Sentence examples for passive writing from inspiring English sources

In countries where active voice is the norm, passive writing may come off as awkward and impersonal.

Infection control training was categorized as active (face-to-face teaching) or passive (written instructions only).

A UK study which disseminated passive written guidelines reported no effect on the proportion of patients prescribed a PPI, while a multifaceted participatory educational strategy involving workshops, guidelines and reminders reported a 60% reduction in PPI costs [ 10, 38].

I think it's a near-perfect execution of a very compelling idea: passive diary writing.

In fact, a lot of the web services we use on a daily basis would be perfect for this type of passive diary writing.

Joel Dommett To the person who keeps stealing my passive aggressive fridge notes – please continue to do so because I bloody love writing passive aggressive fridge notes.

the casual script choice for everyone... perfect as a display face, for marking up comments, and writing passive aggressive office memos.

At the same ceremony, Cate Blanchett received her very own Golden Globe for her performance in Blue Jasmine as a thinly veiled, passive-aggressively written Mia surrogate constructed, in the mind of Allen, to appear as a worse person for looking the other way at her partner's indiscretions than the partner himself.

Passive surveillance consisted of writing to all 329 members of the St. George Division asking them to report any single case of foodborne illness on a purpose-designed form that could be faxed to the Public Health Unit.

I haven't raised my prices since then because I'm always too shy to talk about money except in passive-aggressive ways like writing this blog post.

I'm sure Other Death is fine, but writing this passive-aggressive rant is already giving this loser more attention than he deserves.