Significats de passive spectator en anglès

In the present affair I am only a passive spectator.

But it's not so easy to be a passive spectator of these topsy-turvy conditions.

I would have to be a passive spectator -somethingthat sat ill with my nature.

This afternoon I was the not altogether passive spectator of a curious scene in natural history.

For Sandy was not merely a passive spectator of his mother's abuse but was shamefully complicit.

Hitherto I had been little more than a passive spectator of the events of our expedition.

Isidore, in fact, had not budged, had remained, till that moment, an eager, but passive spectator.

While the events recorded in the last chapter were passing Washington was by no means a passive spectator.

Suddenly, however, as the comedy turned swiftly to black tragedy, this passive spectator leaped into quick strenuous life.

I remained a passive spectator of the combat, until the second Moroccan came to the aid of his compatriot.

He was not about to be a passive spectator while the most awesome threat in centuries decimated the race of Man.

Sitting in the corner of the cab she seemed to be an entirely passive spectator of events that were being played before her.

He does not remain a passive spectator in the background, but comes as prominently to the front as is compatible with due courtesy.

The Marquis of Buckingham still continued a passive spectator of public events, and the correspondence of this period possesses consequently little political interest.

The elder, Assur-belkala,*** had neither sufficient energy nor resources to resume the offensive, and remained a passive spectator of the revolutions which distracted Babylon.

Passive spectators of danger, they were forced to await its terrible approach.