"passive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They support the author's argument that the church was not a passive witness to the Holocaust but an active collaborator in it.
- Veilly was part of the Duchy of Burgundy and enjoyed the status of "passive witness" of the Duchy's rich history.
- But the Islanders remained passive witnesses.
- Uncharacteristically, he was a passive witness only, as if he were viewing some meaningless holographic reconstruction of an event that was of no interest to him.
- At most, he'd have the excitement of being a passive witness as we faced whatever had attacked the settlers... Was that why Cohen sounded so eager?
- All she could do was stand there, a passive witness.
- It is not a passive witness to creation, but is the dynamic conscious activity which constitutes creation.
- The audience isn't condescended to.... We share the excitement of figuring out how things develop and unfold, when so often the movies only need us as passive witnesses.
- She or he is not just a passive witness.
- "It is probable that we have all become passive witnesses, once again, to a barbaric act - this time a barbaric act backed by democracy."
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