If you tried to do that you could not remain passive long.

Meanwhile I remain passive-for which Wagner will thank me later on.

Neither did the suspicions against him remain passive; they became active.

Yet the people whose emotions are entrained do not remain passive.

Let me go, my own dear mother, for I cannot remain passive here.

I can remain passive, and starve; or I can devour my ship, and drown.

The subject should be warned not to try to help but to remain passive.

Nothing but submit and remain passive while it crushes me.

Children, even, do not remain passive in this fearful conflict.

You don't know what it cost me to remain passive.

I am defeated; I must remain passive; like a whipped child I am driven away.

I will remain passive now while you control it.

But my nature would not permit me at such a crisis to remain passive long.

Without proper conditioning, the driver could not be trusted to remain passive while I slept.

Christian drew away from the hearth, unable to remain passive with that dread upon him.

It is better that you remain passive, Admiral Bluewater.