Sentence examples for forms of passive from inspiring English sources

And is direct lying different from various forms of passive lying encouraging delusions, or allowing existing delusions to persist?

The loud bonhomie of Spencer (an excellent J. Bernard Calloway, Shelahh's younger son, and Mae (a vivacious Arnetia Walker) come to register as forms of passive aggression.

An important key to successful treatment of people with anxiety — including social anxiety — is overcoming freezing and other forms of passive coping.

More specifically, the zingers are forms of passive aggression that individuals use instead of recognizing and resolving underlying issues.

The filtration and the diffusion of ethanol across the membrane are forms of passive transport because no cellular energy is required.

Like contemporary enactive theorists of perception and imagery (see section 4.5 below), Plotinus does not regard either perceiving or imagining to be forms of passive receptivity, but, rather, as involving an active reaching toward the object of the experience.

(In Canada, by contrast, this form of passive searching makes you officially "unemployed").

Michael's journey to this ultimate form of passive resistance is well told.

Some form of passive pitch-resisting fin may be evolved which will accomplish its primary purpose without introducing detrimental features.

The Greens senator Scott Ludlam said the legislation contained "the DNA of both of the major parties" and "entrenches a form of passive surveillance over 23 million Australians".

Roxana Silbert's gripping RSC production, revived by the National Theatre of Scotland, shows the English army practicing an extreme form of passive aggression.