Sentence examples for oddly passive from inspiring English sources
Mr. Chabon also describes himself as oddly passive.
Indeed, throughout the talks, Mr. Arafat seemed oddly passive.
Although he is oddly passive and childlike, Roky does not seem fragile.
Like Pechorin, Adam is sometimes emotionless but is also abruptly changeable — sometimes oddly histrionic, and at other moments oddly passive.
Dwyane Wade looked tentative and oddly passive on the loose balls and scrambles that typically bring out his best moments.
Sesto, the emperor's friend and betrayer, sings in "Deh per questo istante solo" of deep regret in a tone as oddly passive as a prepared statement.
There is, indeed, an oddly passive-aggressive quality to "Seeing Mary Plain": Kiernan never attacks McCarthy directly, but plants spiteful little quotations throughout.
It is Paul Wittgenstein who remains the charismatic center of this family portrait, but Mr. Waugh spends too much time tediously recounting every up and down of his musical career, and too little time probing the roots of his oddly passive-aggressive attitude toward his siblings.
I remember that she was conscious and seemed comfortable, though she was oddly somnolent, passive.
Hillary has been oddly off-kilter, passive and muted.
Passive aggression or passiveness.
