Sentence examples for passive seeing from inspiring English sources

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Likewise, we need to reserve energy as well as time for the pursuit of leisure or else, according to Russell, "pleasures become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on [... as a result of our] active energies being fully taken up with work".

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In situations where conflict has appeared, the public have been called passive (see Bucchi 2008) or indifferent (Bodmer 1985) for not informing themselves about the relevant technology.

As discussed above, solvent extraction [52], [53] can release compounds from within the insect body, while DART and UV-LDI techniques [21], [24] and far from passive (see the movie in the supplemental data for Yew,2008 [24] and the Fig. 1G & H, in Yew, 2009 [21]) and both could elicit a leak of the ejaculatory bulb secretion onto the male cuticle.

Because it requires energy to operate, it can retain or recruit functional entities: this explains part of the controversy surrounding the concept, which is usually assumed to be purely passive (see however the widely spread Spencerian "selection of the fittest" (Spencer 1864), which assumes implicitly some mechanism permitting comparison between fit and unfit organisms).

It's not simply the passive experience of seeing a talk online, but the active experience of sharing that with another person.

It is not really a type of stretching but is a technique of combining passive stretching (see section Passive Stretching) and isometric stretching (see section Isometric Stretching) in order to achieve maximum static flexibility.

But there's something overwhelmingly passive about seeing so many gnomes en-masse.

Her manipulations of Ignacio provide a visceral antidote to infantilizing narratives of illness; Lina's behavior is predatory rather than passive, and "Seeing Red" becomes a searing commentary on the limits of family relationships and the cruelty that, under duress, we are capable of exerting on those we love.

(For a more extensive account of the relationship between active and passive covariance, see the Supplementary Document: Active and Passive Covariance).[2] The exercising of this freedom is the essential manipulation of the hole argument.

Participants could be broadly categorised into those who actively sought out information about CAM (pro-active seekers) and those who took a more passive stance and simply picked up information that came their way (passive recipients) (see Appendix 6).

For more on network monitoring projects etc. (including passive monitoring) see Interesting web sites for Internet Monitoring.

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