Sentence examples for passive actor from inspiring English sources

(He argues convincingly, for one, that Nijinsky, portrayed by past biographers as a passive actor in a game of Swap the Boy Toy, was in fact an active pursuer of the maestro).

It might appear that Lin Hong holds all the cards, but actually that's not the case — throughout she is a passive actor, waiting for Li Hanlin to chastise himself, waiting for him to put things right.

"Far from the stereotype of the passive actor being fed his lines by myriad scriptwriters and directors, Reagan was an avid reader of conservative periodicals like Human Events and National Review, as well as of leading theoreticians of the post-World War II conservative movement," the former Reagan staff member Jeffrey Bell argued in February.

On the other hand, and here my students were silent, Susan was not a passive actor in this case.

BUT, what won't work is dropping you into a virtual seat at a stadium, concert, or putting you into a movie as a passive actor.

The region is treated as a passive actor in its own history a history that, to most Westerners, always seems to begin with colonialism, ignoring the vast treasures and accomplishments that pre-dated European knowledge of the continent. .

Those passive actors become part of the problem because athletes quickly assess the boundaries and subsequently know what they can expect to get away with".

The flaw in the report is that it treats American consumers as passive actors who are victims of diminishing supplies, rising costs and government bias against the meat industry.

However, most studies treat MNC subsidiaries as relatively passive actors.

In particular, we note the individualistic premise of current literature in which individuals are treated as isolated and passive actors.

The dominant directors and passive actors were girls and the action-oriented and content-oriented students were boys.