Sentence examples for passive boyfriend from inspiring English sources

Theatergoers will have barely settled into their seats at "Reasons to Be Pretty," which makes its Broadway debut this week at the Lyceum, before they will be jolted by the profanity-laced rant of a young woman directed at her passive boyfriend all because he told a friend she had a "regular" face.

The conceit – a mildly pompous cookery writer, puttering with amiably passive aggression between boyfriend, agent and deadlines – works well enough but, seen in real-time rather than radio-imagined, it is just so relentlessly London middle-class as to be both its main point and chief drawback.

If your boyfriend is acting passive toward you, it doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't love you.

Don't stay passive to a friends or boyfriends criticism of your body.

In response, my boyfriend sometimes initiates a passive protest and leaves the bins to overflow (unfortunately for him, I don't usually notice).

Passive aggression or passiveness.

She admired Nancy, she said a few years ago, because "she was adventuresome, daring, and her boyfriend was a much more passive type than she was".

"Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend.

"Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend," she told The Guardian.

"I've been passive," says Zoe, a young nursery-school teacher whose life loses its focus after she breaks up with a boyfriend.

"I was passive super passive".