"In fact if you have to attach urgency to the task of dealing with one or the other, the more urgent task would be Hezbollah and Iran - Assad has almost become a passive player here.
Andrea Chamberlain is a passive, almost resistant, Ruby.
At times, Ibrahimovic can seem such a passive, almost uninterested performer.
The remain camp, supporting an imperfect status quo, were partly lulled into complacency by poll numbers and a passive, almost academic attitude to the outcome, which they believed erred in their favor.
Such an approach might neglect the patient agenda, situating the patient as a passive, almost translucent recipient of integrated services.
Part of Mr. Kimbrough's originality takes the form of an almost passive or Zenlike approach to an active situation; his solo in an urgent piece called "Groveling" was a sustained rubato rhapsody, and otherwise he plays cloudlike chords where you would normally expect rhythmic stabs.
Too often, we think of love as an almost passive state of being, as opposed to a conscious choice we make.
This is because in its purest form this interpretation seems to make perception an almost completely passive affair, something which occurs automatically whenever the ingredients of perception share a discrete locale.
He writes: "Unexpectedly, it's Judy who makes the first move for a mouth-to-mouth kiss (they've only brushed cheeks before), and Dean who reciprocates in an almost passive way.
He is driven less by bold vision than by a desire to get elected (and settle scores), less by real strength than by unfocused ambition, and less by courage than by an almost passive acquiescence in disastrous plans that the people he empowered pursued in his name.
