| 单词 | passive |
| 例句 | Under that nation’s politics and parades and passions runs an old darkness, passive, anarchic, silent, the fecund darkness of the Handdara. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The Day of Protest boosted our morale, made us realize our strength, and sent a warning to the Malan government that we would not remain passive in the face of apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Four of the five Levittown pools have met the same fate, with their grounds converted to “passive recreation areas.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Before, she had been passive in her rebellion—sneaking off to see Reggie, refusing to play tennis. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I wait, and leave myself open, passive, to whatever this experience means. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The initiates’ passive faces stare back at me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z At the ANC annual conference in Bloemfontein, the organization adopted the league’s Program of Action, which called for boycotts, strikes, stay-at-homes, passive resistance, protest demonstrations, and other forms of mass action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After a long time of passive happiness, she got up and opened the window and let Tea Cake leap forth and mount to the sky on a wind. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z While the state-run agitprop machine churned to generate passive consent for eugenic sterilizations, the Nazis ensured that the legal engines were also thrumming to extend the boundaries of racial cleansing. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To do this, he and his men needed to remain passive and peaceful—no matter what. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Jimmy Papanikolas holds his egg out, passive, as Chapter Eleven rams his egg against it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z However, much of the music in children’s lives is “unchosen,” in other words they are passive recipients in much of the music in their lives, and not actively engaged in its selection. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It’s true that a passive verb makes for a wimpier, more roundabout way of saying something. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Indian community was outraged and launched a concerted, two-year campaign of passive resistance to oppose the measures. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the pig farm, that passive blankness returned. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z No. She is not a passive participant, being acted upon. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z His opening arrays were different every time, yet all the same—conservative, defensive, passive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They stare at the walls, speechless, passive, won’t even watch television. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fences like Brent did, seemingly passive, without energy. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Once again the passive voice makes that possible, even though the baby didn’t do anything: The baby, he says, was given to him by another shepherd. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They sat at the backs of their cages, passive and blank faced. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Consider: There is no division of humanity into strong and weak halves, protective/protected, dominant/submissive, owner/chattel, active/passive. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, the narrow confines of the galleries prevent us from becoming passive observers by forcing us into a direct confrontation with the works themselves. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was no spokesman for the whole, it was headless, passive. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She’s too weak-willed and passive to suit me; she lets herself be swayed by others and always backs down under pressure. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It was, rather, a dull feeling of rage that gradually dissolved in a solitary and passive frustration similar to the one he had felt during the time he was resigned to living without a woman. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And, most of all, we become much too passive. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He kissed those enticing lips—they could not kiss him back; he caressed her hands, her face—they were unresponsive; he took her in his arms—she remained a cold and passive form. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For me, hunger strikes were altogether too passive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The passive voice, too, has several uses in English. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The fourth subsection covers issues having to do with excessive abstraction, including overuse of nominalizations and passives. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We don’t want to be passive consumers, sitting at the end of a food chain and eating what we are served. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But perhaps nature is bigger than our concepts and it is possible for the lady to be a hostile, fiercely independent, passive, dependent, feminine, aggressive, warm, castrating person all-in-one. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why guidelines on how to avoid legalese and other turbid professional styles call for using first- and second-person pronouns, inverting passives into actives, and letting verbs be verbs rather than zombie nouns. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z How could I face a lifetime of passive waiting? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Gradually, her attitude of passive unhappiness wore Mrs. Weston down and all that kept her from yielding was the impossibility of admitting defeat to her husband. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The passive trains the reader’s gaze on someone who’s having something done to him: See that mime? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Other dogs stayed on their porches, happy to mark his appearance and departure with passive earsplitting symphonies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The passive voice is just one of the gadgets that the English language makes available to rearrange phrases while preserving their semantic roles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Those hours of passive availability are considered part of the forty-five hours of child care she would owe the Zamborskas. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Black South Africans realized that the ANC was no longer an organization of passive resistance, but a powerful spear that would take the struggle to the heart of white power. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Foremost among them is the unfairly maligned passive voice: Laius was killed by Oedipus, as opposed to Oedipus killed Laius. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The advice to bring zombie nouns back to life as verbs and to convert passives into actives is ubiquitous in style guides and plain language laws. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I’d learned to make myself perfectly passive when my mother bathed and shaved me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Sounds of revelry traveled to him at night from the officers’ club and kept him awake often as he turned and tossed on his cot in passive, half-voluntary exile. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The grand jury was unwilling to be a passive participant in this injustice. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Yes, in a passive way: I make no effort; I follow as inclination guides me. There is no merit in such goodness.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I’ll be sloppy or wet or too passive or too eager. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z They were just a passive- aggressive method of survival, the result of having a wife with a voice as loud as Aunt Zo’s. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Negro’s feeling of utter hopelessness is here replaced by a determined spirit of passive resistance. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dudes in here have a way of isolating you, a sort of passive violence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Though the heron is merely being observed by an unidentified birdwatcher at this point in the passage, the passive voice keeps it in the reader’s spotlight of attention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The new philosophers regarded matter as the passive recipient of a divine shaping and denied the existence of Aristotelian forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Men who wrote about the Great Fire generally portrayed women as passive and helpless, waiting for their husbands, brothers, or some other man to save them. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The dirtiest of all tricks for passive carriage is perpetrated by microbes that pass from a woman to her fetus and thereby infect babies already at birth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All the monkeys in these cages were infected with Ebola virus, and most of them were silent, passive, and withdrawn, although one or two of them seemed queerly deranged. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s in the third person, and filled with zombie nouns like Extreme Exposure and passives like are more easily affected. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Elsa had given me this book when I first got out of prison to show me, she said, that being passive and gentle could be revolutionary. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now look at the second tree, where the relative clause has been put in the passive. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The doctrine of nonviolence, of passive resistance, couldn’t work against the Boers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He strategically slips in a passive sentence: One hungry heron was seen, as opposed to Birdwatchers saw one hungry heron. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The passive might be more appropriate in cases like these: • When there’s a punch line. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t interested in slotting myself into a passive role, waiting for Barack’s team to give me direction. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Actives and passives differ in which character gets to be the subject, and hence which starts out in the reader’s mental spotlight. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Finally we spoke of Martin Luther King and his teaching of passive but unrelenting resistance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This highlights yet another payoff of the passive voice: it can unburden memory by shortening the interval between a filler and a gap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Be passive and let this—whatever it is—fill me with the light and absorb me into itself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The problem with the passives that bog down bureaucratic and academic prose is that they are not selected with these purposes in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Positive or negative, in both images Indians lacked what social scientists call agency—they were not actors in their own right, but passive recipients of whatever windfalls or disasters happenstance put in their way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Now we see the other major benefit of the passive: it allows the doer to be mentioned later in the sentence than the done-to. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When it’s a condition or a passive state being described, use good, the adjective. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Their pictures were featured prominently on posters, newspapers, and magazines—generating passive support for a national eugenics movement. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Some of the creatures had gone to the pond to drink; the others waited, but not with the mild, passive curiosity of cows gathering at a gate. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The passive allows him to do so because the agent can be left unmentioned, which is impossible in the active voice. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I’m passive. I just sit here watching the world.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At the same time, he became strangely passive. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I think it’s more the”—he chews and swallows and Molly looks away, annoyed at his passive aggression—“appearance of it, y’know?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being “passive aggressive.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Genes, the Pajama paper argued, were not just passive blueprints. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As we all know, nonviolence and passive resistance would eventually spread through the world, inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr., in the fight for civil rights in America. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He kept his face passive, easygoing, but his breath hitched in his throat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z You may attempt to defend your enervating use of the passive voice by pointing out that the only alternative is excessive reliance upon the first person personal pronoun or upon the pontifical We. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “We shall say quite frankly that if noncooperation and passive resistance constitute high treason, then we are guilty. But these are plainly not encompassed in the law of treason.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He searched for animals that seemed passive or in pain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The caricature of the Sapphire has been said to act as a warning or punishment for going against society's norm that women should be passive, nonthreatening, and unseen. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z She was too intelligent, lively, and attractive for such a passive existence. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s what many people mean when they say that television is passive. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Which is why at home during our fire drills he had little interest in being a passive prop, even in a pretend crisis. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z True, the passive phrase itself is heavier than the active, with four levels of branching rather than three, but it comes at the end, where there’s nothing else to keep track of. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was passive in his palm, and the deep translucent throat quivered. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z But he has the urge to be alone all of a sudden, to be thoroughly passive, to revisit the evening in solitude. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Marcus’s passive mask is gone, revealing the malicious face beneath it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Rawiya guided Moss forward to their friends, and as she did so, Moss turned his head around to see Mr. Jacobs speaking to the cop, who remained as still and passive as before. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z After seeing JT’s parents, his father so angry and vicious and his mother as passive as a wallflower, my family’s little spats seemed like a child’s game. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That is what they have in common with the passive constructions that also bog down these examples, like was affirmed and were used. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The passive allows a writer to postpone the mention of a doer that is heavy, old news, or both. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Bob and I believe that the worst course of action is to continue in this essentially passive role which can lead only to eventual defeat and an invitation to get out in humiliating circumstances.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Our biggest problem was that where he was laid-back, almost passive, I was very aggressive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The Indian campaign hearkened back to the 1913 passive resistance campaign in which Mahatma Gandhi led a tumultuous procession of Indians crossing illegally from Natal to the Transvaal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was more passive, more unobtrusive; I did not ask for things, but instead let people tell me what to do. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of merely lying in bed in a passive state, he became disoriented and angry and refused to take medicine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A relieved Joseph Goebbels sat down and wrote, “The Fuehrer is immensely happy... England remains passive. France won’t act alone. Italy is disappointed and America is uninterested.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The realization convinced me I couldn't be passive; I couldn't simply wait for the Germans to be defeated. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Both these arguments thus depended on prior acceptance of the mechanistic or corpuscular philosophy, according to which matter is passive and always acted on from outside. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The critical thing about Mavens, though, is that they aren’t passive collectors of information. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was trying to impress her, so I skipped the part about my passive, but integral, role in the man’s death. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “We admit that there is a question of noncooperation and passive resistance,” he said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How can I stand here, passive and mute, leaving all the words to Peeta? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z How could she be so dismissive of the racism in their workplace, however passive, when her very entry to the laboratory had been under segregated circumstances? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Malcolm X’s decision to enter the mainstream of the straggle heralds a hopeful sign on the sickeningly dismal scene of brutalized, non-violent, passive resistance. ...” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was to keep ever before them the picture of a bright, passive, good-humored, receptive mass ever willing to accept their every scheme. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I knelt by him trying to unbuckle his harness, alarmed by the way he sprawled there, passive except for the great gasping rise and fall of his chest. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Their passive, silent, almost pleasant greeting made me uncomfortable, and the more I thought about their attitude, the more it concerned me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside the water, not a hundred yards away, the Spirit Bear stood watching him with a fearless and passive stare. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z As the linguist Geoffrey Pullum has noted, there is nothing wrong with a news report that uses the passive voice to say, “Helicopters were flown in to put out the fires.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And yet, just once, before I said good-bye to the world, what would it be like to be something other than passive? Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Wherever Willoughby went, there followed axiomatically a coterie of passive, mostly negative characters known as the Courthouse Crowd, specimens Willoughby had put into the various county and municipal offices to do as they were told. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There were passive Muslims, uncertain Muslims, borderline agnostic Muslims, devout Muslims, and Muslims who twisted the words of the Qur’an to suit their temporary desires and agendas. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The label seems to have unpleasant connotations, such as that human creativity counts for nothing, or that we humans are passive robots helplessly programmed by climate, fauna, and flora. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No English construction could have survived in the language for a millennium and a half unless it had continued to serve some purpose, and that includes passives and nominalizations. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In chapter 2 we saw one of the benefits of the passive, namely that the agent of the event, expressed in the fiy-phrase, can go unmentioned. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But with those like Abigail, “where I know a mind to be ingenious, and need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She also criticized modern Quakers as too passive. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was a begging smile, a passive acceptance of the policeman’s authority. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The standard narrative of conception struck Martin as an old-fashioned romantic saga: the passive female egg waiting for the male sperm to shoot out and rescue it. An Anthropologist Investigates How We Think About How We Think 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z “I hope that you, my readers, will forgive me, and learn from my mistake that even unintentional and passive stereotypes and racism are harmful to everyone,” he wrote. ‘Captain Underpants’ book pulled for ‘passive racism’ 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z A: This is not a passive experience, where you’re looking into the past. A new guide leads travelers through U.S. civil rights history 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z She’s the master manipulator behind two passive men of power, couching a radical agenda under the banner of patriotism and military service. Angela Lansbury’s Greatest Roles: A Streaming Guide 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z The goal with communication strategies is not to change your personality or become an emotionless robot; some of us are more blunt, others are more passive — and that’s all fine. 6 Ways to Become a Better Communicator 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z That’s Henry, who belongs to the breed of passive characters to whom untoward and unexpected things happen in Greene’s lighter novels of espionage, like “Our Man in Havana.” Review: ‘Travels With My Aunt’ Taps Into a Hidden Sense of Adventure 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z One classic criticism of TV watching is that it's a passive activity. How TV brings us together 2012-03-14T20:52:06Z By early July 2020 the cultural sphere sees a backlash against the passive expressions of support for the Floyd protests that many arts institutions are posting online. The Met Changes Course 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Q. All the major characters have clearly changed in some way or another, but Carol seems to have made a complete transformation, from passive domestic violence victim to ruthless and strategic survivor. Scott M. Gimple on ‘The Walking Dead’ and What Those Zombies Are Really Eating 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Stephen King, a horror novelist, in an entertaining rant against the passive in his autobiography, refers to it several times as the “passive tense”. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Research from 2014 found that employees with hostile bosses are better off when they respond with passive aggression. You're not alone: how to survive your horrible boss 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Wong Howe was not passive; he seemed to take the matter of his skin color as a challenge. James Wong Howe: A Gutsy Cinematographer Finally Gets His Due 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z By romanticising Kinsey as the passive object of a seduction, rather than showing him as a lurker in a public lavatory, the movie makes him more straightforwardly sympathetic. Kinsey: No sexing-up required 2010-07-08T09:14:00Z In a typically passive response, the student considers finding another apartment but rules against it on grounds of inconvenience. In ‘White on White,’ the Traditional Landlord-Tenant Pact Is Ruptured 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z When we were writing it we said in three years are people going to be passive about it? ArtsBeat: Under the Radar: 5 Questions About 'Ameriville' 2011-01-06T23:02:28Z Quavo: “You might think I’m too aggressive/Really I think I’m too passive/‘Til I pull out the chopper, start blasting” The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z “I wanted to play with the idea of passivity. She’s not passive anymore.” The Charming, Disgusting Paintings of Tala Madani 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z “Dad grew up a passive Christian but really became an active Jesus person in the mid-1980s,” Rapert said, citing a series of trips to Africa as a turning point. Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying, global-warming-denying senator. And now he’s got a gavel. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z “That was the first time I realised that the little things we do every day – overconsumption, judging people – are a form of passive violence.” Arun Gandhi: ‘My grandfather saw my anger as fuel for change’ 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Rhodes deals in the main with wan, passive, earnestly matter-of-fact men who go to their dooms with a sort of glum acceptance. Marry Me by Dan Rhodes – review 2013-02-08T11:00:01Z In addition, a character with a disability "should be integral to the presentation, not merely a passive bystander." Award-winning books about kids with disabilities 2011-03-12T01:02:49Z “I want to break the common assumption that cleaning and cooking at home is just a task for passive women or housewives,” Park Hyo-ju, 25, of the channel Nyangsoop, wrote in an email. Lessons From a Homebody 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z She might seem passive, but she is following closely, awaiting her turn to train in the girl militia. The Lovely, Menacing Girls of Justine Kurland 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z "I had very little movement below the neck so I was trying to find a way to not be a passive person throughout the intimate scenes - Mark's personality was his body in that way." Let's talk about sex 2013-01-18T07:55:33Z Jones views the romance as refreshing because the intense woman she plays has a "ferocious will" and takes an active role in pursuing the relationship, in contrast to the man who is more passive. Brits shine 2011-01-31T15:55:26Z Another, Wang Siren, starved himself to death in an extreme gesture of passive resistance. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z South maintained his passive stance, when a penalty double would have been understandable. Bridge: After a Weak Two-Bid, to Lurk or to Jump In? 2011-01-30T22:15:19Z “We are more passive about eyewear than, say, shoes or an outfit,” she says. Goodbye, geek glasses: why aviators are this season’s biggest eyewear trend 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z In Britain we are quite passive to authority. Readers' Reviews 2011-02-17T23:00:01Z “But it’s a passive situation. There’s no input. You’re just a willing recipient of what the museum offers.” How a Businesswoman Became a Voice for Art’s Black Models 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Some of the first film-makers to push these familiar stories in harder, unorthodox directions have been female directors overturning the tradition of passive, victimised women. Fairytale films are in fashion – but can Hollywood deliver a happy ending? 2012-11-09T12:25:40Z It normalizes a passive dominant idea of gender. Gloria Steinem hopes for TV boycott of "Playboy Club" 2011-08-09T20:29:55Z Two teenagers bond over their torment, and their passive response reveals many kinds of societal injustice. 10 books to read in May 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z My hunch is that it’s in your father’s emotional makeup to live in the present as a passive participant, meaning that whatever his current circumstances offer him, that’s where his attention rests. You never call: A daughter’s lament 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It is a passive, obsolete form of escapism that was invented during the Edwardian era to bring the world to the people, some enchantment, knowledge and information. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z And it is only when we write up our work that we revert to the inhuman, impersonal passive voice that creates the convenient fiction that the individual is not a part of the action. Scientists and their emotions: the highs ... and the lows 2013-02-10T00:04:02Z Do we presume that the user is male and the passive interface female? From Siri to sexbots: Female AI reinforces a toxic desire for passive, agreeable and easily dominated women 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The journey of women, especially in indie films, is different: passive saints, they abide and endure and finally, bravely, say no. Higher Ground: When God Doesn't Talk Back 2011-08-25T07:05:00Z To Freedman, Finch’s acts and omissions defined a lawyer who lived his life as a “passive participant” in “pervasive injustice.” Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z I never thought that girls were these adorable pink passive puffy creatures or anything, but I really was struck by that. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z In both cases, the technologies are represented as female characters that seem to have more control than the passive Roberta did. Lynn Hershman Leeson: The Artist Is Prescient 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z In “A Room of One’s Own” at Yancey Richardson Gallery in Manhattan, the artist’s studio is more than just a passive space for production. Peek Inside Artists’ Studios in the Exhibition “A Room of One’s Own” in New York 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z She is passive but also stubborn, somehow at once adamant and indecisive. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Charm is an ability, not a passive feature, he writes, and it almost always has a motive. When First Love Is as Lethal as Religious Extremism 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Now that his mother has died, he is determined to fill dynamically what for centuries has been a passive, ornamental role. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z But there is a discernible tension, as well, between clashing impulses: passive and active, ethereal and earthbound, polished but often unnervingly raw. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Selin is amazingly passive and almost seems miscast in her own life as protagonist. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Mouth full of breakfast ice cream sandwich, Chao delivers a graduate class in passive aggressiveness. It's time for Zoë Chao, rom-com sidekick, to take the lead 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z “Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and nonviolent,” she wrote. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Space in the building was active, not passive. Claude Parent, Visionary Architect of the Oblique, Dies at 93 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z “The danger that this character has, both because he was very passive and he couldn’t make a decision on his own, it could be not that likable for the audience.” Asghar Farhadi’s new film grapples with the idea of heroes 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z The exhibition’s explanation is passive, even grudging, suggesting that war or persecution “pushed” some here; some were drawn by material prospects; and “for others the impetus was the promise of political of religious freedom.” Exhibition Review: ‘Records of Rights’ at the National Archives 2013-12-16T23:52:04Z This concept of women in distress, so passive and weak … it’s just pathetic. Delhi gang rape trial sparks Indian media frenzy 2013-03-28T15:29:00Z I remember feeling passive, like the most consequential things in life were the ones that happened to me, sometimes for no apparent reason. Meryl Streep’s Twenties, and My Own 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Instead of evolving in dramatic or profound ways, they remain passive and long-suffering. A Novel About 3 Generations of Cherokee Women (and No-Good Men) 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Instead, we release sweat — a passive act that has the added benefit of not creating its own heat. Scents and Science Mingle in ‘The Joy of Sweat’ 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Turning seemingly passive, interior activities into externalized, dynamic theater is what Elevator Repair Service does. Review: ‘Fondly, Collette Richland’ Offers Open-Eyed Dreaming 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Andrew Garfield is in the Jeep, being passive — like, “Come and sleep in the Jeep with me” — and I’m just terrified. Action! Vivid Moments on Set, Relived 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Deborah Wicks La Puma: Growing up, I was never a big fan of Cinderella, as she always seemed so passive. Bringing an empowered Cinderella to the stage 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Baffling, and weirdly passive and ineffectual — almost like a child’s. Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’ 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Crosby’s sly camera movements and pacing choices are funnier, however, than the dialogue — which isn’t hard when Mike is so passive, he barely speaks. ‘First Date’ Review: Modern Action Romance Propelled by a ’65 Chrysler 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z If the lyrics’ probing political sobriety might come across as something of a bummer, the music’s rousing invention is a kind of reminder not to curdle into passive cynicism. For Three Avant-Garde Musicians, It’s Time for Pop 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Looking back, it seems ridiculous and suicidal and of course it was: passive nonchalant suicide. When I became a junkie 2012-11-14T21:48:00Z Girls are taught to be passive and strive for beauty by playing with princesses and putting on makeup. How toys became gendered 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Audiences in countries with Oscar runners would be so much more invested – aware that they are not merely passive “markets” for Hollywood product, but get to speak in the mainstream conversation too. Parasite's best picture triumph could begin a new era for the Oscars 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Donnie Darko was a mostly passive protagonist struggling against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the film’s climax. Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: 'Sometimes films need time to marinate' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z These women are not in any way submissive or passive. “Hidden Figures” Is a Subtle and Powerful Work of Counter-History 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z She was passive and deeply insecure in those years, she said, because she grew up far from the publishing world in the flyover states of Iowa and Minnesota, the daughter of an alcoholic father. Janet Groth Describes Her Life at The New Yorker 2012-06-27T22:01:52Z There has always been something vaguely passive about Frank, and in these stories, things — or people — happen to him. Richard Ford’s Hero Returns in ‘Let Me Be Frank With You’ 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z “Orbiting, in this sense, just feels very passive aggressive,” Ms. Mojsejenko said, “like a silent and lonely battle.” Orbiting, Another Thing for Online Daters to Worry About 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z “Mecca” is structured as a battle for the future of the ostensibly passive and bewildered Miss Helen. | 'The Road to Mecca' : ?Road to Mecca? at American Airlines Theater - Review 2012-01-18T03:01:07Z Turned out he couldn’t say he didn’t; he was a passive pleaser just like me. My compulsion to please: Polyamory, hunger and the neediness of denying what you want 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Style guides, including that of The Economist, as well as usage books like the celebrated American “Elements of Style”, warn writers off the passive, and automated grammar-checkers often suggest that passive clauses be redrafted. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Power, too, was a figure matched with her moment, which demanded action rather than passive witness. Cultural Studies: Thomas Piketty, the Economist Behind ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Is the Latest Overnight Intellectual Sensation 2014-04-25T23:51:03Z Don’t imagine that you’re just a passive observer of the events in this novel. Review | ‘The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures’ is a story that John le Carré might have written for ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z “What’s more interesting is his own confrontation with the fact that he’s giving himself a pass — he’s passive, he’s not a crusader, he’s not a moralist,” Norton says. Edward Norton’s ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ is a passion project both personal and professional 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “I’m either going to be a passive, nervous witness with a calculator, or I’m going to stay away,” Mr. Holzer said. A Trove of Lincoln Artifacts Heads to Auction 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z He added that he also often orders an X-ray to rule out other conditions that can cause a loss of active and passive motion, such as arthritis. What is frozen shoulder? Symptoms, treatment and a possible pandemic connection. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z She isn’t passive, she isn’t weak, and she isn’t some random girl. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z Dance can be seen as a passive world, until a group of artists boycotts their gala. Perspective | Why this is the moment for dancers to behave badly 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Watching a movie is passive; one need only stay awake to have consumed it. The Book Thief: The Girl Who Fought the Nazis With Words 2013-11-07T20:59:34Z “We must try to achieve sustainable passive viewing. Instead of asking, ‘Did you touch a manatee?’ it should be, ‘Did a manatee touch you?’ In Florida, should the manatees swim alone? 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z You point out some remarkable ways that scientists have ignored evidence suggesting that women — and female animals — are far from passive when it comes to sex and are in fact often initiators. The truth about female desire: It’s base, animalistic and ravenous 2013-06-02T00:30:00Z "But I think the statement really speaks to democracy being an active, not a passive process. And in that regard I see it as a living document." Friends recall Hayden as activist behind historic document 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Lyra plays little more than a passive role in this book, being only a few months old. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The first Republican debate was watched by one of the biggest television audiences of the year, and delivered: with barbed remarks, passive aggressive gesturing and Donald Trump being Donald Trump. Ripped-from-the-headlines is the latest TV trend but will too much reality bite? 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Mendelsohn went on to say that he doesn't believe the bar's owner thinks of himself as an antisemite . . . but this is a classic example of passive evil. With "The U.S. and the Holocaust" Ken Burns makes a sobering addition to the American story 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z We’d like to get rid of the gray and do something different, but the floors — in our dining room and a bedroom — need to remain masonry for the passive solar aspect. How to give a concrete floor a cost-effective update Relational aesthetics purported to do away with supposedly passive contemplation in favor of active participation that often included physical activity, with viewers relating to one another and sometimes taking a bit of the art. This Jewish Museum Is Giving Away Art. You Get What You Pay For. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Worse, Socrates was influential yet passive: standing in the agora all day, he took no part in city affairs, making him "good for nothing." Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z But as the couple progress on their murderous tour of the Peak District, Tina becomes less and less passive. How female actors are rewriting Hollywood's script 2013-07-11T17:00:01Z I don’t think that was an attempt at subterfuge or passive misdirection. My late grandma left a mark with her dinner rolls. Why can’t I? 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In the terms of “Peppermint,” one Latinx person is a constructive exception; two are huddled, passive and dependent, in an encampment of the homeless; a group of them working together is a menace. “Peppermint,” Reviewed: Jennifer Garner Stars in an Ignorant, Racist Drug-Trade Revenge Film 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z She was so passive about attracting her prince that she was actually dead when she met him. Tangled: ironically ever after 2011-01-14T15:00:18Z How could he make it known that the opinionated, wise-cracking, witty rock 'n' roll rebel he portrayed had developed out of the passive acceptance of the regime at Mendips? The untold story behind "Strawberry Fields Forever" 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z It nods to the way that young girls — the nymphets in the Vladimir Nabokov work that inspired Ms. Dass’s title — are treated as passive objects of male desire. Two Projects Helping Female Artists in Africa Find Their Voices 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z At the heart of the film is the message that abusive systems of power depend on a public that is complacent, compromising, passive and distracted. Michael Moore’s terrifying “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Trump is the symptom, not the disease 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Yet Marlon James’s powerful first novel is more than a theological contest pitting a ferocious god against a passive one. Revisiting Marlon James’s Debut Novel, ‘John Crow’s Devil’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Had they lived in our own time, the charismatic despots of the 20th century would equally have posed, to Montaigne and La Boétie, the threat of passive obedience. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z We're using a smart refrigerator because it helps us, but that is not a passive object. Would you share your kid's private life on a billboard? Maybe don't put it online then 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z She spoke as a woman, a man, a little girl, a little boy, a lover active and passive. My Hero, Emily Dickinson, Outlaw of Amherst 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z Technology, like visual art, used to be a more passive experience for the public, he said. Teknopolis: Art Installations That Tease the Senses 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Lucy’s blank, smooth, passive body is a screen on which they project their desires, and Ms. Browning’s otherworldly face, with its wide eyes and heavy lips, conveys mystery and multiplicity. | 'Sleeping Beauty': Julia Leigh?s ?Sleeping Beauty? - Review 2011-12-02T00:02:07Z We are not passive witnesses, sitting in the dark and feeling sad while we eat popcorn. Ending military rape: The crusade of “The Invisible War” 2012-06-27T11:45:00Z The girl explained that she was originally from El Salvador, working on a college-application essay and struggling to understand the difference between passive and active voice. This Grammar Guru Will Solve the World’s Problems 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z “It’s actually surprisingly calm and not very violent. It’s very passive and gentle when you’re flying it.” Leaving on a jetsuit? London store offers chance to hover like... 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The line between being playfully ribbed and straight-up bullied, and all of the passive aggression and aggression-aggression in between those things, it’s really hard to codify. Rachel Bloom’s Life Is an Open Book 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z His passive side disappeared the moment he proposed. Getting Married Is Better Than Dying, Right? 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Daniel is sweet, unassuming, naïve, passive, “his softly waving hair somehow projecting innocence and pure intentions.” Without 'Twilight's' supernatural chill, can Stephenie Meyer still thrill readers? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Equinox’s statement also referred to Mr. Ross as “a passive investor.” They Paid $42 for a SoulCycle Ride, Not for Trump 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z "I wanted to create passive income," he said of the book. Buddies and budding actor, writer hustle to land their big breaks 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z For most people, watching telly at 4am is what you might call "passive television watching". So long overnight TV. And thanks for all the late night poker and big brown ties 2011-03-27T21:15:00Z Instead of the inherently passive experience of sitting in seats and watching artists perform from an elevated stage, Rutter said The Reach is meant to partially eliminate the division between artists and audience. Kennedy Center looks to the future with opening of The Reach 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Most likely you stuck with whatever publications you subscribed to and news programs you normally watched and received their images in a relatively passive manner. The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z However, African American writers and activists immediately objected to its depiction of passive, compliant slaves, and the sentimentality with which it depicted the pre-civil war US south. Gone With the Wind returns to HBO Max with disclaimer that film ‘denies the horrors of slavery’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Some of its inclusions are passive witnesses, like the deconstructed chairs used by American leaders while making decisions with global repercussions. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Films are not only passive, but also a medium of the last century: why should we trust them to tell a story about modern conflicts, which are so delocalised, so inhumane, so digital? Depicting war 2010-09-18T23:02:00Z "I was in a trap, and I didn't know how to get out," she says of those long-ago days when a woman was expected to be passive and do the bidding of her mate. A 'real' portrait of 'Big Eyes' artist Margaret Keane 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z While City of Ghosts is no less compelling than its predecessor, Heineman was forced to take a more passive role in its creation. City of Ghosts director Matthew Heineman: 'Imagine seeing people crucified – every day' 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z By the “Fairy Tales” series of 1985, they were relegated to taking passive, abject roles in the dead-end genre of horror films. Cindy Sherman’s Divas, Poised for a Final Close-Up 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z When I was young, they wanted a more passive, more malleable look. Generation B: For Boomer Models, It?s Boom Time 2010-05-06T21:30:00Z Some are passive actors, others engaged in personal advancement. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 3: The Women of Wall Street 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Arguably the most passive actor in the history of movie dreamboats, he gives an unmodulated performance with little hint of a man growing or, for that matter, wilting. Cosmopolis: Rpattz, from Kstew to Jstew to Dcron 2012-08-16T15:44:46Z By excluding the people, however, this version thins the dramatic texture and turns the play into a character study: one in which the sensual, death-haunted, strangely passive Danton confronts the repressed, life-fearing, remorselessly active Robespierre. Theatre review 2010-07-23T00:13:00Z The way I think of it, the right hand of your body is the doer side; the left hand is the passive side. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Or worse, I leave a passive aggressive but non-specific note: "Please leave this space as you would like to find it." Life lessons from the mosh pit 2012-08-22T00:17:09Z Tom is softly-spoken, passive, hates confrontation and will engage amorously with whichever girl is in front of him and giving him attention. Please Like Me: this millennial comedy is more than just the Australian Girls 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z They need active protection more than passive consumption. Perspective | I thought classical music could stand up to anything. Now it feels more vulnerable than ever. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The human body, far from being a passive vessel for whatever we choose to fill it with, is a busy chemical plant, transforming and redistributing the energy it receives. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Lythcott-Haims offers anecdotes of parents touring graduate schools, serving as mouthpieces for their shy, passive children, and submitting résumés to potential employers, sometimes without their children’s knowledge. ‘How to Raise an Adult,’ by Julie Lythcott-Haims 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z I’m a super passive person so this was a revelation. A Marriage Filled With Heroes, Villains and Eight Years of Romance 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Had the two friends lived a century later, the theatrics of Louis XIV would have embodied for them the state's effort to induce passive, voluntary submission among a crowd of spectators to a leader. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z She's a receptive presence but not a passive one, playing a character who can't hide from the horrors swirling around her, but who also has to fight to keep from getting swept away by them. Gabourey Sidibe: Playing the victim 2010-02-23T17:01:00Z Now they suggest he’s become a passive and sluggish consumer of pop culture. Music: On ?Recovery,? Eminem Reasserts His Core Values 2010-06-21T22:24:00Z "Cotton Fields" becomes a deconstruction of the relationship between artist and passive viewer. Review: 'In the Solitude of Cotton Fields' veers into unfamiliar, unsettling territory 2011-01-14T20:43:08Z Though the lengthy shots become more varied, even noisy, the audience is still invited to experience beyond the passive act of looking. Movie Review: ?Where Are You Taking Me,? Kimi Takesue?s Arty Look at Uganda 2012-03-02T01:13:17Z Despite sneering at the dinner as “boring and so negative” beforehand, he has managed to transform it in just a few years, both through passive and active measures. Trump wasn’t at the White House correspondents’ dinner — again — but his presence was felt 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Women who use public nudity for social commentary, art and protest are myth-busting along many dimensions: active, not passive; strong not vulnerable; together, not isolated; public, not private; and, usually, angry, not alluring. 6 reasons female nudity can be powerful 2014-01-22T19:54:00Z Highlights from the first year of episodes include a custody battle over a houseplant named Cassie and a passive aggressive windshield note at a Barry’s Bootcamp parking lot. 6 Podcasts to Help You Take an Actual Break This Summer 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z I remained a passive observer on the registry site, but it was our first step onto the bridge. Motherlode Blog: Donor Siblings, and a New Kind of Family 2012-07-01T11:00:09Z Until that day, passive learning by screen might be more your speed. Understand racism by watching these movies and TV shows exploring the Black experience in America 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z I keep on telling my therapist that I don’t want to make a passive choice. Isn't that selfish? Introducing our new series on childfree women 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z The depiction of brutalizing men and passive, victimized women is hard to watch. Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘On the Mountain’ in Paris 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Resisting the charms of Johansson should indicate a bravura performance, but Walker, a rambunctious delight in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, seems oddly passive here. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof – review 2013-01-18T10:08:04Z Her willful Juliet was the opposite of Fonteyn’s poetically passive, wronged one. Lynn Seymour, Acclaimed Ballerina and a Dramatic Force, Dies at 83 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z But there’s also something passive and a bit sad, something that belies, indeed undoes stereotypes and the expectations of men, active and upright. What's in a shape? For artist Andy Kolar, there's so much at play 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z What do you do in New York once you tire of the bar scene, eat your way through Yelp’s “Best of” restaurants and conclude that watching Film Forum documentaries is simply too passive? SideTour, a Means to Enlightenment and Adventure 2011-11-17T22:53:26Z As though those numbers were set, and we parents were passive in the process. Motherlode Blog: What We Spend to Raise a Child — and What We Don’t 2013-08-15T17:57:44Z It diminishes the knowledge, skills and abilities involved in their work and portrays them as passive and ignorant laborers incapable of creative culinary artistry. Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z It was once said of Kaul that he refused to be a passive carrier of the national artistic tradition and, with equal vehemence, was unconcerned with importing into India the western avant-garde experiment. Mani Kaul obituary 2011-07-14T17:33:24Z When he arrived onstage, big-eyed and bashful, the largely passive audience fully awoke. Music Review: On ?Idol? Tour, Beach Balls and Other Surprises 2010-07-09T21:25:00Z Being that passive is almost as bad as lying outright – either way, you're not doing the hard work of putting yourself on the line for the people you love when it's important. "Mad Men" recap: A man in a room with a checkbook 2010-08-09T12:13:00Z So here’s what I suggest: First, and everywhere, look for passive savings — meaning, you leave your lifestyle unchanged and simply pay less for it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Saving for the future shouldn’t come at the expense of your well-being 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z As he sees it, our relationship to books is excessively passive and primes us to be snookered by manipulative authors. Marginalia’s moment: Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and the joys of writing in books 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z This is not passive television — you must watch and pay attention. Sunday TV Picks: Season finale of 'Sherlock' on KCTS 2012-05-16T21:44:04Z Photography, when introduced to India by Europeans in the 19th century, was a tool of control, with the colonial eye behind the lens, the passive Indian body in front of it. TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Wilson himself took credit for his going electric, which might be a little bit of an exaggeration, but he was not a passive kind of person. Marshall Crenshaw pays homage to late producer Tom Wilson 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z There is no room in this scenario for passive watching. Anna Deavere Smith Contains Multitudes 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z If you go back not that long ago — 30 or 40 years — people were thought to be gay because they had overbearing mothers and passive fathers. How Andrew Solomon’s memoir of coming out became a completely different story 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z There is nothing passive or reactive about scripted reality TV. Do TV's 'scripted reality' shows fuel regional prejudice? 2011-07-16T23:07:08Z These stories are full of suffocating generosity, aggression so passive it’s like breathing splinters. Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel: What’s New in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Scotti, graceful and alert, is a quiet presence but not a passive one. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The loser in “Futures” sees a younger version of himself in his neighbor’s lost and strangely passive son. Books of The Times: Tall Tales From Gifted Storytellers 2011-06-20T22:00:07Z This helps turn users from passive sharers into active broadcasters. Why ABC reacted so swiftly to Roseanne’s racist tweet 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Growing their own Philip is passive, even passive aggressive, about the possibility that Paige will join the family business. 'The Americans' Recap: Paige and Kimberly, Growing Up Too Fast 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z He discussed the two ways to keep a body politic passive: Suppress all news, as in the case of North Korea, or inundate people with information. ArtsBeat: Why Must the News Be So Newsy? 2014-03-04T21:24:46Z It is a mixture of passive fatalism, and of a genuine faith in their leader: the fruits of 15 years of being taught not to think. Witnessing the Rise of Fascism in Italy 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z They spend 10 days in a barren, mountainous landscape, their interactions filled with spite, passive aggression and conflicting motivations, leading to a wrenching climax. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Queer Eye’ and ‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z There is active evil, and there is the passive kind. With "The U.S. and the Holocaust" Ken Burns makes a sobering addition to the American story 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z According to Ms. Constand’s testimony she was passive and, because of the intoxicants, unable to move, or fight him off, or even understand properly what was happening to her. For One Bill Cosby Juror, the Work Did Not End With the Trial 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z But Ruanne appeared to lose patience, rapidly, with the lack of feedback and initiative from the dancers, whom we saw receiving her corrections in passive, even sullen silence. The Agony and the Ecstasy: English Ballet's Black Swan? 2011-03-22T15:03:53Z This combination of elements leads Mike to describe Margie as a master of passive aggression when she shows up, uninvited, at his blandly expensive-looking office. | 'Good People': Been Back to the Old Neighborhood? 2011-03-04T03:09:46Z “Mrs. Ferris, I say this with respect,” she begins, almost trumpeting the passive aggression to follow. Theater Review: ‘City of Conversation’ Charts a Sea Change in Washington 2014-05-06T02:00:01Z You appear to be taking a rather passive approach to your own destiny. I’m having sex with a colleague, but does that mean we’re in a relationship? 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z He developed a passive exercise machine utilizing currents that he believed could contract muscles in patients too weak to exercise on their own; 20 minutes was thought to be the equivalent of a four-mile walk. 11 of John Harvey Kellogg's strangest inventions 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z The active malevolence of two assassins is dwarfed by the passive lethality of a wildfire in this thriller from the writer-director Taylor Sheridan. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Home Sweet Home’ and ‘Succession’ 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z It was more evidence that screens are not just a passive means of engaging with the world. This Was the Year When Everything Became TV 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Saba’s passive, judgmental mother is beholden to the camp’s midwife, herself a cruel traditionalist who is constantly condemning Saba for subverting their cultural norms. In This Novel of Exile, Sulaiman Addonia Writes From Experience 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Elliott argues that traditional talk therapy is “much less interactive” and “much more passive.” The breakup coach: Sometimes ice cream and Alanis aren’t enough 2013-05-05T00:00:00Z For nearly two decades, “Now That’s What I Call Music!” has churned out what passive pop consumers want to hear — compilations of hit songs of the moment. Betting That Rock Is Back (Again) 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z “I personally want to ‘do’ death in the active and not the passive,” he wrote, “and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.” Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 ? Obituary 2011-12-16T06:27:29Z He's very passive in the first part of the movie, he's waiting for his opportunities. Oliver Stone returns to "more complex" "Wall Street" 2010-10-14T03:30:00Z When the series began in 2009, she was a passive stay-at-home wife whose life was torn apart by her husband’s scandal. Comparing the Arcs of ‘The Good Wife’ and ‘Law & Order: SVU’ 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z They also promote “disrupting or queering the normally passive experience” that people have at poetry readings, museums and other art events. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z In a company that has been an engine behind new ballets, she has been a consistent presence in the room, and not just a passive one. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z The voices, and attitudes, of the three are identical: puzzled, passive and melancholy. In ‘The Factory,’ a Mysterious Company Manufactures Fear 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z His Bobby is not merely passive but disaffected to the point of depression. In the Berkshires, Musicals With Ambitions Not Always Realized 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z But the book depicts her as a passive, largely unformed character who is just reacting to the advances of others, and to the privileged atmosphere of her childhood. Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z I know I have to recognise my responsibility to myself and others, and become an active, not passive, force in my relationships. I slept with my best friend's ex. Now I'm terrified of confrontation 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Fear of being passive and out of control while facing such anxieties might additionally be naturally anxiety-provoking. Our new era of anxiety 2012-06-02T22:00:00Z “Hope is passive,” Moore said about the movie. Fahrenheit 11/9: first trailer for Michael Moore's Trump documentary 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In our time at least, reading is usually a private, passive activity, experienced as an individual internal dialogue with a writer’s words. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Page Meets Stage 2010-10-13T22:20:00Z This resulted in an unspoken "passive resistance" among prisoners, including my grandfather and those he referred to as his comrades. My grandfather survived the Holocaust. Here’s what his story tells me about today 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z I’m the passive recipient of his decision, rather than a person choosing to carry forward a pregnancy on her own. My partner didn't want children. I did. Then I got pregnant... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z That sort of “ephemeral fame” is “passive and limited to the respective event,” according to the study. Fame may not last 15 minutes after all 2013-05-06T18:13:00Z He does so with a subtlety that demands we be more than passive observers, that — to use a distinction made by Alex, talking about music — we listen instead of just hear. Review: ‘Heisenberg,’ With Mary-Louise Parker, Mines the Extraordinary in the Commonplace 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Bissett fully intends to exacerbate the sense of helplessness that is always to some extent part of being a passive spectator. Theater Review: ‘Roadkill’ Bears Witness to Human Trafficking 2013-06-17T02:00:09Z One-year-old American girls with a secure attachment to the mother are apt to become anxious adolescents if their mothers socialize their daughters to be passive with boys, noncompetitive in school, and guilty over sexual feelings. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z Pen trials such as these show that scribes were not just passive processors of the text, but active participants in making the text. Why so many medieval manuscripts feature doodles – and what they reveal 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z When I want to relax, I prefer passive entertainment, like looking at the telly. Chaka Khan on Artistic Freedom, Her Side Hustles and Joni Mitchell 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z So I have been doing petty things like leaving passive comments on Facebook. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Lashing out isn’t the ‘mature thing’ to do 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z This is a swaggering coif that means business, but it is contradicted by the 1965 Diamond’s passive posture and apologetic stammering. Review: ‘A Beautiful Noise’ Makes for a Morose Neil Diamond Musical 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z All of our systems work in a dynamic concert; even perception isn’t just the passive reception of information. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z None of these women have slight instruments or passive personas. Bro Country Duets, but With Pop-Star Gals 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Not that she is simply a passive victim. Review: In ‘When Animals Dream’ a Teenager’s Secret Is a Revelation Even to Her 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Fritz was raised in an assertive environment and would react to disagreements with anger and aggressiveness, while Mr. Fritz describes his family as more passive and would react to disagreements with avoidance. Counseling Is Not Only for Couples in Crisis 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Instead, he is aggressively, ostentatiously, explosively passive — a combustible milquetoast. | 'The Other Guys': Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Team Again for Laughs 2010-08-05T21:35:00Z "There are so many opportunities to be passive," said Smith, who describes herself as the author of the second act and the audience as the actors. Anna Deavere Smith takes on 'school-to-prison pipeline' in new show 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z When Wendy Whelan emerges from the group of women to dance with him, her spiky urgency seems inevitable; she is no passive vision of femininity but perhaps a part of him. Dance Review: The World of Robbins: Sinuous Dreams and Complex Geometry 2010-09-17T22:28:00Z As for the future, once you grasp the scale of the park it is easy to understand Mr. Van Valkenburgh’s strategy of segregating recreational areas from more passive leisure zones. Architecture Review | Brooklyn Bridge Park: Brooklyn Bridge Park Opens First Phase of Large Project 2010-04-01T22:47:00Z It is difficult to understand why policy on this issue is so passive. Pointless action on child pornography | Joe McNamee 2010-03-29T11:30:00Z “If you’re into black metal or death metal, you’re probably going to listen to almost every new release in that genre. The metal listener, they’re much more of an active listener than a passive listener.” What genres have benefited the most from the streaming era of music? 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z “We’re not passive receptacles for bigotry; we fight back, we stand up for our rights,” she says of the video. Hijab Grab Escape: the video that helps Muslim women fight bigotry 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z A woman in “Haven” is more passive-aggressive than just plain passive. Books of The Times: ‘Dear Life: Stories,’ by Alice Munro 2012-12-10T21:44:31Z The pandemic has pitted the passive cooks against the passionate ones, with some feeling increasingly annoyed by the culinary renaissance unfolding around them. Fancy Cakes? Quarantine Sourdough? Not for These Hapless Home Cooks 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z But I'd like to nail one myth that is rapidly gaining ground: that, in the pre-internet era, newspaper readers were simply passive consumers. Theatre critics still pack a punch 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z Charming but passive, Uncle Irving is the family mediator, but his loyalties are always with Hankie. Move Over, Royal Tenenbaums: Meet the Mighty Franks 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z To be sure, the Kochs haven’t been passive about their own media coverage in recent years. Koch Brothers’ involvement in Time Inc. purchase raises concerns 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z The women of the Lovette and Lopez Ochoa ballets weren’t passive; they made demands, they showed needs, but they carried on as if this were ballroom Romanticism à la Balanchine. Review: City Ballet’s Gala Evening of Misses ... and a Lot of Skin 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z But visitors’ perceptions of these magnificent items is solely intellectual, and also somewhat passive. Italian Wine Museums Appeal to the Intellect, but Not the Palate 2010-12-28T00:06:02Z At the very least, all this is a tacit admission that the academy is not a passive participant when it comes to diversity in Hollywood, merely beholden to films made outside the organization’s purview. The Oscars’ New Diversity Rules Are Sweeping but Safe 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Pierre Hardy offers elite, leisure-class footwear for those with enough passive income to support actual leisure time, and such leisurely delicacies as $520 sneakers. | Pierre Hardy: The Fun House Awaits 2010-12-16T05:50:13Z With the narrator Kirby Heyborne reading Mitchell’s short, compressed sentences, listening to the book feels less like a passive exercise and more like a lived, enchanted experience. Dear Match Book: What Audiobooks Will Liven Up My Summer Road Trips? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Here’s another lesson: Recumbent listening is not a passive activity. Perspective | How to listen alone in a lockdown 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Finding yourself in the thick of the action, rather than a passive observer in the dark, helps people to feel alive, she says, as if they've truly experienced something. Immersive theater appeals to audiences wanting to take part in art 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Sexual metaphors about giving and receiving, tops and bottoms, active and passive roles, as applied to everyday relationships, abound in this quick-moving comedy. | 'Trust': Zach Braff Stars as a New Millionaire 2010-08-13T04:00:00Z Girl toys, on the other hand, are usually pink and passive, emphasizing beauty and nurturing. How toys became gendered 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z And, most important, next time you write your story and attribute your decisions to somebody else, rewrite it on the spot without the passive voice. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Some boyfriends you quarantine with, others you quarantine from 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But objects are passive and I wanted some semblance of control before, as the church taught, my body went from belonging to my father to belonging to a husband. I don't believe in cheat days anymore, but sometimes I still miss them 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z But the book’s narrator is so hangdog, passive and frustrated that even those baguettes overshadow him. Books of The Times: A Very Big Man and the Brother Who Resents Him 2011-07-31T21:15:13Z But the dupes in Molière are often willingly victimized for passive- aggressive reasons. Comedy for hypochondriacs: It's A Noise Within's 'The Imaginary Invalid' 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Overbey, who is White, says she decided to go public with the goal of sparking an even broader conversation about what she describes as “passive racism” — the inaction of otherwise well-meaning people. A New Yorker staffer questions racial equality at the magazine — and becomes the talk of the town 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The picture of a young, female nuclear war protester in 1970s-style clothes lying down on the pavement in an act of passive resistance is exceptional for its historic interest. Art Review: Leon Levinstein?s Photographs of New Yorkers 2010-06-24T20:30:00Z Power’s editor, Rachel Kahan, sees a different, more passive kind of prejudice at work, too. After a Long and Painful Absence, Writing Her Way Home Again 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Arts festivals are often a passive experience, with viewers sitting quietly, watching performances. In Transit: Hong Kong Arts Festival Gets Interactive 2011-02-17T11:00:33Z And my husband, boyishly cute, tall, lanky, is a gentle, passive, and wildly intelligent man. My husband won’t sleep with me 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Fleming’s haggling notes about print runs and royalties continue through the first quarter of this volume, and they’re a study in dash, self-deprecation and passive aggression, all rolled into one. Review: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters in ‘The Man With the Golden Typewriter’ 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z For another, she writes dense, literary lyrics that ask for more than passive participation. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z His mobility is often dependent on others, and he keeps the camera off himself, in contrast with the many dramas that turn people with disabilities into passive subjects. ‘I Didn’t See You There’ Review: A View From His Seat 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z On repeated listens, the track lands as a deft tribute to Dej’s native city and is a disruptive radio presence unique enough in sound to garner fevered praise and passive scorn in equal measure. A Female Rapper Pushes Forward 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z For most of its action, Corky is basically passive, and Ms. Schumer is unable to create much of a character from that. Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z I was lonely in my room at night, where Netflix would accost me with the passive aggressive, "Are you still watching?" The best place to feel lonely is in a bagel shop 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Neither passive nor whimsical, this power of supposition underlay the simplest intentions and grandest plans. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Leigh said that while some people have seen Lucy as passive, she feels she is incredibly willful. Film: At Cannes, Women With Diverse Visions 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z More passive, or inert, screen interaction is proven by research not to have as much benefit.” A Guide to Determining the Quality of Your Kid’s Screen Time 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z "To be blinded" are constructions that imply a passive subject, and the protagonist at first is all but invisible. Poem of the week: H?m (noun) by Jen Hadfield 2010-07-05T11:11:00Z Download 5calls.org, an app that promises to “turn your passive participation into active resistance.” Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z "He's a victim, but I wanted to play the weakness, the vexation of being wronged without his being too miserable or too passive." Heartbreaker 2011-07-16T23:05:12Z A hulking contradiction tucked under a stratum of ropy muscle, his Dennis is at once massive and passive, as big as a house and shy as a mouse. Movie Review: ‘Teddy Bear,’ With the Danish Bodybuilder Kim Kold 2012-08-21T21:47:54Z I wanted the subjects in the film to be active not passive. In "The Other Fellow," real people named James Bond reveal the blessing and curse of the 007 moniker 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z The mystery writers' group says Warshawski challenged a genre where "women typically played minor or passive roles." Chicago's Paretsky earns top mystery writer award 2010-11-18T22:01:00Z Once committed to the movie, he aggressively pursued Theron for the lead role of the passive aggressive Gary who spews hate with just about every word that comes from her mouth. "Young Adult" is not women behaving badly, just real 2011-12-09T21:54:57Z There’s the Buster we know and love: not the passive victim of the hostile environment in which he finds himself, but its secret master. DVDs: Buster Keaton?s ?Steamboat Bill, Jr.? on DVD 2010-07-04T05:09:00Z Can I find audiobooks that offer not just passive entertainment or fleeting lessons, but concrete self-improvement? For Travel or Hibernation: New Audiobooks to Uplift, Soothe or Terrify 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z But because so little of that language is in the film, Sal emerges as an earnest, passive, almost drippy disciple more concerned with gathering material for a novel than with living high in the moment. Movie Review: ‘On the Road,’ Directed by Walter Salles 2012-12-20T23:12:37Z It dawned on me that I had been raised to be pretty and passive. 'I wanted to explore my own pleasure' – how I rebooted my sex life 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Linney, normally so vivid, disappears into the role of dowdy Daisy, who seems too passive to hang a movie on. ‘Hyde Park’ promising but lackluster 2012-12-13T22:24:44Z This coward in yellow tie and ginger suit spins on stage in a wheelchair, at once passive yet muscle-flexingly aggressive. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z There is nothing here for the passive viewer but ordinary objects unceremoniously displayed on modest white pedestals: a single sneaker, a dried-out kitchen sponge, a stuffed animal, a simple gray knit sweater. Yes, stick the bucket on your head: You're part of the art in Erwin Wurm's 'One Minute Sculptures' 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z But the passive Maria is strangely uninteresting at first. 'Beautiful Maria of My Soul': Oscar Hijuelos plumbs the story of 'Mambo Kings' ' beloved Maria 2010-06-23T23:37:00Z “Darker” is markedly less self-aware, and Anastasia — now a budding book editor — is a far more passive, insipid figure than in the first film. Women almost never direct big movies. ‘Fifty Shades’ shows why that matters. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z In each case, theatergoers are never more than a few feet from the actors — in some scenes, a few unsettling inches — turning from passive viewers to emotionally invested neighbors. Review: Pathos Times Two: A Double Dose of Inge, in Close Quarters 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z They are never content to remain passive within their heavy black outlines; there is always a sense of imminent movement. Saloua Raouda Choucair – review 2013-04-20T23:05:40Z But what about people like me, for whom passive artistic experiences have always been just fine, thank you? Starring Me! A Surreal Dive Into Immersive Theater 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Most of the black characters in the film are passive, with two notable exceptions. Mississippi Burning: a civil rights story of good intentions and suspect politics 2013-04-10T09:34:57Z The architects also looked at the country’s traditional earthen structures for passive solar techniques. Zaha Hadid’s Desert Think Tank: Environmental Beauty and Efficiency 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Gandhi calls this nonviolence "passive resistance" and later renames it Satyagraha or "adherence to truth." 'Great Soul': Joseph Lelyveld tells Mahatma Gandhi's larger-than-life story 2011-04-06T22:21:04Z I myself as a writer was asking, “Why are they so passive?” Damon Lindelof on ‘The Leftovers’ Finale, the Show’s Future and His Afterlife Obsession 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z But “even if you stumble or are out of tune, you will gain insights into the music that are much harder to reach via quiet, passive listening.” Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Hazel is rudderless, ordinary, passive; all the more impressive, then, is Nutting’s creation of a compelling, wholly sympathetic character from such a beige moral blob. The Real-Life Reality Show That Jumped the Shark 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z In an early version, she was flat, passive; she didn’t let on that she knew what Jeb was trying to do. This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on Writing Predators and Their Victims 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z A lithe, active Swartzman "arranges" a passive Kinoshita into various postures on the floor in a duet comprised of interlacing lifts, turns and caresses, with something both tender and coldly puppetlike about them. Home is where the toaster, couch and gymnastic tussles are, in UMAMI performance's 'home | bodies' 2010-08-05T21:58:00Z Brook checks the “Asian” box for the show, and I wonder whether her character — she is passive and needy — may rankle some of you. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: The Prison of Stereotypes 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z And did I happen to mention that Russell is surrounded by a particularly passive group of individuals? Will "Survivor" mastermind Russell reign supreme? 2009-12-13T01:30:00Z The focused, learning-centric toys that are absent from the big-box stores may "signal to a child a parental investment in ambition and accomplishment, in active absorption over passive observation." Motherlode Blog: Is There a Toy-Class Divide? 2012-12-11T15:34:40Z The actual cooking requires nothing more than passive waiting. The (Surprising) Rise of the Sheet Pan 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z But Sia was such a passive presence, when things weren’t quite as visually interesting, there wasn’t much else to draw you in. Did Sia need to come to her own show at the Key Thursday? 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Their poses seemed passive rather than confrontational, and Ms. Dembélé, 44, a pioneer of French hip-hop dance, suddenly spoke up. Vogue Dancers Subvert a Baroque Spectacle at the Paris Opera 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z In contrast with traditional notions of passive viewing, we find that series fans want to be in control. From speed viewing to watching the end first: How streaming has changed the way we consume TV 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z I want the audience to engage actively, rather than have a passive experience of being told exactly what to feel at all times — to question one's own experience because that activates their imagination. "Cyrano" director on what Peter Dinklage brings to this enchanting retelling of a classic 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z TIME’s spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “If someone looks around frantically, we can slow things down for them, and if they’re more passive, we can speed it up,” Planck said. Sundance 2015: The perils and pleasures of VR cinema 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z By even her own words, Mother Teresa’s view of suffering made no distinction between avoidable and unavoidable suffering, and instead cultivated passive acceptance of both. Was Mother Teresa a masochist? 2013-04-30T16:04:00Z Meanwhile, sexpionage films such as Mission: Impossible II fail to conceive their female characters as anything more than passive sex objects and Bond girls remain dazzling but disposable. Sexpionage! Why filmmakers can't resist a honeytrap 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z But the stronger animus against the movie seems to be an annoyance with the characters — passive, mopey, self-consciously “creative” even though they do not create much of anything — that extends to the filmmaker herself. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z If the environment was a factor in their success, it was not a passive “natural” advantage – runners’ engagement with their environment was active and creative. Why Ethiopia's running success is about more than poverty and altitude 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Predicting made me feel like I was in the game—more than just a passive observer. My Father and Sandy Koufax 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z "Sarah, be honest, do you ever feel like you're a little passive aggressive?" Seth Meyers taunts Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “When are you going to start telling us the truth?” 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Equinox claimed in a separate statement that Ross was a “passive investor,” and attempted to distance itself from the fund-raiser. Equinox Members Take a Stand Against Trump (Sort of) 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Tradition had taught that arteries had an active "pulsatory force", but Harvey realised they were passive, like the lead pipes of London's rapidly developing water system. Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review 2012-06-06T09:50:01Z Look Into It If you’re star makes headlines for the wrong reason, don’t be passive. Being Blunt: When the News Becomes the News: A Playbook for Recovering 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Cowperthwaite hopes that "Blackfish" will inspire others to take action and not be "passive consumers" like she once was. 'Blackfish' documentary dives into killer whale captivity 2013-07-18T21:58:39Z A new interpretation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, hoping to emphasise the active rather than passive nature of the lead character, is being staged at the Bristol Old Vic. AUDIO: Is Jane Eyre a feminist icon? 2014-02-11T10:21:12Z He insisted that “people are tired of passive experiences,” and Action Park was his proof: a grand experiment “where you control the action,” no matter how dangerous. Review | ‘Action Park’ looks back at one very dangerous amusement park 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z I countered with reasons video calls with friends and family do not have the same negative effects as watching passive content. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How should you respond to a child who lies to cover mistakes? 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Fox writes, “instantly binds with the spectator’s own sense of befuddlement as to the music’s location and identity, jarringly converting her/him from a passive to an active listener.” Jean-Luc Godard Is, Quietly, a Probing Musical Mind 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Is this a case of a passive populace honing its entrepreneurial instincts? What Trained Bears Can Teach Us About Formerly Authoritarian Countries 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Stripped of phones, watches and any wires to the wider world, we become the passive playthings of the artist, sternly instructed to move slowly but never stop in a strange dance across this stark countryside. Walking – review 2012-08-23T16:51:25Z Calling her “passive” would be a serious understatement. Book review: ‘The First Bad Man,’ by Miranda July 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z But the Jack Shainman Gallery, which represents Thomas, characterized the trust’s role as passive, as largely a matter of paperwork. They Pooled Their Art to Create a Nest Egg. They Say It Was a Mistake. 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z The filmmakers test the patience of the "Don't GO in there" crowd by making Sarah mostly passive and her actions seemingly illogical. 'Silent House': Terror in the darkness, in real time 2012-03-07T23:47:49Z Among Thrones fans, Arya was an instant fan favorite, while Sansa received some rather unfair criticism since she designed as a more passive character, trapped by circumstances beyond her control until the show’s latter seasons. Game of Thrones: Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner on Reuniting 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z She is unafraid and passive, making no efforts to escape. International Thrillers Favor Trysts over Treason 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z In contrast, passive procrastination is dumb, equivalent to laziness. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z The former is a passive expression of a desire; the later is an active decision. How to Fulfill Your Dreams When the Magic-Wand Fairy is Late 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The incident brought her popular visibility, but of a somewhat dubious kind: as crazy-lady artist, daring but ditsy, and a passive component of a male artist’s work. Charlotte Moorman, Tradition Disrupter, Is the Focus of Two Shows 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z We wanted Fix not just to be a passive woman letting men fight. "Around the World in 80 Days" co-creator on the twist ending, David Tennant and where to go next 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z But Michelle Obama has found a third way, coming across as serious and friendly, passive and aggressive. How Michelle Obama talks to voters in a way Hillary Clinton can’t 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z A critic in America’s National Review carped: “Excellent use of the passive voice, Governor.” Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Everything is as open and transparent as possible, with views through from one side of the building to the other, and glazed staff offices looking into the atrium to allow "passive supervision". Holland Park school opts for corporate vision with £80m building 2012-10-28T17:59:23Z Choice is the ultimate expression of freedom, I suppose, but choices can be made out of laziness, spite and passive aggression. Rigoberto González grew up in a family of immigrant farmerworkers. Now he writes award-winning books. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z In stories like the Harry Potter books or “The Lord of the Rings,” the beginning of the quest is a passive selection: Harry and Bilbo are chosen, plucked from their ordinary lives because it’s “time.” Young Heroines Who Are Saviors, but Not Saints 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Yet seeing Dovlatov and his clique solely as victims, the passive subjects of an overbearing regime, is to miss the subtler truth of their existence outside society’s formal ideas about success and validation. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “I was too passive and I looked like hell,” he said. How Is the Hottest Comic in America Still Under the Radar? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z If at any point you decide that you just want to be a passive witness, you simply remove the armband and you will be left alone. 101 2010-08-23T14:27:00Z We walk among them and live inside them but are largely passive dwellers in cities or towers, houses, open spaces, and shops we had no hand in creating.” Opinionator: Why Don?t We Read About Architecture? 2012-03-03T01:30:43Z At a moment when looking at a static art object is often dismissed unnecessarily by advocates of performance, participatory or social-practice art for encouraging only “passive contemplation,” Mr. Whitney’s paintings are opulently interactive and engaging. Review: Stanley Whitney’s Paintings Reinvent the Grid 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “There’s so much to learn about, how do you get an audience to change its position from the passive spectator?” she said in Cambridge. This Time, Anna Deavere Smith Cuts Close to Home 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z "Working on the changes George goes through, from a passive individual to an active participant in his own life, fascinated me," he says. Emma Roberts, Freddie Highmore meet at career crossroads 2011-06-19T04:20:05Z So assaults on the very concept of the welfare state are dressed up in talk of making people less passive, involving us in our society. The arts will survive cuts. Some people will struggle to 2010-10-20T11:35:00Z Its matinee idol image of a British leader, accompanied by that fawning tribute, leaves us unable to settle into passive absorption of familiar material. A World War II Exhibition at the Grolier Club 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z That leads to the second reason why the choice of titles may remain rather passive. Book doctor: Should schools buy new children's books or stick with the classics? 2013-07-23T09:17:11Z Though De Roller is in constant motion — by foot, jet ski and prop plane as well as his cream-colored Mercedes — he is a curiously becalmed, passive figure. ‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z “None of these artworks are really for passive contemplation,” said Andrew Wilson, curator of British contemporary art and archives at Tate, who put together the show. Conceptual Art’s Long Shadow 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The scene comes at a crucial moment in the movie, when the usually passive Tara turns the tables on Christian and forces him out of his sexual comfort zone. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z "Playing passive aggressive and waging war with a smile on your face is fun. It's all repression upon repression with a saintly smile," says Chancellor, who plays the imperious widow Lucia. Mapp and Lucia: Genteel enemies 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Price was introduced to shipping containers in New Mexico during the 1970s when they were used in passive solar housing. ‘The best thing since the brick’ 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z They did hope to disrupt the normally passive act of watching music videos. Round-the-Clock Giddiness in a 24-Hour Music Video 2013-12-25T23:06:53Z Bartleby taught us to look for resistance in forms of ascetic refusal; Amelia Bedelia turns passive aggression into a kind of art. The Secret Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, the Bartleby of Domestic Work 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Presenting him, and us, with a blank canvas of possibility, Köhler suggests we might transform from passive receptacles to active agents of our fate, but wonders if we remain bound to our basic nature. ‘In My Room’ Review: Alone Again, Unnaturally 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Other games manage to transmit a feeling of even more passive self-soothing. The Slow-Game App Is the New Smoke Break 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z And without threats or yelling or passive aggressiveness, you simply hold that boundary, no matter how much she cries or begs. Perspective | Why is my 3-year-old suddenly so disagreeable? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Yes, someone might get upset, dislike you, break up with you, etc, but passive aggression reaps all of these consequences, too. Carolyn Hax: How do you remedy your own passive-aggressive behavior? 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z As sweet as he is passive, he seems willing to offer himself up first to the flames. Alfred Molina, Jane Kaczmarek and the slow burn of a 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Will his career withstand the news that a revered action hero may be a passive participant in his own life? Tom Cruise, the bankable kook 2012-07-05T15:19:32Z Broken things are not necessarily neutralized, rendered passive, and easily discarded. "Succession" ends its second season with a killer instinct 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “Girls’ sadness is not passive, self-involved, or shallow,” she told the magazine Dazed. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z At what point do I stop giving her a pass on being an introvert and start seeing it as passive aggressive? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Worried about your wedding being upstaged? Get over it. 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z It’s easy for fans of a show like this to get frustrated with a wife like Skyler, whose role, by necessity of the plot, is largely passive. Breaking Bad Watch: Do You Want To Know a Secret? 2012-07-30T12:00:59Z I worry that Hollein is so far beyond his element that the Met’s risks another decade of weak leadership, and a passive board far too deferential to mid range talent. With Choice of New Director, the Met Gets a Scholar and a Showman 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z But he is perhaps too naturally passive a presence to be proactively evil. Review: Matthew Broderick Finds His Inner Satan in ‘The Seafarer’ 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z I suspect that your own engagement, worry and anxiety over his behavior and the sibling relationship keep you a passive and fretful witness. Perspective | Ask Amy: Adult kids’ fights always involve the folks 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z In some ways, she’s a passive doormat, whom Emma is able to prod into asking David to sign over his house to them over an epically uncomfortable dinner. Review: ‘Sally4Ever’ Sends a Black-Hearted Valentine 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Now a lack of proper communication over an entirely forgivable, completely inoffensive and passive, even endearing act constitutes dramatic tension? The Lucky One: Zac Efron Grows Up 2012-04-19T15:46:30Z None of the record’s 14 tracks are casual affairs, and only few of them are catchy enough to overcome a passive listen. David Bowie Challenges Listeners on The Next Day 2013-03-11T15:50:39Z As she embodies him, he is an actively passive presence, a person who registers even his own behavior as something happening outside himself. Review: ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ Elevator Repair Service’s Take on Faulkner 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The general notion of “First Man” is to offer a corrective to the myth of the passive astronaut, the idea that American space explorers were merely strapped in, sent up, photo-opped, and brought home. “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “But in those works, women are mostly such passive agents,” she said. A Woman at the Helm, Bringing ‘Victoria’ to Life 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Now, three-plus decades on, they are the stuff of innocuous background music, the sorts of songs that generate passive revenue for their publishing owners. John Mayer’s Empty 1980s Excess 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z But if in her exchanges with Willy Linda remains passive, she is the primary instigator in orchestrating the family’s desperate attempts to keep him from disintegrating entirely. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z Guerrero spoke to the boy’s trainer, who demonstrated his teaching routine: he moved the child’s passive limbs into the desired positions, which the boy would then replicate, trying to maintain the feeling of relaxation. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Privately, he is passive even when, encountering a depressed passenger on a train, life demands he intervene. Mark Watson ? review 2011-01-10T22:30:01Z Jean is unusually passive for a main character, which would be problematic if she didn’t win our sympathy as an underdog. ‘The Widow’ review: Can she find love in a killer marriage? 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z For one thing, Boratin is a mostly passive character, a listless existential hero who often drifts through his days with an alienation befitting a Camus protagonist. In ‘Labyrinth,’ a Musician With Amnesia Loses Life’s Rhythm 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The audience made the performance, and were an integral part of the experience – giving a lie to the thinking that any theatre that isn't immersive or interactive renders its audience passive. Lyn Gardner on the power of the audience 2010-07-28T20:45:00Z To watch a Loznitsa film is anything but a passive activity. What Does It Mean to Live in Ukraine? Filmmakers Offer Their Answers. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z It is also about relinquishing the illusion of knowledge that the passive consumption of news on social media facilitates and bringing our best selves to the act of becoming informed. The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z There's this quote at the beginning of the series about how video games transformed televisions from something where you were a passive viewer into an active participant. Netflix's "High Score" creators set out to reveal the diverse, unsung heroes in video game history 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Barnes’s view of Shostakovich conforms in every detail to the sentimental Cold War fable of a passive, pathetic yet saintly figure buffeted by an obtuse, implacable force. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z "I've been here for a minute / they've been here for a second," he says, taking the bad with the good, sniping about our region's stereotypical passive aggressiveness and raving about the purity of our air. Music Monday: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Jacks Green and Geo, Kid Presentable 2011-01-24T19:16:06Z Why had her family, her friends, her acquaintances been so incurious, so passive, about the jobs on which they depended? Her Town Depended on the Mill. Was It Also Making the Residents Sick? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s almost like internal passive aggression, where you resist the inner voice telling you what you “should” do by just shutting down and not doing whatever it is. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A husband’s put off by his wife’s procrastination 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z “To me, we’re not all passive victims. Make your choice, like Alicia Keys. Decide what makes you feel confident and enjoy it.” Alicia Keys and the ‘Tyranny of Makeup’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z “What would it be like, instead of using women as passive mark-making devices and divorcing them from agency, instead, the mark-making came from a sort of empowered labor?” For This Artist, the Medium Is the Body 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But facing down the death of the husband she never loved, she figures it’s time to trade the kvetching for a less passive activity. | 'The Lyons': ?The Lyons,? by Nicky Silver, at Vineyard Theater - Review 2011-10-12T02:05:01Z "The energy of the students was pretty passive when I got here," Vu said as he watched a rehearsal. UW jazz program energized by 'The Vu Effect' 2010-06-08T03:37:00Z You are not passive when you are hearing that song. We Asked Some Musicians to Pick Their Favorite Songs of All-Time 2011-10-26T13:25:58Z Siegfried can seem a passive ninny in the traditional “Swan Lake”; here he’s even more passive and delusional. Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Swan Lake’ Focuses on the Men 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Similarly, specific characters emerge from the throng to impose their wills on the eager but largely passive Joe. ‘Allegro,’ a Rarely Staged Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z What she embodies, he said, is hardly rebellious; modeling is by definition passive. A Few Words With Kate Moss, Fashion’s Garbo 2012-11-05T18:07:07Z As Clay Shirky's new book Cognitive Surplus argues, the internet, computer games and mobile devices are creating a new generation of active producers and sharers of content, rather than passive consumers. Liked the book? Try the app 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z In that sense, we are playing a passive role. "We never wanted to be teen heartthrobs": A-Ha lead singer on the band's longevity and "Take On Me" 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z In the middle of the 20th century, skeptical intellectuals of the left, right and center mistrusted the power that moving pictures could wield over the masses, turning active citizens into passive spectators. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z But adults seem to have grown used to being passive consumers of information, with a sense of entitlement and expectation. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z This Mag, too, is a maddening model of passive aggression, especially when she’s hinting that she knows more than her daughter does. Review: ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’: Oh Gosh, I’ve Turned Into My Mother 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z These dual conflicts with her parent and within herself often materialize in the text as surreal flights of passive aggression—she carefully itemizes offenses against her and then pointedly refuses to condemn them. “Small Fry,” Reviewed: Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s Mesmerizing, Discomfiting Memoir 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z She was criticized both for being too passive but also too pushy; for not speaking up enough but also being too opinionated. Leaning In? Won’t Help if Guys Are Leering, Writes Ellen Pao 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z “People think of museums, and they think of a very passive experience. But now we’re kind of reinventing what museums are,” Cara Lesser said. New science museums in the D.C. area are hands-on fun for kids Maybe all that passive resistance mumbo-jumbo Morgan was indoctrinating him with worked? The Walking Dead recap: season six, episode nine – No Way Out 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z When I followed up with Levitt by e-mail, he concurred that the “passive inhaler” has no cause to worry. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z Manenti, for her part, describes her passive, destructive negativity immediately after she was attacked: “He already stole my life force; I just felt like I was the living dead.” In “Not a Pretty Picture,” Two Rape Victims Collaborate to Restage an Assault 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z A natural ecstatic, he was also a chronic depressive: not a passive shut-down case, but a lamenter and yearner. Art Review: ?Paintings of Charles Burchfield? at the Whitney 2010-06-24T21:53:00Z What made this feel counterintuitive, like an act of passive resistance, was the atmosphere in the room: beery and oblivious, a shouting din. Music Review: Two Different Spins for a Noisy Room 2011-08-17T22:09:16Z And as he implied, the role that an audience plays in this alchemy isn’t exactly passive. Review: Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall, Precise and Aglow 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z “Women prefer passive murder,” he speculated, which earned Donny’s rejoinder: “You mean marriage.” Critic’s Notebook: Tightrope Comedy, on the Fly 2012-07-05T21:08:32Z Living among artists, actors and dancers in Denmark’s capital, Gerda was inspired by the idea of performance and painted stylised, long-limbed, made-up figures who looked active rather than passive, as if challenging the viewer. Gerda Wegener: 'The Lady Gaga of the 1920s' 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “Straw Dogs” has often been understood as an exposé of David’s hypocrisy, a revelation of the beast that lurks in the heart of even the most civilized and passive modern man. | 'Straw Dogs': A Remake of ?Straw Dogs,? by Rod Lurie - Review 2011-09-15T22:30:47Z “It’s almost congitive dissonance, throwing active and passive together,” he argues. South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive: Talking Digital Comics With ComiXology’s David Steinberger 2013-03-11T21:34:32Z You notice posture and gesture, who talks too much and who stays silent, who is passive and who is aggressive. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z As a strategy of resistance and protest, nonviolence is often seen as passive and resolutely individual. New & Noteworthy, From Paul Krugman to the Romantic Age 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Lane is so passive, he's even willing to lose his wife on what amounts to a technicality. "Mad Men" recap: A man in a room with a checkbook 2010-08-09T12:13:00Z Corollary to the “monster,” more passive, is the “stain”: some ugliness coloring someone’s life that you don’t want to know, that nonetheless spreads and can ruin perception of his or her work. Face to Face With Culture’s ‘Monsters’ 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z That opera, based a play by Apollinaire, involves a woman, Thérèse, who, wearying of passive femininity, assumes the identity of Tirésias, a conquering general. Denise Duval, French Soprano and Foremost Poulenc Interpreter, Dies at 94 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z But banning them from the passive act of liking? Simon Hoggart's sketch 2010-12-09T00:05:00Z Bradlee recalled his disdain for the passive suggestions, such as Living, Scene or Trends: “I liked the word ‘Style,’ ” he wrote. Perspective | The Style section at 50: Still sharp, snarky and soulful — and always a work in progress 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The other criticism of the passive voice is that it recurs in the worst kind of prose: leaden academic and bureaucratic writing in particular. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Ellen has never been so dull and useless, and Simon has never been so polite and passive aggressive. "American Idol" recap: The next Loretta Lynn? 2010-03-04T15:05:00Z Being aware of the importance of good sleep is often the most crucial factor to improving it; the key is not “being passive,” Vitiello said. What you need to know about research linking sleep deprivation and dementia 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Tender and passive, she lacks Esther’s mordant sarcasm, and she doesn’t fully connect her terror of constraint to the gendered demands clicking into place around her. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Conventional wisdom ascribes Taft’s mediocre performance to his weak political skills and passive personality, but Mr. Rosen also cites Taft’s philosophy of government. ‘William Howard Taft’ Review: Taking the Bully Out of the Pulpit 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Franz himself, even in his memories, is mostly a passive figure, riffing on nineteenth-century archaeologists or Proust’s debt to “A Thousand and One Nights.” A French Novelist Confronts Orientalism 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Leonardo, your character shifts from being passive victim to an active leader. "Phobias" horror film stars discuss tapping into fears, playing tortured, and anti-Asian attacks 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z "It really harnesses the power of TV, so that television is not just a passive experience, but you are really interacting with it," Kalodner added. Dressing for success with TV show "90210" 2011-02-10T20:10:52Z It's hard not to be a passive audience member, because everything is so far away, and there are distractions. Festivals guide 2012: star tips 2012-05-25T23:10:00Z Your passive hopefulness can turn into passive aggression when you try to manipulate someone into doing something without being brave enough to state your case. Ask Amy: Vacation dilemma calls for expert mind reader I discovered the value of nearly passive listening in the late 1980s, while taking in a program of Milton Babbitt’s piano works performed by Robert Taub. 2010-02-06T03:18:00Z For now, most of us see breathing as a passive action, something that we just do: breathe, live; stop breathing, die. How one hour of slow breathing changed my life 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Lust also hated the passive, indirect nature of Austrian German, compared to the German spoken in Germany or Switzerland. Vienna is cited as the world’s most livable city. Most exciting? Not so much. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Snow White is a much more can-do kind of princess than the passive heroine of yore, and this Prince Charming is quite a bit less masterful. Arts & Leisure: ?Mirror Mirror,? ?Grimm? and Hollywood Love for Fairy Tales 2012-03-21T12:00:11Z It’s Dante, who’s kind of passive, and he’s a poet and he’s philosophical. 2010-01-30T05:20:00Z If you watch the series with this in mind, you realize that the men are actually kind of passive figures carried along by the story. How ‘Unorthodox’ Captured One Woman’s Flight From Hasidic Brooklyn 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z It should not be a passive entertainment, a way to relax after a long day of holiday shopping. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z Nevertheless, true crime can be a passive teacher in the same way all entertainment is, after a fashion. What "Escaping Twin Flames" teaches us about the anti-trans nature of a supposedly loving cult 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z It is how she escapes reality – a passive resistance, like Gandhi. Marina Poplavskaya: 'I am a person of extraordinary ability' 2011-04-09T23:05:35Z Ms. Caplan’s passive attempt at protest became fairly common in the immediate aftermath of the election. The Empty Gesture of Red Carpet Protest 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Syrtash cautions against that impulse, saying that it often manifests in passive aggression that will ultimately hurt every kind of relationship. 10 Tips Every Introvert Should Know 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z We refer of course to the humble tree, so seemingly passive and yet so instrumental in getting us through high summer in Washington. Trees can’t escape the extreme heat. But they do have some impressive coping mechanisms. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z He is, for one thing, too passive to be the center of the story. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z As Richard II, the 14th-century king unseated by the man who became Henry IV, Mr. Redmayne is passive all right, but electrically so. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z Is his behavior passive aggression that, although unacceptable, stems from a grievance with you that’s as legitimate as your current grievance with him? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Disparaging hubby in front of kid is the symptom, not the problem 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Her performance here is all pulsing flesh and exposed nerve endings, dynamic resistance and passive fatalism. Review: ‘Fool for Love,’ a Kinship That Breaks Hearts and Knuckles 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Lonely, at times passive, she indulges in romance magazines to escape from her present drudgery. New Crime Novels from Louise Penny and Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The same fog applied to signs depicting rules or requests, which were often conveyed in passive voice, presumably to avoid giving offense. So, you’re hiking across rural Britain? Walking the walk is the easy part. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z We need to return to making music accessible to everyone and turn those passive listeners into active and enthusiastic audience members. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z “They’re passive,” added Mr. Serra, who is famous for his own mammoth steel constructions. Squeezing Essence From a Stone 2011-06-23T22:47:00Z Like Nick, it is accused of being passive, or worse — complicit in the spectacle it appears to criticize. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z She said in an interview that while Senta may seem more passive than the warrior Brünnhilde, she understands that in choosing the Dutchman, she is choosing death. Operatic Codependency? We Put Wagner on the Couch 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Theaters needed to stop thinking about audiences “as passive recipients,” Morris added. 3-D Sound and a Zoom Apocalypse: The Plays That Come to Life Online 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Sedgwick is not a naturally passive presence, but she does a good job of quietly conveying the fears of a woman who sees her very self fading as her beauty does. Review: ‘Off the Main Road’ Stars Kyra Sedgwick as a Wife in Distress 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The Hate U Give follows Starr’s journey from passive witness towards outspoken activism, as she awakens to the inequalities and injustices around her. The Hate U Give's Amandla Stenberg: ‘Our generation is upending Hollywood’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The nation, he declared, could not remain “passive under these progressive usurpations, and these accumulating wrongs.” James Madison’s Zigzag Path 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The recommended style of leads is to be aggressive against small slams but passive against grand slams. Bridge: A Slam Try and a Possible Way to Resist It 2011-04-06T21:05:12Z "It's not just a passive, 'just receive the ideas and do what you want with them' approach," Cartwright says. Seattle's Sandra Jackson-Dumont makes art a party 2011-05-26T18:46:02Z Theatergoers understood themselves to be part of the performance rather than passive observers of actions occurring onstage. Long Before ‘Hamilton’ Brouhaha, Theater Was Anything but Polite 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Those who remained passive received only minor injuries 75 percent of the time. What to Do When a Wild Animal Attacks 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But she wisely merges her script with the “living newspaper” concept, using the clown and the voice-over to tease the audience out of its passive state. ArtsBeat Blog: Liz Magic Laser's Political Theater of the Absurd 2011-11-14T23:18:23Z "Obscene tattoos on men were often tattooed forcibly on passive homosexuals, or people that lost at cards," says Murray. Russian criminal tattoos: breaking the code 2010-10-26T21:01:00Z He only wants to do what he wants to do, making faces and being passive aggressive at our suggestions. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: For a rude houseguest, time to set limits on hospitality 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Tobin is passive to the point of catatonia after a traumatic night at the motel. Theater Review: At the Vineyard, Reading Can Be Hazardous 2010-05-20T04:12:00Z There is something abstract and generic about the emotional abuse the siblings suffered at the hands of their obnoxious father and passive mother. Books of The Times: ?Carry the One,? a Novel by Carol Anshaw 2012-03-12T21:38:55Z He is a passive participant as windows are broken but EO is beaten by hooligans. "EO" is the gorgeously hypnotic drama about a donkey whose journey will break your heart 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Not everything works: the Mouse and his Child are essentially passive heroes, the scenario is episodic and the storytelling needs tightening to render the the synopsis in the programme unnecessary. The Mouse and His Child – review 2012-11-30T12:38:56Z Dear Carolyn: How do I stay on the high road and not take it personally when my neighbor regularly acts passive aggressive and snarky with me? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Any harm in ‘my house, my rules’ as the last word on unmarrieds sharing rooms? 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z Amanda is passive, and believes in the fairy tale; Mrs. Nixon was active, and believed in working hard to create her own scenario. Books of The Times: ?Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life,? by Ann Beattie - Review 2011-12-12T22:55:42Z Visiting one might be social — you went with friends — but fairly passive. Opinion: High Culture Goes Hands-On 2013-08-10T18:36:44Z But Oates’s women are not as passive as they seem. Unnerving short stories by Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates Traditionalist festivalgoers preferring a more passive role were entertained by circuit favourites The Orb, System 7 and Banco de Gaia as well as the Correspondents, Lamb and headliners the Beat. Hippy campers 2011-06-14T07:30:13Z Such subversive female derangement is mostly possible in horror films, where bullied, bloody girls burn down their schools and passive mothers sacrifice their children. What Megan Fox Taught Me About the Power of Subversive Girls 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z It is always a challenge for a dramatist when a character is more or less a passive victim. Keeping the faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z There’s a competitive passive aggression in their solicitude, and plenty of ego within their altruism. Review: Songs Say What a Family Can’t in ‘Sundown, Yellow Moon’ 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z At the book’s close, Edemariam reflects: “Wife, mother — imposed roles, unquestioned and in her time unquestionable; passive in a way, however fully inhabited and lovingly dispatched.” She Didn’t Know How to Read, but Her Stories Captured History 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z There is no energy in the action, and Morzé's performance is too passive and apathetic. Sigmund Freud offers love advice in the visually stunning but impotent WWII drama "The Tobacconist" 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z But as Aimee hobnobs in Tinsel Town, creates her own radio network and increases her flock, she's a curiously passive, almost sedate figure — an innocent sins just happen to. 'Saving Aimee': musical considers famed evangelist's life 2011-10-21T21:51:04Z The former describes the passive viewing of scripted dramas; the latter describes participatory entertainment, like video games, where shooting and mayhem are personally inflicted on characters. Real Violence Puts Pressure on TV Fiction 2013-01-13T21:09:28Z A less spirited woman might have been crushed by these alpha males, but Miller, unfazed, determinedly transformed herself from passive model to active artist. Lee Miller: the model, the monster and the mother 2013-04-22T21:00:00Z This fall a group of new books from established and debut authors continues the trend, presenting women and girls who refuse the roles of passive victim, staid detective or standard-issue femme fatale. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z This Romeo is passive, a mere bystander to his friend Mercutio’s death. Dance Review: ?Radio and Juliet? at Skirball Center - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:11Z A passive observer might wonder, shouldn’t these serious crimes be dealt with by the police? Why don't campus rape victims go to the police? 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z We are constantly angry and hurt over her passive aggression. Perspective | Ask Amy: Parents struggle to connect with son’s new wife and child 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Which is just as it should be, because the message of this opera is that pacifism is not passive. A Benjamin Britten Opera Opens Aldeburgh Festival 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z It was an attempt at showing him embodying the change that Mr. Baldwin thought was possible—the move toward an aggressive allyship, as opposed to a passive one. Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Handel House Museum, W1, Wed to 7 Nov Bystanding, Cardiff Rather than the passive observation this show's title suggests, the three artists here explore how a peripheral vision can quietly reshape the world. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z “It was so passive — as if they have no say over who comes in,” said Mr. Friedman, who writes about the restaurant industry. Louis C.K. Performs Again, but Club Gives Patrons an Out 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Mason is an observer, a hazy, passive character shaped by the people around him and his experiences that unfold in a series of vignettes, all the small moments that comprise a life. Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Amazon’s innovative strategy sought to reach a broader audience out of the gate through Facebook subscribers, rather than taking the more passive route of uploading to YouTube and then waiting for shares on Facebook. Amazon's Hysterical, Saucy 'Catastrophe' Marks An Inspired Win In The Binge Wars 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z He is serious, attentive and curiously passive, becoming aware of his own feelings only when other people point them out to him. | 'A Dangerous Method': ?A Dangerous Method,? by David Cronenberg - Review 2011-11-22T18:02:01Z Levin, who is so passive that all of his sex fantasies are about women putting the moves on him — "the aphrodisiac of someone else's courage" — starts taking action. Aleksandar Hemon's 'Zombie Wars' springs to humorous life unexpectedly 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z His interest in our passive acceptance of endless foreign war, bloody myths and social class divide is only occasionally betrayed by muted horror. Review | A Basque author contemplates a complex city in ‘Nevada Days’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z In between there are needling, squabbling and generalized passive aggression. | 'Parents? Evening': Julianne Nicholson and James Waterston at Flea Theater 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z But they tell me that we were not passive. Dominique Morisseau Asks: ‘What Does Freedom Look Like Now?’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z While hope is passive, optimism determines the actions we will take. Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z According to him, white Christianity has not merely been a passive bystander in the construction of this nation’s racial caste system, it has been the primary cultural and religious institution creating, promoting and preserving it. Is the White Church Inherently Racist? 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z They are not passive victims waiting to be saved by enlightened whites. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z "It's an old-fashioned passive word that I've trained myself out of using." Peter Bazalgette: 'Maybe I don't qualify as great or good' 2013-02-24T00:06:07Z “I think that treating people well now could be seen as a form of passive resistance and a rejection of what we see in the public arena,” Berman says. We live in uncivil times. Two former White House social secretaries offer a cure. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Another similar element of magazine work is balancing strong stories against more passive projects: in a magazine you always have a 'hero' shoot compared to the others. On the Runway Blog: Q & A With Katia Kuthe, New Director of Creative at Kate Spade 2012-07-19T17:00:08Z But interaction is more important than passive watching; that's just a waste of the art form. Simon Pegg and Crispian Mills: 'Musicians throw TVs. Actors just disappear' 2012-06-07T20:00:01Z For Jolie, as for some others who sidestepped the princess phase, Maleficent represented a charismatic alternative to traditional, passive fairy-tale heroines. The baby-cursing Maleficent gets to show a softer, less-wicked side 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z “In fact, exposure to these passive sources is increasing,” he said. Paleo, keto, fasting, Whole 30: Why food tribes are on the rise 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z It seems the Mall Galleries' clientele can cope with nudes, so long as the model is a more passive and unthreatening recipient of the wandering viewer's gaze. How is this painting 'pornographic' and 'disgusting'? 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Racial apathy is a more passive form of prejudice than explicit articulations of bigotry and racial hostility. Are today’s white kids less racist than their grandparents? 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z For someone who kills for a living, he’s awfully passive, having let his hit-man career happen to him more than having pursued it. Review: In ‘Barry,’ This Actor Slays Them, Offstage 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Scholars used to divide the Resistance into “active” and “passive” forms. Anti-Fascism With a Human Face 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z That said, Chinese peasants are hardly passive in the face of injustice. Birdies, bribes and bulldozers 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s almost like he’s this wet-behind-the-ears, kind of green, almost passive liberal guy. Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Though less mobile now, a visit to the museum is far from passive, and seeks to faithfully revive the fêtes foraines and buvettes of yore. A Paris Museum at Play 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Hot Topic and Urban Outfitters, there was suddenly a bounty of options for hardcore to passive Joy Division fans and those who just found a series of nice wavy lines slimming. How Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ image went from underground album cover to a piece of cultural ubiquity 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z And give credit to those who cast him, against obvious type, as the passive Sam instead of the increasingly crazy Steve. Theater Review: ‘Grace,’ With Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, at Cort Theater 2012-10-05T02:00:00Z “Live Dangerously” spotlights the works of 12 photographers who defy predictable, passive images of the female form in nature. In the #MeToo Era, Museums Celebrate Women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z While the love interest in that book is an annoyingly passive cipher, the narrator’s girlfriend is a free-love feminist with trenchant views on Asian stereotyping. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z We are passive in our liminal misery — waiting to be distracted, entertained, vaccinated, liberated. The Most Soothing Man on TikTok 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z This tends to work better if the reluctant halves get tasks they themselves need done — like laundry and grocery shopping — or don’t hate to the point of passive revolt. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A domestic chore imbalance is revealed, remedied — and still stoking resentment 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Shelah is a passive figure — her choices are all in the past — and the woe that descends on her seems like a playwriting conceit that even in these days of devastating hurricanes strains credulity. In 'Head of Passes,' a mother comes to terms with a storm, a secret and God 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Despite the thin veil of maternal protectiveness, Maggie is the kind of passive-aggressive mother who is too busy to really bother with the passive part. | 'We Live Here: ?We Live Here? by Zoe Kazan at City Center - Review 2011-10-13T02:01:11Z But using “well you’re living here for free!” as an angry or passive aggressive jab is not only cruel but insanely counter-productive. How to Talk to New Grads About Finding a Job 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z That $7,000 would not be deductible by a "passive" investor against other income, like salary. Buying Buildings For Cash 2011-01-26T23:00:00Z I became a passive victim, guzzling a bully-me cocktail: mix together equal parts low self-esteem and social awkwardness with a dash of desperation and stir. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z “We found that so much of the genius of nature is passive design,” he said. Zaha Hadid’s Desert Think Tank: Environmental Beauty and Efficiency 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z By bearing passive witness, vérité films prompt the same ethical questions raised by photography. Does Cinéma Vérité Exist? Watch These 2 Movies to Find Out 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Glamour and passive aggressive instructions from photographers go hand in hand. Golden Globes 2017: the red carpet, the winners, the speeches – live 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z There has always been something delightfully passive about watching “Downton Abbey,” and there still is. The latest thing at ‘Downton Abbey’: Exit signs 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Her debut is easily one of the best albums of the year and certainly the most exciting thing to happen to indie rock since passive earnestness replaced guarded cynicism more than a decade ago. Singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett lets her lyrics do the talking 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Its passive and vulnerable peasants live in misery, the outside world barely exists and their only tangible relationship is with the soil they cultivate. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z Despite his position as the apogee of this story, he remains a surprisingly passive character, whom we see through a glass darkly. Mary Rakow’s ‘This is Why I Came’ asks us to reimagine biblical tales 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z When you watch a film, you just want to watch something and be passive. Top 10 Tips for being a game designer 2014-04-25T23:31:19Z GM then was a private company in which the the U.S. government was a passive investor with a majority stake. Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Still Footing The Bill To Fix A German Automaker? 2012-08-03T19:05:48Z “The act of sitting is not a passive one,” Paul writes. ‘I Am My Own Subject’: Celia Paul on Lucian Freud, Motherhood and a Life in Art 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Me, I am a little alarmed that, even at this late juncture, Tom’s pose is still passive, with a hint of self-pity, and positions Jane, still, as a sort of homey shock absorber. “The Verificationist”: Donald Antrim’s unsung masterpiece 2012-06-17T16:00:00Z That’s important for Beale’s goal of seeing the developing world not as a passive recipient of aid but as a partner in development. In the ‘reverse Peace Corps,’ future leaders from abroad hone their skills 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z However, African American writers and activists objected to its depiction of passive, compliant slaves, and sentimentalised depiction of the south before the civil war. Gone With the Wind dropped from HBO Max over depiction of slavery 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The BSO played it straighter, more like concert music, in passive silence, and it didn’t work as well, or sound as good. Perspective | As a classical music critic, I used to think the ‘Star Wars’ score was beneath me. I was wrong. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z These characters are ultimately too passive to hold Ms. Schutz’s interest, or ours. Art Review: Dana Schutz at Neuberger Museum - Review 2011-10-06T23:56:06Z That shouldn't be too hard because we operate interactively, rather than within the restraints of passive storytelling. Satoru Iwata's game plan: Learn from Hollywood 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Being read to, listening to an audiobook, is a more passive experience, subject to the vagaries of another’s voice and largely unfolding in the narrator’s own time. Reading the Fine Print 2012-12-14T05:00:00Z No good reason is offered or indeed imaginable for always avoiding the passive, though Orwell did thus influence a whole generation of incompetent style-guide composers who repeated this loony stricture as gospel. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z Get yourself a passive, pretty robot who will ensure that dinner is on the table right before offering up unlimited sex on a nightly basis. Deadly reality TV and sex robots: what can we learn from films set in 2017? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Or are you a “passive spender” who never bothers to check the prices of things? A new leaf: the complete guide to getting your life back on track this autumn 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z At Stratford, for instance, an ethos prevails of theater as not simply a passive entertainment. Perspective | The dilemma for Shakespeare theaters: Increasing audiences without selling their souls 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z This movie, like most of Hong’s others, doesn’t pass judgment on its largely passive protagonist. ‘Grass’ Review: Eavesdropping in the Coffee Shop With Hong Sang-soo 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z A thoroughly modern house that heats and cools using no conventional furnace or air-conditioning, by its very definition a “passive house.” City’s first certified passive house is also a fun family home 2014-05-12T04:00:00Z Savoring, said Elizabeth Dunn, an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia and a leading happiness researcher, is an active, not passive, process. The Getaway: What a Great Trip! And I’m Not Even There Yet 2014-05-07T16:23:49Z Eating and watching, in general, are a natural pairing, two intensely enjoyable, relatively passive activities that together inspired an entire category of frozen food. Why Can’t You Get a Decent Meal at the Movies? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Kenny and Lee are still fighting and Lee is still arrogant, aggravating and passive aggressive and Kenny is using some deep breathing techniques not to lose his temper, but it’s not going so well. Hot Tubs, Handball & Many Bad Dates on 'The Bachelorette' 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Living organisms aren't passive victims, and there will be surprises there, too. The unpredictable power of nature 2013-02-15T18:01:01Z When things break down, the tension between her and the unseen technical staff is delightfully passive aggressive. ‘One Woman Show’ Review: Unlikable for Laughs 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z My father-in-law is a sweet guy but extremely passive. Carolyn Hax: Mother-in-law doesn’t have a filter, so run her words through yours 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Some vignettes are anecdotal; others are tangles of passive aggression, racial hostility or repellent one-upmanship. What’s on TV Wednesday: Tracee Ellis Ross, Stevie Wonder and Michelle Obama 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z "Ever since Sky changed their packaging and the music channels became an opt-in, passive consumers don't have anywhere else to spoonfeed them music." Radio 1's daytime takeover: liked Tinie? Try this lot 2011-01-03T21:30:01Z "It's an old-fashioned, passive word that I've trained myself out of using." Arts funding is investment, not subsidy, insists Bazalgette 2013-02-23T22:19:13Z Because a couple of naked young women have been bound with straps and suspended in shadowy space, strung up from the ceiling like passive slabs of meat. LACMA's exhibition 'Sculpt': Incoherent pretension for an audience of one 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z And she has a strong heroine, even though Caren is oddly passive even when she aggressively tries to uncover Belle Vie’s secrets. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z They’re lavishly coifed and luxuriously dressed, and, for the most part, passive, as inert and prettily posed as dolls waiting for someone to play with them. ‘The Woman King’ Review: She Slays 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z But Mr. Mackintosh, who has a gift for a kind of muffled passive aggression, makes it work. Television Review: ‘Inside Men,’ a BBC America Heist Drama 2012-06-19T20:56:38Z This may be merely a quirk on this reviewer’s part, but generally it doesn’t bode well for a movie when the opening text, setting up its premise, is in the passive voice. ‘Same Boat’ Review: At Sea, With an Assassin From the Future 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z And too many focus on noble Christians rescuing passive, helpless Jews. Why Are There So Many Holocaust Books for Kids? 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z I suggest that you evaluate and possibly accept the comments that might be, in fact, valuable insights — and verbally reject those which are passive swipes, demeaning or flat-out mean. Perspective | Ask Amy: Unsolicited advice meets resistance 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z For example, the passive, self-effacing language you use to describe your performance — nurturing your territory, never a negative review, team player — seems unlikely to wow employers looking for go-getters. Work Advice: How to perfect the personal pitch 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z And she can take action and seize a moment, even if she wants others to think she is passive. 'Justified' Recap: Ava Sticks to Boyd, and Her Own Dark Side 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z More than anything, I love how preparing these frozen pancakes is a passive exercise. Does pancake batter belong in your ice cube tray? 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Except that there is no passive at all: “there are no immediate plans…the feedback is…” may be flabby, but passive they aren’t. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In fact, moments into the film, despite the easy parallels on paper, Pierce Brosnan as Lang is so different – ebullient, and aggressive-aggressive rather than the passive- kind – from Blair that you forget the link. Olivia Williams 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z Sebald's seemingly passive prose was in fact – to borrow Marianne Moore's memorable phrase – "diction galvanised against inertia". WG Sebald: Reveries of a solitary walker 2013-04-20T07:00:25Z The researchers speculated these conversations were more “passive, repetitive and negative” compared to worries shared with others. How Parents Make Things Worse For Struggling College Kids 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Melissa Greco Liu delivered a finely nuanced performance as Kahlo: Her stoic posture conveyed the Mexican painter’s resolve, while her passive approach to movement befitted someone who was consumed by depression. Pleasurable performance at Dance Place features late Anna Sokolow’s choreography Berie remains passive, never questioning the leader’s arbitrary or cruel directives, and even taking his lies and hypocrisies in stride. ‘The Ash Family’ Is a Debut Novel for Our Climate-Anxious Age 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z People were expected to spurn passive forms of entertainment: instead, they'd supposedly insist on participating themselves. Prince of Persia shows why films based on video games will never work 2010-05-24T11:06:00Z “It’s worth acknowledging that actors aren’t passive victims of a global obsession with image,” she wrote. Red carpet coverage doesn’t have to be sexist 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z She accepted that she was a prisoner of the king, she was very passive. One Thousand and One Nights: Dangerous liaisons 2011-08-09T20:30:02Z The demeanor is deceptively passive as Peck coaxes his niece toward the driver’s seat of his car and teaches her to take the wheel. Review | Paula Vogel’s ‘How I Learned to Drive’ steers into the #MeToo era 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Left alone in their apartment with the care of their two young children, she undergoes a complete dismantling of her traditional, passive female identity and reassembles herself as a raging, active and ultimately autonomous being. ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ by Elena Ferrante 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z “In the Amazon world, we have customers now. It’s no longer a passive viewing experience,” said Clark. Amazon places bet on streaming, fast-paced music awards show 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z In a fast, light role such as this, her technique lacks bite or thrust; her manner is winsomely charming, even passive, as if she believes her prime task is just to be sweetly pretty. New York City Ballet Performs George Balanchine Classics 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Blind, but passive faith isn't enough for Maud to feel connected to God. How "Saint Maud" turns a feminist lens on body horror and gives its "final girl" autonomy 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z It's all quite beautiful in a passive way. Monk Feldman: The Northern Shore; In the Small Time of a Desert Flower – review 2012-07-26T21:05:01Z His sentences are frequently in the passive voice; his verbs eschew the pursuit of energy. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z It sharpens the edge in a passive butter lettuce salad and, McLagan notes, anchors the richness of a beef stew. What’s wrong with the celery you’re buying 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z There were hints of Rivera’s ambivalent Communist proclivities: a villainous-looking line foreman, visibly passive bourgeois visitors touring a plant, and a lone worker wearing leather gloves emblazoned with a red star. Review: ‘Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The crunch and burn and throb of the sauce crashes against the soft and passive tofu; the contrast enhances both. Little Pepper Packs More Than Heat in College Point 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z We want to be active, rather than passive spectators. How performance art took over 2012-07-03T17:30:01Z The reader has complete understanding of her passive suffering, her unarticulated despair; one is angry with her inability to fight back, at the same time as empathising with it. Elizabeth Jenkins obituary 2010-09-07T17:43:00Z “They want to be participants, not be passive, and they want a place to go,” she said. Artisphere: ‘Doomed from the start’ 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Realistically speaking, search advertising will always be more effective because of the active mindset of the individual, meaning they are actively searching for something rather than being targeted during passive social behavior. GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Billion Account 2012-05-15T19:36:23Z We are meant to be passive, and we are. Dance Review: Weavers Threading a Tale, Chapters 1 Through 20 2011-03-16T21:14:47Z It’s not that he doesn’t feel deeply — he certainly does — but he’s no passive canvas. Review: On John Moreland’s ‘High on Tulsa Heat,’ World-Weariness and Clarity 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z "When I was 5 years old it was a passive collaboration, I was a passive actor," Louis, 31, said. 'Jealousy' a Garrel family endeavor to create art from loss 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The loosely observed conceit of “Still Life in Lodz” is that certain objects bear passive witness to history. ‘Still Life in Lodz’ Review: A Painting Becomes a Window 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z In each capacity this unexceptional, gentle and rather passive man is beholden to the kindness of women, who prove to be the fairer sex in more ways than one, and ultimately the stronger as well. Review: ‘A Brief History of Women,’ an Alan Ayckbourn Comedy of Tragedies 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z One within America was between those who supported passive containment of Chinese Communism and those who sought active rollback. 1949: The Year That Set the Course of Chinese-American Relations 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Her relinquishment of the dream of motherhood in “Bubbles” is both passive and filled with a quiet grief. Poet Paisley Rekdal should be better known, and 'Imaginary Vessels' may be the collection to do it 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z After all that passive watching, a real breast rising up in the dim light of a bedroom might seem as cold and surreal as a moonscape. Cultural Studies: The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral 2011-04-15T22:03:59Z This transparency will allow brands to automatically target the publishers that are able to capture attention and reach engaged audiences rather than passive ones. Capitalizing On Attention, A New Pricing Scheme Will Change How Digital Ads Are Sold 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z “Computer imaging tends to flatten our magnificent, multi-sensory, simultaneous and synchronic capacities of imagination by turning the design process into a passive visual manipulation, a retinal journal,” Mr. Pallasmaa argued. At This Museum Show, You’re Encouraged to Follow Your Nose 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Kazee manages to find a soulful, quietly erotic energy in his passive character, and his singing voice shifts by stealthy degrees from tuneful plaintiveness to howling pain. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z Some liken sweating in a sauna to passive cardiovascular conditioning, which may interest anyone who has packed on pounds in quarantine. Saunas Are Hot 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z As Richard II, the 14th-century monarch unseated by the man who became Henry IV, Mr. Redmayne is passive all right, but electrically so. | London Theater Journal: Porcelain Portrayal of a Fragile King 2012-02-03T15:48:00Z We don’t necessarily associate roles like these — passive, emotive — with leading men. Men Who Aren’t Afraid of Tears 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Active circulating — vs. active looking or passive waiting — might be your elusive happy medium. Carolyn Hax: Waiting vs. searching for new love At first glance, “too passive” wouldn’t seem to apply to Cecilia, who works long hours running an illicit restaurant out of her home in Old Havana. Why Did Some Cubans Inject Themselves With H.I.V.? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Far from being a passive investor, Peltz has a reputation for being a hands-on, activist owner, with Trian occupying board seats and exercising influence over its companies. Wendy’s chairman and top owner is a Trump donor, fundraiser and friend 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z By the time I started work on my third book, I'd come to believe that novels weren't passive forms of entertainment. Mohsin Hamid on his enduring love of the second-person narrative 2013-03-22T07:00:02Z They adopted the methods of the New Mexico architect Michael Reynolds, the creator of the Earthship concept and its passive solar design, which provides heating and cooling. For Taste of Farm Life, There’s No Place Like a Homestead 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The statement was less a press release than a model of passive aggression. Snubbing Margaret Thatcher’s Clothes 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z They come across as passive participants to the viewer’s gaze. Black Can Be Even More Beautiful 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But that struck her as “a little passive,” she explained. Date Lab: He erred too far on the side of under-chivalrous, rather than over-chivalrous 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z All kinds of behavior — manipulative, passive; charming, tough; talkative, silent — emerged, to the point that the show became expressively incoherent. Still Reforming Postmodern Dance, California Roots Intact 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Spofford’s passive resistance to these changes includes a refusal to sell chickens to the invaders. The off-kilter universe of novelist Peter De Vries, back in print 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z But the idea was: We are the rebels, we were once Freud’s patients, but now we’re not passive and vulnerable and being spoken for. Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Human behaviour is not just a clear-cut matter of cue and consequence, because human beings are not passive objects, but deeply social beings. Bee Wilson | No diet, no detox: how to relearn the art of eating 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z "A good read" is now considered the highest recommendation, though the phrase is entirely non-descriptive and reduces a once purposive and active verb to a meek and passive noun. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z “It shows that Iranians are not just a bunch of fanatics, or just passive victims of an oppressive regime. It shows Iranian society in its complexity.” ‘Tehran’ Is the Latest Israeli Thriller, Emphasis on Thrills 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z She made a kind of passive kinetic art that also relates to textiles and fiber art. Review: ‘Gego: Autobiography of a Line’ Highlights a Sculptor’s Kinetic Work 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Prevent the passive selling of stuff to your kids when they’re not paying attention. This holiday season, protect your kid from consumerism by just saying 'no' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The proper brief against the passive is twofold. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In that sense, it was attractive to me, because it was a lot less passive than just lying there and trembling. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z Elizabeth is supposed to be one of those, but her relentlessness is apparently of the slow-developing variety, because in the first two episodes, she is mostly a passive love object. Television Review: ‘The White Queen’ Has Its Premiere on Starz 2013-08-09T21:49:23Z In the face of their own deepest hopes, they are passive to a fault. ‘Corsicana’ Review: Four Lost Hearts in the Heart of Texas 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z They are too passive and overly reliant on evergreens. This low-maintenance garden shows you don’t need flowers to shine 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z You can't undermine your own brand by passive aggressively giving a bunch of money to other players who did not win the jury vote. Sandra wins "Survivor," but can the show be saved? 2010-05-17T12:35:00Z Seen as unworldly by his family, David is something of a recluse, a passive witness to life’s concert. Remembering a Lover Who Never Revealed Her True Nature 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The smartest thing about the universe of Moran’s Girl is that growing up isn’t a passive activity, a thing that happens to you. Review: In Her First Novel, Caitlin Moran Explains How To Build a Girl 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z But Mr. Grenier and Vince are both far too bland and passive to be credible movie stars, and Mr. Connolly’s knowing smirk, meant to signal Eric’s integrity, has the opposite effect. Review: ‘Entourage,’ the Screen Is Bigger, but Nothing Is Better 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Are they making passive listeners active, or are they making all listeners passive? ArtsBeat: Popcast: Who Owns Your Taste in Music? 2014-03-14T16:15:01Z Shopping is probably the most passive activity there is. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z Another idea that’s addressed in both “Beale Street” and “The Fire Next Time” is the idea of the passive liberal—Baldwin asks what action, if any, progressives are taking. Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Some may dismiss this way of living as “passive.” This Week in Fiction: Haruki Murakami 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z So appreciating what they did was partly about ignoring stuff and the rest just a very passive experience. Concert review: Beach House at Showbox 2012-10-05T16:31:07Z That becomes his stock, passive response as he slowly ceases all activity much to the chagrin of the flabbergasted narrator. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z She isn’t ridiculous in the role, and her eyes do look violet, but she is oddly passive, sleepwalking through scenes that call for passion and caprice. Television Review: ‘Liz & Dick,’ Starring Lindsay Lohan, on Lifetime 2012-11-23T21:58:09Z That said, the change from a passive to an active listening experience is a radical one. Live from planet Bj?rk 2011-07-04T19:00:00Z The theatre world remains strangely passive in the face of overwhelming evidence of its failure to address the gender imbalance both on and off stage. Exit the women, stage left 2012-12-10T19:30:42Z In my earlier drafts, Jane Re was so passive, in the vein of those old English novels. Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z But when deployed as a means making personal ire a public event, the open letter can become, as a friend notes, “quite passive and dehumanizing, like fighting with each other through surrogates.” Open Letter Writers: Cut it out! 2014-04-01T18:48:00Z And it wasn’t just a matter of length, that article continued: …Zhivago in the book is more a passive observer, a spokesman for Pasternak’s own vision and soaring humanism than a Hotspur to action. How 'Doctor Zhivago' Went From Page to Screen 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z It means that a person is only a passive onlooker, with neither the means nor the interest to know what’s truly going on. The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The Catholic church, the dominant force in education during much of Belgium’s existence, was at worst an active participant in colonialism, at best a passive bystander. As protests grow, Belgium faces its racist colonial past 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z They may well believe that, like the hairless, passive and benign feminine allegories of grand masters' paintings, women naturally do not have any body hair. Pubic hair removal: The naked truth 2011-02-11T07:00:02Z Abstraction forces a viewer to become a participant in an art work, so that the viewing process “is not just passive,” she said. ‘Interpretation of Trees’ on exhibit at the Embassy of Argentina 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The weeks swell with marital tension and adolescent resentment as though we’re watching the most passiveaggressive episode of “The Brady Bunch” ever conceived. ‘Commonwealth’: Ann Patchett’s masterful novel of family and family secrets 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Nor was Liza as passive or downtrodden as Mama March.” ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z She burns with rage and disbelief as she encounters ineffectual cops, her passive ex-husband, and others whose lack of urgency or concern infuriates her. In the gripping "La Civil," a daughter is kidnapped as the fallout of Mexico's ongoing drug wars 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z A shy, passive, recessive figure has been transformed into an active, mettlesome, gender-challenging presence, a poet in control of her art and environment, and fully conscious of the mechanics of personal myth. My Hero, Emily Dickinson, Outlaw of Amherst 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z This stroller meets voluntary certification by the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association, which tests for stability, impact, passive containment and shoulder straps. The best strollers, according to experts 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Nam makes for an engaging hero in "Phobias" as he goes from a passive victim to active leader. "Phobias" horror film stars discuss tapping into fears, playing tortured, and anti-Asian attacks 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Because they were not passive beings and acted on their resentment at being kept down, they dared to do what other women would not. Britney Spears and the ‘B-Word’: “A Term of Endearment” 2013-10-20T16:33:34Z A passive spectator who says nothing, whatever happens on stage, and who applauds at all the right moments? Audience: witchhunt in the aisles 2011-08-10T21:45:01Z The movie’s passive wonder is the core of its popularity. The Blinding Cinematic Whiteness of “Black Mass” 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z But “Still” finished with a kind of passive lineup, as if the dancers were at rehearsal waiting for Gamson’s notes. Choreographer Rosanna Gamson delivers a 'Restless' night of dance at REDCAT 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Sure, it’s more passive and less communal, but it’s still in its infancy. Jon Stewart, capitalist stooge? 2012-07-25T21:00:00Z Merida is active instead of passive, a doer rather than a gal who hangs around the castle waiting for Prince Charming to rescue her. Movie Review: ‘Brave,’ Pixar’s New Animated Film 2012-06-21T17:25:04Z They are all Olympians in the sport of passive aggression. Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Yet over all, the tale is passive and seems to end at least twice before the lights finally come down. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Andrew, by contrast, is so passive that he barely registers until deep in the second act. Review: A Sprawling ‘Days to Come’ Has Everything Except Central Figures 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z “Another reason for this embrace of performance events is that they are thought to activate the viewer, who is thereby assumed, wrongly, to be passive to begin with,” he writes. Nice Museum. Where’s the Art? 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z In addition, “Mr. Ross is a passive investor and is not involved in the management of either business.” Perspective | The SoulCycle and Equinox controversy hits close to home — because they’re selling an idealized version of you 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z To call her an icon would be to make her too passive and inert. Jeanne Moreau: the intelligent, complex star who lit up the French New Wave 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z But she is considerably more resourceful and less passive than Dickens’s winsome waif. London Theater Journal: Firebrands 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z “As all these awful things are happening, the donkey is so passive, and you see the existential crises in its eyes,” he says. What’s it like to live as one of the ‘worst’ comics in the world? Gregg Turkington is finally talking about it. 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Then see whether you, he, and the power balance in this relationship are healthy enough to hold up under the pressure of forceful moms and passive dads and overloads of work. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Have you broken your habit of lying enough to be honest about it? 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Compassion fatigue, one of the pandemic’s buzzwords from earlier this summer, is passive: It’s an exhaustion, especially among health-care workers, with the level of death and hostility, resulting in complete apathy. What do all these stories of vaccine denial deaths do to our sense of empathy? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Treat your dealings with her accordingly, and expect the snark, anticipate the passive aggression. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Any harm in ‘my house, my rules’ as the last word on unmarrieds sharing rooms? 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z If the devil lives in our language, then it feeds off passive voice: I am, you are, she is. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z This maternal image embodies a theological type known as the Throne of Wisdom, in which the Virgin serves as the passive support and the child, the active sapient force. ‘Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Charlie Day casts himself as a passive, nearly silent actor, Latte Pronto, in his feature directing debut, “Fool’s Paradise.” ‘Fool’s Paradise’ Review: No Talent? No Problem! 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z In “The Second Sex,” Simone de Beauvoir describes the pregnant woman as “life’s passive instrument.” The Wild Woman Awakens 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z One is Jen’s fiancée, Macy, who never wanted to get married in the first place but opposes a passive response to prejudice. Review: ‘The Cake’ Is Well-Baked but Not Quite Filling 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Kent and Stella Abrera were correctly passive and wronged and unhappy: a waste of these artists. Review: ‘Othello’ Is Performed by the American Ballet Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Freudian defense mechanisms that you may be familiar with are denial, humor, projection, idealizing, intellectualizing, and passive aggression. Anal, neurotic, defensive, hysterical: We reference Freud everyday — often without even realizing it 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z So, not aggressive, but not exactly passive anymore either. Demi Lovato confirms the obvious: Nothing in common with Miley Cyrus 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z A delicate ethical line separates witness — an active, morally engaged state of attention — from the more passive, less demanding condition of spectatorship. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z He decided to go passive, selecting a trump. Bridge: This Year?s King of Bridge Had Played Just 18 Months 2011-08-12T21:59:28Z “In the City of Killing” draws on “stereotypes of feminized Jewish males hopelessly softened by the humiliations of the diaspora” and of “the superstitions of blandly passive religiosity.” Before the Holocaust, Jewish Suffering Had One Name: Kishinev 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Simply being a bystander, a passive listener to music, isn’t an entirely satisfying form of understanding. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z How they want to have it depends on the pocket: the left pocket, for example, indicates a desire to play the dominant role, and right the passive. Queer art pushes boundaries: why I made my explicit gay porn music video | Brendan Maclean 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z But not nearly as passive aggressive as the other women who can’t believe that Ben is doing such a bad job of pretending he doesn’t like Lauren best. Ben Kisses The Girls And Makes Them Cry on 'The Bachelor' 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It takes her awhile to realize she’s been the passive witness to something dreadful, and it takes her even longer to process it. Review: A Teenager Bears Witness to Backwoods Intrigue in ‘History of Wolves’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z As both a stripper and a call girl, I played the part of a passive sexual object. Intimacy after the “call girl” years: How sex work changed the way I have sex 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The scene—in which the characters move from passive observation to physical action, and, in the process, seem actually to undergo a spiritual and emotional transformation—runs for a half hour. A Five-Hour Japanese Film Captures the Agonizing Intimacies of Daily Life 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z But unlike him, I will not allow myself to be a passive agent in my own life – I will wait only so long. What I’m really thinking: the other woman 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Having failed to solve the world's biggest mystery, organized religion finds itself adjusting to a more passive social role. The Leftovers: confusion and doubt mirrors my religious journey 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Cruises, as Wallace put it, serve that “part of me that craves pampering and passive pleasure: the dissatisfied-infant part of me, the part that always and indiscriminately wants”. Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth? 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z That last one is the definition of passive aggression, by the way. Carolyn Hax: A boyfriend’s inaction on fertility treatment speaks volumes 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z MacLeish roused his fellow librarians by telling them they “must become active and not passive agents of the democratic process.” Review | The Library of Congress: ‘The book Palace of the American People’ 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Sansa, in extremis, finds that she is not just passive and beaten, giving the women and children inside the Red Keep the kind of queenly comfort that Cersei can only show to a blood relative. Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky 2012-05-28T15:20:17Z That's a marvelous piece of writing, with its passive voice construction putting the chores, as opposed to the chore-bearer, front and center, rendering them less intentional than inevitable. Patti Smith's 'M Train' reckons with life, while 'Collected Lyrics' shows her living energy as words 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Fiona and Finn’s father was a psychologist who loved runny eggs, choral music, basketball and passing along bits of therapy-speak to his children, like the meaning of “passive aggressive.” Great New Children’s Books About Animals 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z I tell her she makes herself sound rather passive and again she corrects me; it was not like that at all. Cate Blanchett: ‘I used to be very socially awkward’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z In contrast, we continue to resist the idea that we might love things and spaces which signal their passive inanimateness: a blank stone, a chair seat, or a flat landscape. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z "There is nothing passive in Mozart," he told student Jongyun Kim, who sat at a piano and struck the opening note of Piano Sonata No. 13. Fabio Bidini, 'last teacher' to Colburn School's pianists, thrives 'inside the music' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z At my age, I’m into creating passive income. Chaka Khan on Artistic Freedom, Her Side Hustles and Joni Mitchell 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The Rose we glimpse in the dream past is not entirely the passive princess of the classic story, but an architect of her own undoing. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z Michelle Boulé, Dancer-Artist at Work THE idea of the passive female muse inspiring the brilliant male maker conjures all sorts of musty historical images. Snapshot : Michelle Boulé, Dancer-Artist at Work 2012-11-25T00:20:06Z She made her audience hang on the Sleepwalker’s passive and active aspects. Critic?s Notebook: A Season Brings New Faces and Insights to Classic Roles 2011-05-23T22:10:34Z I am a documentarian, interested in sociological issues – but I'm not a passive observer, or a fly on the wall. Photographer Lauren Greenfield's best shot 2010-03-31T21:30:00Z Bernhardt may have been an object of extraordinary fascination, but nothing about her was passive. Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z At best, this for-the-children rhetoric is passive, saying, “Well, somehow, things — the environment, racism, civil rights, the pay gap — will get better down the line.” Insidious political cliché alert: Stop saying it’s all about the kids 2014-04-21T22:59:00Z “This was a way of inviting the public inside to make them not just passive recipients of what’s on the wall, but actual participants,” Ikemoto said. Whose Writing Is on the Wall at the Museum? It Could Be Yours. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z It's about a series of choices and decisions that you can make that doesn't allow you to be a passive victim of your emotions, that can increase the quality of your life. Rainn Wilson doesn't hold back: "Here's the guy from 'The Office' talking about suffering and death" 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z In earlier versions of the story, including the 1944 George Cukor film, the wife, Bella, is a bewildered victim of psychological torture and a mostly passive participant in the escape from her husband, Jack. Blame Canada (or at Least Ontario) for a Wealth of Smart Revivals 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In other words, the Beirut bombing, and the passive American response to it, played a key role in emboldening bin Laden to undertake the audacious 9/11 assault. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z One way of interpreting the international audience's greater appetite for sequels is that, at blockbuster level, most countries are passive consumers for what Hollywood puts out – rather than producing their own spectaculars. Action sequels hit more targets beyond US shores 2013-03-05T13:13:51Z In overhead balances, the woman, far from passive, relies on the strength in her upper back to hold her weight. Twyla Tharp: ‘Each One of the Dances Is My Hope for a Perfect World’ 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z More skeptical readers and moviegoers detected something patronizing in a liberal white lawyer riding to the rescue of a poor, uneducated black man who was cast in the role of innocent, but passive, victim. In Harper Lee’s Novels, a Loss of Innocence as Children and Again as Adults 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z "Martin and Folke see it as an architecture of resistance, against the ways people are so often just passive users of the buildings they're given by politicians, developers and their architects." Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre 2010-08-16T20:30:00Z She was passive, but she had a strong spine and she got a lot done. Laura Linney: 'America's very puritanical' 2013-01-13T20:00:00Z Critics of “Heidi” — and the harshest of them were feminists claiming betrayal — groused about the script’s easygoing comedy, passive title character and dominant men. ‘Rapture’ and ‘Heidi Chronicles’: Feminism then and now 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “It’s a lot easier, and more fun, to experience the war as a passive form of entertainment than as a source of moral distress requiring citizen activism.” Jon Stewart, capitalist stooge? 2012-07-25T21:00:00Z He gives the reader a view of New York through the lens of a photographer, evoking the famous analogy Christopher Isherwood made of himself as a camera "with its shutter open, quite passive, recording". Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:38Z “As a viewer, you can’t be passive with his work,” Ms. Martin said. Firing up Weird Science at the Whitney 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z In comparable Mbembe images, women seem to be — simultaneously and magnificently — active and passive. ‘Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z What happens beyond the meet-cute when the nice guy’s geniality masks extreme passive aggression? From Love to Girls – what TV's most toxic couples can teach us 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z It's amazing, but there's a danger that we can become passive. Manchester International Festival 2013 2013-05-24T14:08:00Z For all their sound and fury, they’re essentially passive creatures, who expect every wish to be acted upon by obliging grown-ups. Theater Review: ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Opens in London 2013-06-26T16:33:57Z The shopper, the student, the worker, and the voter are all seen by consumerism and behaviorism the same way: passive, conditionable objects. Why are Americans so easy to manipulate? 2012-10-13T14:00:00Z This institutional work is abstract and passive, though the suffering is no less real for those rendered non-persons by the state. Paul LePage’s guillotine dream: A warped, bloodthirsty fantasy of justice resurrected for the YouTube age 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z “Pakistani viewers who had for long been turned into passive consumers of TV or film were all of a sudden actively talking about the role of art in their lives,” Farooq said. An L.G.B.T. Pakistani Film, Banned at Home, Is Celebrated Abroad 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “The important point is to show that the experience of art isn’t a passive one anymore,” said Tom Eccles, director of the center. Inside Art: Francis Bacon?s ?Portrait of Henrietta Moraes? at Christie?s 2012-01-19T22:12:50Z That means a lot of different motivations, passive and active resistance, agendas, timelines, personalities, levels of technology comfort, and cultures. Invite-Only: Drund Sees A Future In Social Media 'Ownership' 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z If memes are about rejecting a passive consumption of the election, they are equally about asserting individual autonomy in choosing what to share and repositioning a major news event as a statement about ourselves. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z She is both a dominating totem figure and largely passive in the man’s control; the way he becomes Pygmalion to her Galatea can be enthralling. Dance Review: Ridding a Moody Cunningham Work of Ambiguity, One Gesture at a Time 2011-02-14T23:29:10Z Unlike, say, passive viewers of Comedy Central, though, Netflix watchers requires at least a bit of action, which is a potential drawback for some. The Comedy Lineup Expands on Netflix 2013-08-29T04:11:00Z For young people, events give a sense of urgency and purpose, but what is important to me is that you feel like you own the event rather than it being a passive experience. Why is TV so bad at music shows? 2013-07-24T17:04:08Z Could that sort of physically passive but focused attention on music produce the same physiological effect that the players experience? Music gets you high 2012-11-23T16:00:00Z So, she was always talking about, that person is narcissistic, or this is the archetype, and that's passive aggressive. Actresses bond over playing dress up, tattoos and aging on screen 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Not long ago, TV was a relatively simple three-legged stool: you had creators, you had critics and you had viewers, i.e. the passive, Nielsen-monitored masses. Can ?The Killing? Make a Comeback? 2012-03-18T03:49:06Z When penetrating a computer, is an analyst really given a choice between clicking on “active” or “passive,” depending on whether she wants to mess around in there? Dangers Close to Home: Four New Domestic Thrillers 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z I think that if she didn't do this passive roadblock of disapproval about things she considers silly — like, all fun stuff! Carolyn Hax: Brother’s girlfriend has shiny hair and a lusterless personality 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The problem is in confusing action and vigorous writing with the active voice, and weak, vague sentences with the passive. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z She registers principally as an attractive but passive Trilby to her Svengali mentor-lover, a choreographer played by a glowering Michael Berresse. ‘The Band Wagon’ Stars Brian Stokes Mitchell 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: I’m curious where you draw the line between being introverted and passive aggressive. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Worried about your wedding being upstaged? Get over it. 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Kanders’s statement did not address the reasons for selling off the divisions of the company except to say that it allowed Safariland to focus on products like bulletproof vests that offer “passive defensive protection.” Warren Kanders Says He Is Getting Out of the Tear Gas Business 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z I navigate so many spaces that are overtly white, passive aggressive, teeming with microaggressions just being in the city of Seattle. Hail the Dark Lioness: A roundtable of black, queer Seattle artists on Zanele Muholi’s photography exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z In most other cases, however, the goddess is no merely passive object for lubricious meditation. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z Movies that treat you as something other than a passive spectator or an obedient, presold “fan.” Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The remainder of the tour was, thankfully, passive sightseeing — with the exception of one final treat for the kids. Camping with the Bedouins in southern Jordan 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Among juvenile delinquents, he noticed a tendency to describe their transgressions in the passive voice, as if their crimes had happened to them rather than because of them. Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z There didn’t seem to be a passive listener in the house. Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’ 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Following The Killer’s actions is a passive activity, which may be why the film is so tedious. David Fincher cast the wrong "Killer" in the Netflix thriller that lacks the auteur's usual edge 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z But what the Stanford researchers gathered from the collected data does suggest that most parents’ instinct to limit both social media and passive media for tweens and young teenagers is sound. Motherlode Blog: A survey of 8- to 12-year-old girls suggests more online media use means less happiness. 2012-01-27T20:05:26Z When the men are in view, Mr. Wheeldon’s women lose all independence of spirit, becoming clinging or passive but not seriously coherent. Dance Review: A Big House, Big Names, New Twists 2011-05-25T22:42:28Z That type of conversation encourages critical thinking in place of passive viewing. 8 Ways to Help Cure Your Teen's Screen Addiction 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The novelist lays out his arthritic hand, like a passive invalid, on the couch. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Remaining passive while Drunk Man encroached upon both of you didn’t seem to be an option. Perspective | Ask Amy: Irish dancing leads to an uncomfortable jig 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The language for the verdict was passive and ungainly — a sentence that has to tie itself into knots in order to bear such moral contortions. When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Like the passive, youthful bodies that fascinate characters in his earlier novels, the GIFs are meant to be regarded with a sensual, gut-level appreciation. How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The use of the passive, and the pauses of the caesurae, deflect the emotional crisis. Poem of the week: Love-Letter-Burning by Daniel Hall 2013-02-04T10:19:21Z Corrupt but passive, he evinces none of the go-getter energy of Wall Street tykes on the make. Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 2: Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis 2012-05-25T18:05:46Z The overall sense is that, with conditions set, incitement is an easy, even passive process — and that Amir’s murder of Rabin is not only a tragedy, but also a cautionary tale. ‘Incitement’ Review: A Tense, Angry Reckoning With an Assassination 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Echoing a complaint frequently heard within the Beltway, Mr. Panetta also laments what he regards as the president’s sometimes passive or disengaged approach to governing. ‘Worthy Fights,’ by Leon E. Panetta 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z They don’t put the “passive” with “aggressive” for nothing. Social Q’s: The Venting Process 2014-05-08T22:13:35Z My husband is so passive he will put up with almost anything to avoid conflict. Carolyn Hax: Woman wants passive-submissive husband to step up 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z But Shillinglaw said the process was still too complex because watching in 3D requires special glasses – either "passive" or "active", depending on the screen. BBC shelves 3D after 'disappointing' takeup by viewers 2013-07-05T15:43:46Z It’s not necessarily that attention spans are shorter, he said, it’s that kids raised on video games are not as accustomed to more passive entertainment experiences. ‘Country Bear Jamboree’ at Walt Disney World 2012-10-20T01:34:03Z Neither is passive or dull, but both will become better as they are put to the use for which they were intended. Beautiful south 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z Could you talk about the challenges — or perhaps the appeal — of structuring a narrative around what some people would call a passive protagonist? ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Julia Leigh on a Modern-Day 'Sleeping Beauty' 2011-05-15T20:39:05Z “Many people think that those two words are incompatible, but I am here to prove you wrong. I am not oppressed. I am not passive, and I am certainly not caged.” ‘I Am Here to Prove You Wrong’ 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z In support, Hedges is appropriately passive with both his mother and Susan, but he does manage to exhibit a little childish glee when Malcolm encourages Frances to see what surprising thing Mme. Michelle Pfeiffer brings sly elegance to the peculiar but charming "French Exit" 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s also important to remember how many different forms of listening there are: passive and active, aural and physical, concerned and unconcerned. Hip-Hop’s Year of Dangerous Living Put the Accused on the Charts 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Instead, the loss would go into a suspense account and be usable only when the investor sells out or has taxable income from other passive sources. Buying Buildings For Cash 2011-01-26T23:00:00Z “Women were supposed to be more passive and more polite,” she said. She’s Making History in Opera. Can She Help Ensure Its Future? 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z There would be fewer passive tenses in the book and way fewer adjectives. Take the long view: Chile revisited 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z When this colonization is complete, consumers will be passive, estranged from their own skills, and disengaged from one another. The Fight for the Right to Drive 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z It was interesting to that Mortenson and Frey both talk about their lies in the same passive voice -- “mistakes were made.” Mary Karr calls liars on their lies and discusses 'The Art of Memoir' 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Hardy plays Forrest as a kind of taciturn patriarch, all grunts and sighs and very few words, someone who is passive in all respects apart from one – his capacity for brutal vengeance. Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z This does not mean that the women are passive or innocent victims. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The downside is that watching movies is essentially passive.
Review: Grease and a Sing-a-long: They Go Together... 2010-07-16T23:55:00Z One of the joys of the show is watching her in any situation: her reactions, how she calmly puts up with continual passive aggression. Echoes of that "Ted Lasso" Midwest niceness in "Somebody Somewhere" 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Above all else, it was my passive state that I grappled with the most. I lost the use of my most important kitchen tool: My hand. The only way forward was to keep cooking. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z They were not detached physicists or passive observers. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z She is afraid of being infected by the “virus” that is Hayley’s impulsive and passive way of living. This Week in Fiction: Rivka Galchen Discusses Her Story “How Can I Help?” 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z No wonder the two passive heroines find regular moments for some sisterly bonding across the centuries. Dance Review: John Neumeier Makes a Feminist Point 2010-05-26T21:24:00Z Dismantling racism in the United States will require more than just passive hope. Are today’s white kids less racist than their grandparents? 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z They’re part of a larger rant against a society that chooses “ease over quality,” and that is rendered passive by the fusion of entertainment and technology. Review: The Authoritarian Populism of “Incredibles 2” 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z To find oneself is an act of self-invention; to find oneself doing something suggests the passive and aimless opposite of self-invention. An Expansive New Book From Amanda Gorman, Celebrity Poet and Inaugural Star 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Arndt brings a receptive dignity to Alex, an obdurately passive but resistant being who finds himself more open to being moved than he ever anticipated. Review: ‘Heisenberg,’ With Mary-Louise Parker, Mines the Extraordinary in the Commonplace 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z No wonder so many girls learn to become passive aggressive when outbursts of female anger are judged as crazy. Beyond "girl gone mad melodrama" — reframing female anger in psychological thrillers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The GR’s means were bizarre like performance art–the symbolic smoking, the passive aggression, the final Loved Ones stunt that led to the final, chaotic images of actual bodies mixed in among replicas. Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Unlike Larry Gopnik in “A Serious Man,” he is not merely the innocent, passive victim of cosmic, domestic and professional malpractice. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z In this way, audience members become passive participants in the piece, conducting the music simply by moving through it and listening from wherever they are. Caught between silence and clamor, these musicians find connection in birdsong 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z But this is not a poem about the virtue of being passive. Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z It is Roth's most mild-mannered role in years; did he think Archie was too passive? Tim Roth: who's the daddy? 2012-05-20T19:00:12Z “It was not passive,” she said, describing nonviolence. Perspective | The brutal video of George Floyd’s death can galvanize a nation. If we stop scrolling. 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z “Wake up, women! Don’t be passive! Sign the petition!” Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Participants received texts five times a day for two weeks, asking about their passive Facebook use since the previous message, and how they were feeling in that moment. The age of envy: how to be happy when everyone else's life looks perfect 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z But for someone who apparently brought a new audience to Jewish music through his performances, as depicted here Shlomo seems an awfully passive figure, always on the wrong side of somebody’s anger or disappointment. Theater Review: ‘Soul Doctor,’ a Musical About Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach 2013-08-16T02:00:40Z And I was not a passive or reluctant participant in this event. Barbara Ehrenreich: My search for truth as a non-believer 2014-04-12T12:15:00Z But if you just try to throw that on the screen in the passive medium, it’s not going to work. Can ‘The Last of Us’ Unlock a Gaming Gold Mine for TV? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Lost in Communication Craziness: You accuse your relatives of passive aggression, but what you demonstrate seems more passive-aggressive on your part than theirs. Ask Amy: Awkward family business leads to passive aggression 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Dismissals of passive contemplation are often parroted in news releases from museums anxious to appear more inclusive by showing relational art. This Jewish Museum Is Giving Away Art. You Get What You Pay For. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Hilariously henpecked by his wife—their constant squabbles are the inverse of Carlos and the Queen’s camp romance—the dictator is almost entirely passive, an old man losing his grip on power. A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z His fighting back against this diktat helps make the character more than just a passive interrogator. Netflix’s 'Mindhunter' Is the Perfect Crime Drama for Our Times 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Your tenuous, vagabond childhood with an alcoholic, Don Quixote of a father; and a homeless, Dumpster-diving mother who was so passive she barely glanced at her children, let alone raised them. Nicole & Co: Jeannette Walls — ‘Dysfunctional families are what I know’ 2013-06-20T00:00:07Z In both cases, the passive observer becomes the active protagonist. Review | Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman deliver a silly, fun pastiche of hard-boiled crime fiction 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Instead she seems engaged in a kind of passive resistance, defying all expectations of women who enter the realm of rock genius. The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Apparently people don't make things anymore, we just consume, like the passive foolish consumers we are, worshipping at our altars of mass consumerism. What is Rule 34, you ask. Let Charles Stross explain 2011-08-11T11:25:12Z But more than any other kind of racism, passive aggressive racism is often swept under the rug because it's not loud and belligerent. How racism found my son on Fortnite 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z “They did some licensing here and there, but they seemed passive,” Ms. Lee said. From Icon to Lifestyle, the Marketing of Bruce Lee 2009-12-12T08:51:00Z We are so good at lying to ourselves, at lapsing into passive acceptance, that mere transparency of meaning is insufficient. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z Now, my pleasure in Christie is entirely passive. Buying books is fun, with a glass in your hand 2010-10-01T23:08:00Z But in the end, the best approaches may be the most passive. The End of Gaydar 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Sure, Mauricio is meant to be someone privileged who lived in a bubble, protected from the rest of society, but Driver makes him passive, not curious when the world opened up to him. The worst film performances of 2021 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z “Nukular is macho and athletic/While nuclear is feminine, weak and far too gentle/Nuclear is passive and pathetic” he argued in cheerful speech-song while plucking the bass. 2010-01-15T04:21:00Z It rips up that social contract, suggesting that spectatorship might not always be innocent or passive or nice. In This Play About Race, ‘People Need to Be Uncomfortable’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z There you will find the restorative whirr of film projectors and the passive diversions of old-fashioned cinema. Art Review: The Magic of Movies, Born From a Single Snapshot 2011-08-18T22:24:34Z There’s no such thing as good guys who are passive bystanders. Louis C.K. and Hollywood’s Canon of Creeps 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z But his novel is tenderly protective of its passive hero and presents him as helplessly sinned against. Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z At first, the wife thought that she was frigid, but she has since realized that she does want sex—badly—just not with her nice, passive husband. Esther Perel Lets Us Listen In on Couples’ Secrets 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Silent, atmospheric, these images attest to the hypnotic pull that mothers can exert on daughters, portraying their subject as both powerful and passive. A ‘Nasty Woman’ of Contemporary Art Fearlessly Renders the Body 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Jean Fan, a high school senior in San Mateo, Calif., is an editor for UnCollege, where she hopes to help inspire students to evolve “from passive to active learners.” Saying No to College 2012-11-30T22:03:33Z It was there that I found by far the largest and most passive cuttlefish I have ever seen hiding in the kelp. Scuba diving trips around the world: readers’ tips 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Her passive nature is meant to convey her scheming to extricate herself from an uncomfortable situation and her expressions suggest the high-wire act that she must perform. Try to keep up with "Miss Bala": Gina Rodriguez stars in this entertaining if bumpy ride 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z It does drive them to become more interested in similar passive — movies are, after all, passive — entertainment in the same genre. Will Dungeons & Dragons Be the next Hobbit? 2012-12-12T13:00:23Z The passive approach works with friendships in which the bonds are tenuous, said Jeff Newelt, a social media consultant in Manhattan. It?s Not Me, It?s You: How to End a Friendship 2012-01-28T11:00:06Z The omission of women from the classical canon is often presumed to be a passive function of absence, as though these Women Who Compose Music simply never existed. Women composers take the spotlight — and the National Cathedral bell tower — at WoCo Fest 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Clicking on friends' passive posts puts a program on one's computer that plays back the song. Music, media firms pin hopes on new Facebook ties 2011-09-22T22:19:15Z Teachers push students to engage actively with the material, but it’s easy to be passive, to absorb the information and check off the box. Learn By Painting 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z But she suggests you think of yourself as the servant -- a passive, and therefore not responsible, pair of hands -- while cultivating an inconspicuous disposition. Perspective | Miss Manners: Mom tries to dissuade child from interrupting 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Is this some sort of passive aggressive message? Novels about the Internet can still be compelling 2013-01-19T23:00:00Z And the process of listening to music has also changed: It's often a passive pastime, driven by things such as algorithm-driven auto-playing playlists. The loudmouth at the concert: Why can’t people stop talking and listen to the music? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Several items depicted, whole or in part, on Locke’s trophies, were once active or passive players in power games, as diplomatic persuaders, ideological enforcers, or in the case of an eighth-century B.C. The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Swift’s letter essentially puts Shamrock in the same position as Carlyle: a moneyed investor, usually accustomed to passive involvement, being thrust into a negative spotlight by one of the most famous people in the world. Taylor Swift Denounces Scooter Braun as Her Catalog Is Sold Again 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z I am outraged that your company chose to profit through the appropriation of my image, without my permission, consent or even passive acceptance. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Leggo my Lego 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z An essentially tender and passive man, Ezzedine finds sustenance in his Islamic faith as his dignity is stripped away. A Rich, Old-Fashioned Spy Thriller Set in Elizabethan England 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Where passive voices plod one after the other, the writer should vary sentence structure and where the passive results in awkward flow, use sentence structure to link information sensibly for the reader’s sake. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z After breaking up with her boyfriend, she busts his nose and nearly overdoses on Ambien and doughnuts in a passive fury. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The political theorist Iris Marion Young wrote that the pregnant body undermines Cartesian dualism, which constructed the male body as rational, ordered and active, and the female body as irrational, unruly and passive. Baby love: how pop stars embraced pregnancy 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The sequel employs three narrators, most notably, Aunt Lydia, a matriarchal tyrant who trains women to be obedient and passive handmaids. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share the 2019 Booker Prize 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z I believe strongly that in live performance you’re not passive — taking people’s access to their phone heightens their experience. Hannah Gadsby on Autism and the Risk of Failing After ‘Nanette’ 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Williams, one of the bravest and smartest actresses working in movies today, portrays a young woman who is indecisive and confused, but never passive. Movie Review: ‘Take This Waltz,’ Directed by Sarah Polley 2012-06-28T22:36:20Z He allowed our marriage to continue in a passive way but refused to participate. Seduced, Then Scorned, by My Work Wife 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Expertly upping the ante in passive aggression, one of his colleagues responds, “You’re so good at character roles.” Theater Review: ‘We Are Proud to Present a Presentation,’ at Soho Rep 2012-11-16T23:47:40Z Her eyes took in the world with passive depth and the occasional flash of gentle humor. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z The next title card uses the passive construction of the same verb to say “A new generation is inheriting the world.” What We Learned From the Japanese Captions on the New 'Star Wars' Trailer 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z A spokesman for the show explained that Rudin maintains “a small investment position” that is “passive” and was made before the play’s Broadway start in late 2018. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ sets an Oct. 5 Broadway return, with original star Jeff Daniels and a new producer replacing Scott Rudin 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z When she staggers into the outside world, she meets an army of passive observers who film her on their phones while she's tracked by "hunters" in terrifying masks. TV highlights 18/02/2013 2013-02-18T07:00:02Z If you wanted to be less passive, you might consider writing her a letter, asking to meet. I slept with my best friend's ex. Now I'm terrified of confrontation 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Harris describes writing as an almost passive process, something that happens to him rather than something he does. Hannibal Lecter’s Creator Cooks Up Something New (No Fava Beans or Chianti) 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z That book describes a woman who is passive, illness-plagued and spooked. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Similarly, many Americans felt empowered when they were actively involved in Obama’s candidacy—and then returned to being passive consumers of politics. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z This dispersal of power, he goes on, is magnified by “the emergence of a volatile phenomenon: the worldwide political awakening of populations until recently politically passive or repressed.” Books of The Times: ?Strategic Vision,? by Zbigniew Brzezinski 2012-01-29T19:49:59Z |
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