Sentence examples for something passive from inspiring English sources

I've thought of learning as something passive.

Though they squabble and tattle and threaten to throw up, there is something passive about them.

It is seen that both the semi-active control schemes can simultaneously reduce the acceleration and the relative displacement, something passive linear isolators cannot do.

Unlike the gangster rappers, whose unhappiness takes more traditional form in machismo and homophobia, there is something passive about Manson's anger, something detached.

[OPERATIC SINGING] One way to think of what I want to express in my music I hope that at some level the music does not become just something passive.

You could do something passive that was extremely social".

Street Canvasser: You knew I was going to say something passive-aggressive?

His voice is eerily level, calm, detached – and yet there is something passive-aggressive in what he is doing.

There's something passive-aggressive in the degree of the Academy's imprecision here, and in general the dodgy largesse to "world cinema" (as if the US variety is somehow separate).

Anyone unconvinced by the duo's version of events might suggest there's something passive-aggressive in the way it often sounds like the Ting Tings' debut album, but without any hooks.

But there was something sadly passive about those ginger muses.