Now Marina was a romantic; she had not yet fallen into that passive state of mind which accepts that one should find a corner to live, anywhere, and then arrange one's whole life around it.

Watching TV is a passive activity.

Watching television changes the role of the fans by making their participation more passive and distant.

67% of those who never smoked said they worried about the health effects of passive smoking.

In the greatest of all works of art everything had been realized, I could give nothing, and my restless mind tired of passive contemplation.