Sentence examples for felt passive from inspiring English sources

Where before, the citizens felt passive and immobile, part of the furniture of the world, a thing among things, they come to experience themselves as agents, as actors in their own drama.

Csikszentmihalyi supplements one of his books, "Finding Flow", with many charts of subjects who calculated the hours of the days when they felt active attention -- and happiness -- and when they felt passive.

He feels passive toward it.

We have a bewildering array of choice when we walk into a supermarket, but feel passive recipients of state largesse.' So is that a 'yes'yes

It is telling that another colleague said that seeing an "x" signoff from colleagues made him feel passive aggressive when he didn't reply with the same loving touch.

It makes any apology feel passive and any delivery aggressive.

The reviewer said it is unfortunate because the readers feels passive, which is not desirable in a crime series.

I care as much as I ever have, but I experience it in a way that feels passive and inert - like perusing a photo album of myself when I still believed caring mattered.

It finally feels passive-aggressive, as with the relative who requires 10 minutes of urging to take the last cream puff ("Should I? No, really…").

In Game 2 of the first round of the playoffs, she said she felt so passive that teammates asked her what was wrong.

"I think unsure writers also feel the passive voice somehow lends their work authority, perhaps even a quality of majesty," he says.