She assigned a passive role to herself, with the public being the force which would act on her.

The crowd, then, takes on a much more passive role.

All night long he had been cast in the passive role of the one who listened.

Richard seems to allow himself to be ordered into a passive role.

In this cultural development, the local inhabitants had only a passive role.

Here and elsewhere, however, architecture does not have to play a passive role.

This time, the man will be taking the passive role.

He had performed here many times in the past and the passive role was hard to take.

She took on a more passive role in recent years as senior editor.

Some older men may have at times preferred the passive role.