Sentence examples for be passive to from inspiring English sources

Actors are taught to be passive, to be grateful for any work, to do as they're told.

Teachers push students to engage actively with the material, but it's easy to be passive, to absorb the information and check off the box.

"Another reason for this embrace of performance events is that they are thought to activate the viewer, who is thereby assumed, wrongly, to be passive to begin with," he writes.

I already knew that men were programmed to cut off their empathy, to expect women to be passive, to have the greatest disdain for "feminine" men and so on.

And he was passive to an absolute fault.

"His involvement is passive, to say the least," Mr. Tambussi said.

Most modern designs are passive to some extent and some newer ones are truly so.

If your husband has gone from being passive to domineering, he will seem like a very different person.

In it, he is passive to the point of losing a girlfriend he probably would have liked to have kept.

Mr. Zinn delivers a challenge when he says, "To be neutral and to be passive is to collaborate with whatever is going on".

Insurance companies can't afford to be passive or to wait until driverless cars come to market.