I discovered the value of nearly passive listening in the late 1980s, while taking in a program of Milton Babbitt's piano works performed by Robert Taub.
Gone are the days when C.E.O.'s bought largely unrelated companies and held them in nearly passive portfolios of assets without seeking to transform their managements, processes or products.
In marine applications, a flow field grid describing the water movement usually forms the basis for movement of passive or nearly passive biomass.
I'm not nearly as passive aggressive as she can be, but I used to be.
While she'd remembered him as passive, nearly saintlike, now she saw that he was impatient and often surly with the men he approached, and manipulative in the way he tried to get them to agree to what he wanted, sizing up their vulnerabilities and saying whatever was necessary to convince them.
The four main aspects for energy efficiency in a building include first and foremost the nearly zero energy passive building design before actual construction, secondly the usage of low energy building materials during its construction, thirdly use of energy efficient equipments for low operational energy requirement and lastly integration of renewable energy technologies for various applications.
For Beth, who lumps American imperialism with "the death camps that had nearly killed her father," passive resistance is tantamount to the acquiescence of the "good German".
Over the potential range between −0.8 and −0.1 V, the capacitance was nearly constant, for those passive films formed at lower potentials (−0.5, −0.3, −0.2, −0.1 and 0.1 V).
They nearly perfectly excluded our passive permeation marker MBP-Cherry and yet allowed a very efficient intra-particle accumulation of the NTR⋅cargo complex Impβ⋅IBB-GFP, reaching again a particle:buffer partition coefficient of around 200.
But Mr. Alverson, as a director, is nearly as affectless and passive-aggressive as Swanson, who, out of boredom or hostility (same difference), enjoys humiliating people he takes to be his social inferiors: a male nurse, a cabdriver, his sister-in-law — basically anyone who is a woman or who works for a living.
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