Well, "confront" is not quite the right word, considering that the monologuist directs her passive-aggressive rage at a closed bedroom door, behind which an unseen Helen is very loudly en flagrante.
To think of the years I've wasted putting up with your bullying, your insults, your impotent, passive-aggressive rage.... Don't blame me for your low self-esteem, roundboy, it's not my fault you've been living on nothing but fruit and fish since 1964 but haven't lost an ounce!
For writers who aren't straight, cis, white men, the already steep uphill road to publication is complicated by issues of cultural translation, representation, passive and microaggressions, rage, and assimilation, among others.
During the 1990's, while the bull market raged, passive index funds regularly trounced the majority of their actively managed counterparts.
Years afterwards, the very mention of his name still had the power to drive this usually passive woman into a rage; in 1998, she claimed he had sadistically abused her.
Not the passive withdrawn kind, but the raging that incinerated all before it.
Take a passive approach in dealing with road rage.
Passive aggression or passiveness.
For example, your e-mails to your boss are fairly run of the mill on the surface, but AdSense has noticed that your tone is passive-aggressive and signifies a marked repressed rage.
The Philadelphia Inquirer gave a positive review of Beghe's performance in Monkey Shines: "Acting only with his face and voice, Jason Beghe is terrific at conveying the mounting anger and rage of an active man made passive".
