unpassive

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1. Not passive.

   What is different, as we have attempted to show, is just how unpassive and unfetishized she is by the camera.

   2004, Susan Hayward, Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign, page 95

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   […] he sees Kafka's novels as a plea for moral passivity—which is to miss, among other things, Kafka's occasional strand of subterranean rebelliousness and his quite unpassive humor.

   1951, Partisan Review, volume 18, page 128