1.   Popular culture instead reproduced essentially passive individuals as labour power for monopoly capitalism.

2.   The people are essentially passive, reliant on Oa, the principle of fecundity.

3.   And Ms. Delpy has a decorative, essentially passive role.

4.   And the interactive technology of the Internet is swifter, with greater permutations than the essentially passive one-way transmission of television.

5.   In an essentially passive role, Moffat registers a touching quality of imperiousness brought to its knees.