Significados de wholly passive en inglés

But in relation to its environment, life is never wholly constructive, as it is never wholly passive.

It is a life that would seem to have been wholly passive-andto be passive is not good for all.

But in a criminal court the wholly passive ideal of tolerance must give place to a sterner, loftier ideal, that of justice.

Her feelings, in the beginning a mere blissful certainty that God was Love and she was God's, ceased to be wholly passive.

Still, the interest she displayed was of a wholly passive kind; she took no part herself in this building up of the past.

It was a risk to take, but he could be carried on a litter by careful men, and remain wholly passive during the removal.

He held her pressed to him, and she lay against his breast trembling but wholly passive, overcome by an inexplicable longing to hide, to hide.