"The architect is completely passive, because his intelligence is only triggered by demands that he doesn't initiate himself," says Koolhaas, who gabs the way I imagine Hegel did -- dialectically.
Mr. Rumsfeld, who is known as anything but a passive consumer of intelligence at the Pentagon, foreshadowed in the ballistic missile report his current working view that senior policy makers must "engage analysts, question their assumptions and methods, seek from them what they know, what they don't know and ask them their opinions".
Reconnaissance is the military term for the passive collection of intelligence about an enemy prior to attacking that enemy.
Donald Trump is chastising his intelligence team as "passive and naive" after it contradicted his own assessment of everything from North Korea to Russia to Isis.
And you know, I think the thing with the emotional intelligence and the passive-aggressive one is if when you do have a leader who behaves this way, what you'll often find is that it then cycles through the culture of the organization.
Passive aggression or passiveness.
Army regulations limit intelligence activity by the M.P.s to passive collection.
Unlike "Game of Thrones," whose plot twists settled naturally into the form of TV cliffhangers, "Olive Kitteridge" is a densely psychological story, whose main character, played by McDormand with radical intelligence, is not merely cranky but passive.
The extent of a fabric's intelligence can be divided into three subgroups: "passive smart," "active smart" and "very smart".
"It is not unusual for hostile factions to engage in both passive and active collection against key coalition leaders," a military intelligence officer in Iraq said.
