Sentence examples for surprisingly passive from inspiring English sources

When I asked Tillerson whether he had been frustrated when responsibilities were handed to Kushner, he was surprisingly passive.

I actually thought his performance here in Florida Monday night was surprisingly passive, whereas Mitt showed a little testosterone.

The Kansas senior guard Kirk Hinrich, surprisingly passive with 8 points in a 64-61 victory against No. 15 Utah State in the first round, reasserted himself tonight.

Given his energy, reformist instincts and appetite for explosions, he has been only fitfully energetic, at moments surprisingly passive, and on the whole unpointed in his program.

The Rangers had the edge early against a surprisingly passive Pittsburgh offense, which features three of the league's top offensive players: Sidney Crosby, Marian Hossa and Evgeni Malkin.

Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands each have more voting power in the Bretton Woods twins than Brazil, China or India, an amazing relic from the post-war world.*Yet despite it all, Europeans are surprisingly passive when it comes to setting the world's economic agenda.

Surprisingly, many passive technologies did not appear to make a difference on energy efficiency while thermal storage walls in fact seemed to decrease energy efficiency.

The appeal of hidden camera shows is not really the mark's reaction; most people are surprisingly silent and passive when faced with the weird and the unexpected.

Passive aggression or passiveness.

It's also surprisingly full-featured, given the company's traditionally passive approach to hardware design – not to mention its decidedly ethereal name.

Not surprisingly, FD chambers are functionally similar to regular dynamic chambers, but the passive regulation of gas flow means that internal concentration sensors can be switched off between measurements, thereby achieving very low power consumption and high reliability.