Sentence examples for about the passive from inspiring English sources

This place cries to be written about — the passive, shuffling crowds, crowds everywhere, levelled off, everyone the same.

With the strength of a convert, Richter raves about the "passive" delights of bookstores and movie theaters, the physical energy he can expend cycling or playing tennis or walking around the city, or the delights of a decent meal at midnight after a game.

The defectors were particularly worried about the passive indifference of the American public who never seemed to notice that they'd lost control of a public asset: the airwaves.

Many critics (including myself) worry about the passive "sage on the stage" model of learning that MOOCs exemplify, but what I want to talk about here, along with games, is the non-academic side of residential colleges.

When the author deftly alludes to Christine's attitude to smoking — something "which the countess did not really allow indoors, although she never forbade it" — you have all the information you need about the passive-aggressiveness that will sink the marriage.

Dr. Alan Rubin, a San Francisco endocrinologist whose "Diabetes for Dummies" is the No. 1 title in the Dummies health category, said he had some friendly discussions with his editors about the passive-voice rule.

Forget about the passive-aggressive personal attacks that have found their way onto the app for a second.

There is so much to love about the passive-aggressiveness of 1) A husband buying 15 pairs (15 pairs!) of cargo shorts, 2) A wife throwing them out behind his back, and 3) This bizarre cycle continuing for more than a decade.

He rarely accuses, preferring to talk about problems in the passive voice, as things that are amiss with us rather than as wrongs that have been perpetrated by them.

Rather than being upfront and honest when questioned about his feelings, the passive aggressive child insists, "I'm not mad" even when he is seething on the inside.

Don't worry about how the passive-aggressive person will feel; he/she will be feeling mortified that you've worked out the game.