The man, Walter Gadsden, with his eyes lowered, has a passive look.
But 50 years ago last month, a letter to the magazine Nature ended the passive, look-up-and-ponder attitude by proposing a scientific, experimental approach.
In a democracy, the people do not adopt a passive role, looking feebly to some wise prince to lead us to a more enlightened future.
Most online sex estimates place active online sexual activity around the 2% mark (versus passive, like looking at pictures and videos), whereas the vast majority of the people I surveyed between April and December 2006 have had at least one sexual encounter in the virtual world.
The other attendees at the seminar are shown to be passive consumers looking for any way to fix their personal issues.
"Voluntourism" is one of the fastest-growing segments of the travel industry and it's about seeing the world from a firsthand perspective, rather than as a passive tourist looking through a window.
These ventures address the traditional problem of persuading young people to become interested in culture: that a significant proportion of students find it too distancing and passive to look at a statue or listen to an orchestra.
Unfortunately, as written, her character is so passive (she looks on, mute and immobile, as one of her best friends is kicked to death by Billy's thugs) that it is hard to maintain sympathy for her as the movie's moral center.
In other words, passive clauses look much more like their active counterparts in underlying structure.
