Sentence examples for merely passive from inspiring English sources

Theirs is actually larger, being chosen, while that of the French is merely passive.

Without wars or colonial adventures they appear merely passive and unassertive, with no clear identity.

But Lebanon's campuses are not merely passive reflections of the adult political scene.

In most other cases, however, the goddess is no merely passive object for lubricious meditation.

Targets that are not merely passive acceptors but those that signal into the cell are preferred.

I believe that education functions best when students are not merely passive recipients, but collaborative creators, of knowledge.

But the two artists are not, as Isherwood would have it, merely passive recorders of passing scenes.

Unlike "Game of Thrones," whose plot twists settled naturally into the form of TV cliffhangers, "Olive Kitteridge" is a densely psychological story, whose main character, played by McDormand with radical intelligence, is not merely cranky but passive.

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

Instead, spokesmen for the Kochs and for Meredith say that the brothers intend to act merely as "passive" investors.

What's more, instead of merely the passive experience of TV they have an active relationship with their screens.