Sentence examples for wholly passive from inspiring English sources

Watching them is a wholly passive experience.

Officials such as Lord Armstrong were not wholly passive.

This study does, however, support other research in suggesting that sitting is not always a wholly passive event.

However, the women in Wadjda – and the titular hero especially – are not depicted as wholly passive victims, but rather come across as striving, enterprising and possessing some agency within the constraints imposed upon them.

In 2007 Northern Rock, a British mortgage lender, was the first spectacular casualty of this false assumption; many more banks have been caught out in 2008.Asleep at the wheel?While all this was happening, regulators were not wholly passive.

Understanding a sentence, while it is not wholly passive or arational, is not typically an action.

Behind Leibniz's rejection of the first horn lies the assumption that if bodies were nothing but matter, and matter nothing but extension, then bodies would be wholly and essentially passive.

Taken together, neonatal piglet M. hyopneumoniae-specific CMI responses induced by vaccination are not (at least wholly) inhibited by passive interference with M. hyopneumoniae-specific MDI.

With the possible exception of children and spouses of smokers (who put up with each other's offensive habits of every sort, and presumably are best left to sort out such problems among themselves), segregating smokers wholly solves the passive-smoke problem.

He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.

Moreover, this conclusion is reinforced by the experiences of Christian and other mystics who claim to have glimpsed a divine reality exhibiting the metaphysical attributes a holy unity transcending distinctions and time and change, wholly active and never passive, and upon which they and everything else are absolutely dependent.