Sentence examples for passive acts from inspiring English sources

"I understand much of the internet trolling, the shit flinging, the active and passive acts of oppression are about pushing me and people like me out," she writes.

This suggests that Fendrr cannot be acting simply as a DNA enhancer, although we cannot rule out the passive act of transcription as being functional.

Being the object of theft is a passive act.

But what if the apparently passive act of observation changes the way they behave?

It feels much more like a collaboration than a passive act of consumption.

Not only is more money typically involved, but not reporting income is a passive act, requiring no asserted claim.

I need some visual stimulation, so that reading becomes not just a passive act and more than an intellectual activity, but demands rigorous participation...

Now, to my mind, there's a world of difference between the passive act of watching TV and the self-driven, active world of children's software.

Though the lengthy shots become more varied, even noisy, the audience is still invited to experience beyond the passive act of looking.

In several stories, women come to accept the vices of husbands and lovers, their fondness for drink, their irresistibility to women, but acquiescence is not a passive act, a sign of defeat.

Sitting in the dark watching plays may seem a passive act, but the message is clear: we shouldn't accommodate, as the couple do in Jack Thorne's dark satirical comedy, Whiff Whaff, but take action.