Sentence examples for looks passive from inspiring English sources

It looks passive when you want to be strong," Mr. Baum wrote.

Once she was lively ("The bane of the place," says an older zookeeper); now she looks passive and glum, quieted by age and arthritis.

I am seated next to someone who later compliments me for being a "fast Instagrammer" and another woman who looks passive-aggressively angry when I drop my pen on the ground, underneath her seat.

Alderson's patience in building for the future sometimes makes him look passive.

Dirrell, 20, who looked so valiant on Thursday against Yordani Despaigne Herrera of Cuba looked passive against Golovkin.

Watching a patient being spoonfed, I was surprised to note that he didn't look passive or babyish.

They made Seton Hall's front line of 6-foot-9 Griffin and 6-11 Samuelooklembert look passive in the paint.

Thus it is not surprising that good zone defense teams (Dallas in 2011 and now the Spurs) are a nightmare for LeBron and make him look passive.

Subtly judging or trying to change your relative will only make you look passive-aggressive, or worse, aggressive.

It is a fact of life around the team that the defense always looks more passive when cornerback Jason Sehorn is either sidelined or playing hurt.

We have already seen this principle at work in Augustine, who defines sin as the will's turning away from God. Kierkegaard, who was especially attuned to the subtleties of human self-deception, points out that what looks like passive ignorance is always in fact an active ignoring.