Sentence examples for appear passive from inspiring English sources

The team may appear passive on the field or in the dugout, but there is solid leadership and sound thinking.

Often, "Nancy's face wears the blank expression of one lost in thought," making her appear passive.

The child may appear passive on the outside but, inside, a piece of that child withers away.

Of perhaps greater concern is the fact that the other two branches appear passive, if not inert, in the face of expanding executive power.

Leonard Stein described the interaction between doctors and nurses in his seminal paper The Doctor-Nurse Game [ 52]: "The object of the game is as follows: the nurse is to be bold, have initiative, and be responsible for making significant recommendations, while at the same time she must appear passive.

However, other cells that also appeared "passive," as judged by their spherical appearance, had membrane tensions that increased as the apparent surface area was increased.

All this while appearing passive, if not helpless, on the world stage.

But let too many blows go unmatched, and he risks appearing passive, not to mention ending up unconscious.

Every morning he appeared, passive, vacant, & she would ask him "Are you all right?" although she really meant: Ask me how I am; but she was his mother & he would not.

In this disorder there is a disinclination to interact with others; the individual appears passive, aloof, and withdrawn, and there is a notable lack of interest in and responsiveness to interpersonal relationships.

But throughout the city (in spite of the title of this book, it ranges from the Bronx to Coney Island), many forms of rejection were appearing: passive resistance, mockery, occasional violence (raids by Prohibition agents on blue-collar saloons often ended in vicious brawls), sneering contempt and, above all, guile.