She plays a purely passive role".
"We're in this for purely passive investment purposes," Mr. York said.
Beyond the publication of the occasional letter to the editor, the role of the reader was defined as purely passive.
Of course, government-controlled investors have gone to great lengths to portray their investments as purely passive.
Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.
EHealthInsurance.com is a purely passive exchange that merely lists the policies and estimates of their premiums for sundry health insurers listing on the exchange.
"For E.T.F.'s to really make major inroads against mutual funds, they will have to go beyond purely passive investment," said Joseph F. Keenan, a Bank of New York vice president in charge of the bank's exchange-traded-fund business.
George the Silly and George the Schemer, George the Stupid and George the Smart, the purely passive pawn and the passive-aggressive manipulator: these variations on the sitting president of the United States have all shown up on theater stages in New York and London since Mr. Bush took office nearly four years ago.
"So it's purely passive interaction in a sense.
The purely passive cannot do anything unless it is acted upon.
This is obtained in a purely passive manner, without the need for actuators or sensors.
