Sentence examples for it is passive from inspiring English sources
But in the long run, it is passive.
It is passive in forums on financial regulation.
It is "passive", because it uses ambient radiation to illuminate the target.
It is passive, like not answering pages or phone calls, and tends toward the subtle: condescension rather than outright abuse, and aggressive or sarcastic remarks rather than straightforward insults.
So he resolved to do better by borrowing and improving on another technique, the ultrasonic scanning that is used to look at fetuses in the womb.Vibration-response imaging, as Dr Kushnir calls his invention, is better than ultrasonic scanning because it is passive.
It is passive-aggressive behavior, the donning of a mask of amiability that conceals raw antagonism toward one's competitors, even one's friends.
I think that's more of an obsessive, OCD, than it is passive-aggressive.
I mean, I guess it is passive-aggressive: you're not saying what's pissing you off.
For myself, I'm rather attracted to a different sort of passivity (well, maybe it's passive aggressive) -- the genteel coddling of the Victorian invalid.
"It was passive learning".
