It's not uncommon for colleagues to occasionally make passive-aggressive remarks to one another over particularly sensitive issues or when they feel they can't be direct.
But occasionally your passive-aggressiveness will meet its match and a person will respond in kind, either saying something or gifting in kind.
The question arising now is whether infection of plants by Salmonella in the soil occasionally occurs via passive and nonselective mechanisms or whether infection underlies active bacterial infection processes employed by Salmonella.
Did you spend it stewing in resentment and anger at your rivals and haters and occasionally make cryptic passive-aggressive comments on social media?
She allows herself to be picked up by strange men in bars, is generally passive and occasionally reckless, and reserves her expressions of affection and deep emotion for her tragic, sexless, literary friend, Birdmann (Ewen Leslie).
They occasionally sagged on defense, were passive on offense, and somehow allowed Gary Neal and Green, both of whom are normally just role players for the Spurs, to resemble the second and third coming of Michael Jordan, respectively.
Because a never-beatable game will not succeed in a casino, the machine was programmed to occasionally play in a weak, passive style, seeming to reduce the game's edge and re-engaging casual players.
"Africans themselves are typically limited to the role of passive victims, or occasionally brutal or corrupt villains and incompetents; they are not otherwise shown to have any agency or even the normal range of human thoughts and emotions," the letter reads.
As fine as the GL is to drive, its many electronic assistants preview a world in which driving is a passive endeavor interrupted only occasionally by some malfunction in the matrix that requires human intervention.
We'll go from being a passive venue where you occasionally interact with friends, to an active entertainment venue.
Passive aggression or passiveness.
