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inactive

(ĭn-ăk′tĭv)
adj.
1. Not active or tending to be active: inactive students at risk for gaining weight.
2. Chemistry Not readily participating in chemical reactions; inert.
3. Medicine Marked by the absence or lessening of disease activity.
in·ac′tive·ly adv.
in′ac·tiv′i·ty, in·ac′tive·ness n.
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This visual and auditory contrast triggers an eerie feeling in the viewers, forced to come to terms with this contradictory depiction and contrasting emotional registers; furthermore, we can read in the depiction of these white "Australians-at-their-leisure" a direct criticism of the many sympathetic whites who inactively observed the abuses of Aboriginal children, men, and women, in order not to shake their economic, social, cultural, and racial privileges.
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They were opposed to their wives' new-found independence and would much have preferred them to be inactively resigned.
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