Sentence examples for passive style from inspiring English sources

He played in his old, crouched, passive style, moving in a jerky way.

The active style was indicated by hostile perfectionistic strivings whereas the passive style was indicated by avoidance and emotion suppression.

He said Leggett's "very passive" style has contributed to a civic malaise sapping the county of its will to address difficult issues.

But having a vague frame imposed on the manager (such as "empower your people") may provide little real help and risks evoking a passive style of management (unless, of course, the manager sharpens it).

She heads the world's most populous Muslim country but has a famously passive style and has been reluctant to cross her vice president, Hamzah Haz, and other prominent supporters of the groups.

Because a never-beatable game will not succeed in a casino, the machine was programmed to occasionally play in a weak, passive style, seeming to reduce the game's edge and re-engaging casual players.

In fact, I even opined about this topic in this very column about a sort of "cyclicality" of tradeoff between active and passive styles, reasoning that neither one is permanent.

In Shoalhaven Heads, NSW, Australia a horizontal array of passive-style sand traps were deployed on a beach for 600 or 1200 s across a horizontal span of 0.80 m.

Consistently, long-attack-latency (LAL) mice are characterized by a "passive" coping style, while short-attack-latency (SAL) mice show an "active" coping style [12] [14].

Many members of the Council of 2002 said that a Green mayoralty would have led them to support a more passive, caretaker style of leadership in the Council.

Encouraged by Onions's quiet but forceful enthusiasm for new ways of making radio news, they pioneered a wide range of techniques that shook up the rather passive, traditional style that had characterised radio news before competition.