The phrase "passive life" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lifestyle characterized by a lack of active engagement or initiative.
Example: "After years of living a passive life, she decided it was time to take control and pursue her dreams."
Alternatives: "inactive lifestyle" or "laid-back existence."
Aomame's strangely passive life, in which she administers death to her victims with a single sterile needle applied to a point at the base of the brain, is only given purpose, we come to learn, by the memory of a single act of affection.
Retention areas are important for fish recruitment when a species is going through passive life history stages where they cannot easily swim [20].
In addition, participants described living a passive life after the injury, isolated and withdrawn from social events.
The power strategies used by the men in the relationships did not result in a totally passive life for the women.
Low effort might represent passive life orientation or lifestyle, which was manifested also with single risk factors: in our data, low effort was associated with a higher likelihood of sedentary lifestyle and being overweight.
An increasingly passive life-style in the Western World has led to a rise in life-style related disorders.
An increasingly passive life-style in the Western World has led to a growth of life-style disorders already in childhood.
Or our bard of the beach, Tim Winton, in his new book Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir: At the beach I wasn't just passive, letting life happen to me; I didn't care about being smart or popular, I didn't long to be better looking.
Hence one of the problems left unexplained within this conceptual framework is how this cognitive development relates to our passive emotional life 'designed' by genes.
For so long, he says, he sailed through life; passive, unchallenged, unambitious.
He is an alert but passive recorder of life's small dramas, always exquisitely described.
