Sentence examples for quite passive from inspiring English sources

"I find their faces quite passive," he says.

Under Lillian, D.C. 37 has been quite passive in many ways".

In the book, Wendy is quite passive, she's nothing more than a domestic goddess.

And remember that safaris, for all the action-packed yarns, can be quite passive affairs.

"For a while he was quite passive and I had to initiate everything.

"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," he wrote, famously, at the beginning of "Goodbye to Berlin".

It just sits there and lets me eat it all, which is quite passive-aggressive of food.

He presents Lincoln as a rather passive figure, not at all in charge of the forces raging around him, which is quite accurate".

Whether it will endure into the next boom period cannot be known, but it is hard to imagine that directors will be quite so passive again.

They took advantage of what was quite a passive and timid performance by us.

Robert Moore writes: Daniel Berrigan and his brother Philip were audacious in their actions, and inventive and good-humoured in developing an active peaceful resistance that was quite distinct from passive resistance.