For the rest of the rainy season Brian passively and helplessly absorbs the plunps' moisture while his thoughts turn inward and violently self-destructive.

But even he knows that passively absorbing a potentially humiliating cross-examination is counterintuitive; it makes sense only if you accept the law - on faith.

He held her effortlessly, passively absorbing her wild blows, using his weight to still her frantic movements.

He was content for some time to wander the city, passively absorbing whatever the datastore saw fit to tell him about what he saw.

Mr. Campus's improvisatory play with those dynamics is not terribly exciting, but it's not unpleasant to take a load off your feet and passively absorb the scrolling scenery.

Criticisms of lecture based learning include that students get much less interaction with both tutor and colleagues - they passively absorb information in lectures rather than questioning and searching out answers.

Meanwhile, Americans passively absorb the $50 billion trade deficit the wait costs.

Rather than passively absorbing the latest word from abroad, the intelligenty selected those ideas which helped them to address their own problems.

The details sometimes get lost in a wordy haze, but what's clear is that children don't learn by passively absorbing inert bits of knowledge.

Living root cells passively absorb water in the absence of transpiration pull via osmosis creating root pressure.