Unactive

In Paradise Regained, Jesus, who has hitherto lived "private, unactive, calm, contemplative," emerges to be tested by temptation and so made ready for the "great work ... before him set." ❋ Kermode, Frank (2009)

Till then, the idea in the mind of whatever is good is there only, like other ideas, the object of bare unactive speculation; but operates not on the will, nor sets us on work; the reason whereof I shall show by and by. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What association of ideas would ever operate, were that principle here totally unactive. 15 ❋ Unknown (2006)

I.i.97 MENENIUS I'th'midst o'th'body, idle and unactive ❋ DC (2006)

Where birth is respected, unactive, spiritless minds remain in haughty indolence, and dream of nothing but pedigrees and genealogies: the generous and ambitious seek honour and authority, and reputation and favour. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I begin to suspect We shall have an unactive Campaign -- that ❋ Unknown (1963)

Mirth, our Spirits wou'd grow by degrees so frothy and light, that we shou'd not easily bring them to settle again on any thing that was worthy our care: Without something now and then to raise them a little, they wou'd be dull and unactive, but _all_ Relaxation wou'd make them too airy, and of no sort of Use. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Wou'd such unthinking unactive Mortals, subscribe to Societies, or lighten their Purses to establish Premiums, who tho 'they cou'd make themselves and their ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Travellers such as Evelyn, who deplored the English gentry's "solitary and unactive lives in the country," the "haughty and boorish Englishman," and the ❋ Clare Howard (N/A)

Let it be silent and do nothing, forget it self, and plung into that obscure Faith: How secure and safe would it be, though it might seem to it that thus unactive and doing nothing it were undone. ❋ Unknown (1907)

To friends, probably reminding him of being "unactive, which affects me much," he answered: ❋ Edgar Fahs Smith (1891)

Add to this, that every moment passing without repentance adds to the guilt and strength of sin unrepented of; which lies not idle or unactive, but fixes its possession deeper and deeper; the mind, by reflecting upon it with relish and complacency, grows into more intimate unions with it; so that, in effect, by the internal actions and approbations of the will, it is repeated and reacted without any external commission. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

Now death makes a thing utterly useless, because it renders it totally unactive; and in things that are naturally active, that which deprives them of their action, bereaves them of their use. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

For where the heart is engaged, all the actions follow: no part or power of the soul can be unactive when that is stirred; and being once moved itself, it moves all the rest. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

That principle, which lay dormant and unactive before, is then drawn forth into sinful acts and commissions. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

Which shews, that the bare performance is in itself but a weak, unactive thing, and affects nothing but in the virtue of a superior power, which sometimes cooperates with, sometimes deserts the exercise of this duty. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

For the weak, by thinking themselves strong, are induced to venture and proclaim war against that which ruins them: and the strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are thereby rendered as unactive, and consequently as useless, as if they really were so. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

Christ suffered only the exquisiteness and heights of pain, without any of those mitigations which God is pleased to temper and al lay it with as it befalls other men; like a man who drinks only the spirits of a liquor separated and extracted from the dull, unactive body of the liquor itself. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

It does not terminate in notion, or rest in bare, unactive speculation, but from the head it shoots forth into the hand, and sets all the faculties of our nature at work. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

[He’s] very unactic ❋ KNOK6 (2021)