Sentence examples for passive critics from inspiring English sources

But as many other Druids left the direct action movement and softened into casual, cultural followers or passive critics, Arthur remained planted at Stonehenge, getting himself arrested, and in his own words, "motivating by example, leading from the front".

For three of his four years in office, Dr. Crew met with the mayor weekly, and his board was so passive that critics sarcastically nicknamed it "the seven dwarfs" because it approved everything that the chancellor wanted to do.

An index should be passive, not active, critics argue; it should also be measuring market performance, rather than trying to beat it.

This scholarly paper collects "numerous published examples of incompetent criticism in which critics reveal that they cannot tell passives from actives.

But mutual funds have generally played a passive role in corporate governance, many critics say.

In Mr. Li's version all of the figures are contemporary art-world personalities — dealers, artists, critics — with Mao the passive observer of modern Chinese history re-enacted as a farce.

Passive aggression or passiveness.

As a result, when a child reads a wordless book, she inherently learns how to be a critic, not just a passive observer, of a text.

The controversies are nevertheless undermining the president; his slow, reactive, alternately passive and cavalier responses are playing into critics' hands.

In this context, the President's statement was not, as some critics have suggested, "weak" or "passive" or "spineless".

After critics had suggested it was too passive, he even showed a touch of the Paxmans when he asked Cameron six times whether people will be worse off under the proposed changes to tax credits.