Sentence examples for passive qualities from inspiring English sources

The work thus modelled, the Tuscans set in a furnace, but the clay showed not those passive qualities which usually attend its nature, to subside and be condensed upon the evaporation of the moisture, but rose and swelled out to that bulk, that, when solid and firm, notwithstanding the removal of the roof and opening the walls of the furnace, it could not be taken out without much difficulty.

The elements transmute into one another in virtue of their active and passive qualities (DOS 249).

But as with his protest songs, they had a markedly passive quality, a view of uncontrollable events that had occurred and seemed destined to be repeated.

My guess is because it's aggressively about female sexual appetite - female sexuality as a weapon rather than the typically portrayed passive quality of "sexiness" that exists only at the behest of the male gaze.

This acrobatic lift is often seen these days in ballet, but most ballerinas perform it with a desperate and all-too-passive quality; Ms. Robinson showed precisely how it should be done, with a firm arc through her thigh, spine and arms — radiating energy like force of mind.

Passive operative qualities enable someone "rightly to have, suffer, admit, or receive something" (DJN I.1.20), while active operative qualities are those by which we can morally affect or move others, as it were.

The ferroin solution exhibits higher accuracy and more stable than blue dot solution in determining passive film quality.

We show that Ge-rich Si1 xGex virtual substrates can act as a passive, high-quality optical waveguide on which low-temperature, epitaxial growth of Ge quantum-well devices can be realized.

Though it may also be classed as a passive moral quality (as in allowing someone rightly [recte] to receive things), it is active insofar as it permits us to command persons and possess things.

The National Building Research Organization of Sri Lanka established a passive air quality monitoring network in 2001 covering 15 locations in the Colombo city to monitor SO2 and NO2[ 14].

There is, indeed, an oddly passive-aggressive quality to "Seeing Mary Plain": Kiernan never attacks McCarthy directly, but plants spiteful little quotations throughout.