But as the devices around us move from old world passive to being able to accumulate information and offer decisions, to live with us in harmony, they will need to learn manners.
Mr. Obama defended himself against criticism that he has been too passive on the world stage, pointing to his intervention in Libya, where a revolution aided by NATO warplanes led to the death of the country's longtime dictator.
In the business world, passive income is the ultimate achievement.
She played a passive part in World War I as her role was to prevent the Germans from breaking into the Gulf of Finland, something the Germans never even tried.
MOMMY GONE!! / _ _Howl, howl, sedative, sedative, get on a fuckin' _plane selfish addict fuck! / _Hysteria, hysteria, gasp, moan, cry, asthma onset your fuckin' fault!! Sniffle, sniffle, passive-aggressive silence the world is fucking ending /Sniffle, sniffle, Valium, Seconal, airport now! /Moan, moan, audible gasp.
Here again Nishida sought to discover the topos or common space that underlies a distinction, this time between intuition or seeing as a more or less passive reception of the world and its objects, and action as the human-engendered production of the world.
Widespread passive resistance caught the world's imagination; the tanks, inevitably, triumphed.
Mr. McCain said the president had been too passive in the Arab world, particularly in Syria's civil war.
He wrote that this new form of digital play ("the enthusiasm of irresponsible youngsters") was "heresy, uninvited and unwelcome" in a world of "passive consumerism".
As a reproachful letter to him from a broad range of conservative leaders pointed out on June 28, the administration record "is one of passive acceptance of the world trafficking status quo".
