Sentence examples for passive object from inspiring English sources

In other words, the passive object rather than the active subject.

In most other cases, however, the goddess is no merely passive object for lubricious meditation.

They added that his dementia would make him a passive "object of prosecution".

The Alice we know is not a neurotic's projection onto a passive object but an artist's tribute to a remarkable woman, albeit a very small one.

But she is the perfect, passive object for a priceless, competitive serenade from Deeley and Anna, who court Kate with snatches of vintage romantic ballads.

By romanticising Kinsey as the passive object of a seduction, rather than showing him as a lurker in a public lavatory, the movie makes him more straightforwardly sympathetic.

But they are not passive objects of admiration.

The poor were no longer passive objects of pity.

When these women are passive objects, the pageant revels in and profits from their sexual attractiveness.

Meanwhile, glossy fashion magazines groom women and girls to become beautiful but passive objects of male desire.

Never passive objects of the male gaze, they might be personifications of the artist's own creative unconscious.