggressive kind of anger.
But it's pretty clear that people are totally OK with animal cruelty in general, as long as it's a passive, easy-to-ignore kind of cruelty, like jamming chickens in tiny cages and abusing pigs (that link is pretty rough).
