Whatever your thoughts on the larger questions, seems like this kind of reliance on vague passive-voice assertions by nobody in particular would be troubling. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I've actually taken to doing global searches on words ending and "ly" and passive-voice words like "was," "were" and "had," looking to see if there's any way to elminate them and make the sentences where they appear more actrive and vivid. ❋ Ewillett (2008)
My daughter had some teeth-gritting moments in her freshman English class in college, in which all of her passive-voice verbs were marked off. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I know I'm not the first blogger to use that headline, but that's all I could come up with when I saw this headline from the AP: Documents contradict Gonzales 'testimonyThat's a passive-voice way of saying that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he testified earlier this week. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Since AOL is due to become the world's biggest music company after the Time Warner purchase, this wouldn't do; so, in the ominous passive-voice confirmation of an AOL spokes-person, the program "was taken down." ❋ Unknown (2008)
The first messages arrived Saturday with subject lines such as "Armenian Genocide Plagues Ankara 90 Years On," "Multi-Kulturell = Multi-Kriminell" and "Dresden Bombing Is to Be Regretted Enormously," the latter being a classic example of the passive-voice sentence that sounds as mellifluous in German as it sounds ridiculous in English. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Actually, a real apology, and not a passive-voice CYA non-apology, would be a good start. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Huckabee issues fake passive-voice CYA apology to ... ❋ Unknown (2007)
Huckabee issues fake passive-voice CYA apology to dead rape victims' families by on ❋ Unknown (2007)
Sounds a lot like "Mistakes were made," the classic passive-voice dodge by Drunky McStagger. ❋ Sinfonian (2007)
Are you somehow unaware of the message of contempt a phrase like “bleatings of passive-voice non-entities” sends to readers? ❋ Unknown (2004)
Too bad you began it with a cludding, belligerant, insulting phrase like “the bleatings of passive-voice non-entities.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
Even an acknowledgement that “mistakes were made”–a notorious passive-voice, bureaucratic quasi-evasion of responsibility–would be music to our ears just aboutnow. ❋ Unknown (2004)
By my count, 19 of these privileges consist of the bleatings of passive-voice non-entities. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I would like to note, however, in my defense, that my phrase “the bleatings of passive-voice non-entities” was not meant as an insult to you; it was solely meant as an expression of my contempt for the passive voice which I regard as a source of much mischief. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I removed some really awful passive-voice stuff from my narrative, and I cleaned up some sections that have bothered me for months. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Some have scribbled their way to homes in the Caribbean, leaving a trail of pulsing adverbs, wooden characters, and vile passive-voice constructions behind them. ❋ Scribner (2000)
Giannoulias 'camp today called Kirk's presser full of "hollow apologies and passive-voice blame-shifting." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Passive Voice: [Mistakes] were made.
[Actual] Meaning: We [completely fucked] up. ❋ Nemo Mentisson (2009)
he is dumb-good
he [will] be dumb-bad [b/c] its passive voice ❋ Wouldn't U Like To Know (2005)
