Sentence examples for merely a passive from inspiring English sources

This also implies that the reader is in control and is not merely a passive recipient of the supernatural content".

In the case, the Courts noted that the dating website (Metrosplash) was "merely a passive conduit" and "did absolutely nothing to encourage the posting of defamatory content".

The good oral historian is not merely a passive sounding board, quietly nodding while making sure the recording equipment is working.

Arctic sea ice is not merely a passive responder to the climate changes occurring around the world, according to new research.

After reading these two very different books you will never again see the eye as merely a passive receptacle of light.

Studies suggest that arm swing is not merely a passive consequence of trunk rotation during walking, but an active component of gait.

Again, he was asked whether his role was not merely as a passive angel of mercy, but as a cold-blooded killer.

Which doesn't mean that Ginsberg was merely torrential — a passive channeler of psychotic energies.

But Senate Democrats will let down those who sent them to Washington if they act merely as a passive firewall.

A remarkable point in this antisymmetric instability is that the flow and pressure perturbations merely play a passive role.

Therefore, this suggests that the tumoural stroma does not merely play a passive role in cancer progression.