Sentence examples for passive kind from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere the students enjoy great moral support, but of the passive kind.

She is also unmarried and in love with Thor -- a love he returns in a guarded, passive kind of way.

"We were just kind of passive, kind of letting them dictate what they wanted to do to us," he said.

"I never considered myself very much of a passive kind of actress," she said in a 1985 interview with Fangoria magazine.

There are two types of noise cancellation: the "passive" kind, which blocks out sounds with a physical barrier (think earplugs), and the "active" kind, which is the technology that you'll find in noise-cancelling headphones.

If an adventure story is often a tale of growing to maturity through self-knowledge, then Motion's Jim Hawkins remains a peculiarly passive kind of adventurer: his self-awakening, such as it is, occurs in relation to his feelings for Nat, rather than through the completion of a quest.

I think if you are in a position where you can give back and you don't, that's kind of a passive form of being a bad person.

Not the passive withdrawn kind, but the raging that incinerated all before it.

Mr. Johns has spent a career creating visual enigmas of a passive-aggressive kind.

"In Japan, that sticker set represents a hidden but lingering anger that you can't really show, a passive-aggressive kind of anger.

The reason is that Newton held the standard view at the time that matter itself is passive, requiring some kind of divine intervention in order to interact causally with other matter.