Where Shakespeare had written for a shared light where people discovered meaning together, now one group sat in passive darkness, being told where to look and what to think.
Sited for passive solar heating, the house faces north, with broad mountain views.
It sits there passive in one way but very revealing in another.
They sat in long lines, passive, waiting to be put on buses and taken to their first reception centre.
"Policymakers cannot sit by as passive observers," Rohit Chopra, student loan ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, recently told the Financial Times.
With all the great television that is increasingly monopolizing good drama, and the video games that allow people to actively engage rather than sit back as passive viewers, movies need to offer something that these other forms can't: big effects, 3D, and money, money, money.
With all the great television that is increasingly monopolising good drama, and the video games that allow people to actively engage rather than sit back as passive viewers, movies need to offer something that these other forms can't: big effects, 3D and money, money, money.
The community members interpreted the fulfilment of the conditions as a proxy for achievement and merit, enabling them to participate rather than sit back as passive recipients of aid.
Our experiences suggest that conditions can be embraced, particularly if they are considered fair, a proxy for good parenting, achievement and merit, and enable community members to take an active role in the programme and not sit back as passive recipients of aid.
The tactics of public protest that became familiar in the 1960's -- marches on Washington, Freedom Rides, sit-ins, passive resistance, civil disobedience -- were pioneered and refined by Rustin two decades earlier.
