Sentence examples for passive language from inspiring English sources

Conversely, inexact and passive language reflects gaps in thinking.

This passive language is hard to square with the blatant nature of the scheme.

A law clerk who submitted a draft memo could expect to watch the judge draw lines through passive language and circle split infinitives.

He spoke of his online interactions using oddly passive language, explaining that with Indy-Girl he didn't understand how "things got talking".

Lastly, we tested the recommended passive language fMRI protocols in a cohort of very young patients and confirmed reliable language-specific activation patterns in that challenging cohort.

In this study we validate passive language fMRI protocols designed for clinical application in pediatric epilepsy surgical planning as they do not require overt participation from patients.

Oblique language and passive terminology cannot obscure a foundational truth of this era, one that we've become comfortable with not discussing: we are all anchored to a time and place, all connected to a nation or region or culture or religion, in conflict with another.

Make your point again, without using passive aggressive language.

Don't undermine your relationship capital with passive aggressive language.

Here, instead of helping Angie's List, the "passive conduit" language counterproductively potentially exacerbates its liability.

Rothstein critiqued textbooks published by TCI (History Alive!), Pearson-Prentice Hall, and Holt McDougall for their passive, misleading language.