We no longer are in the position evoked by Auden, passively awaiting a connection with the outside world through the postman.

I will not passively await Her furious onset!

Milo Morai had not, in something less than two centuries, built his Confederation by passively awaiting attacks.

Allan seemed equally determined not to passively await his fate.

Muslims should not passively await the arrival of a messiah who would govern perfectly, he taught.

He tried to anticipate ET responses, to get a jump on competitors who were more passively awaiting the next years-long interstellar messaging cycle.

Instead you seem to be passively awaiting our explanation.

Her hands descended to support her on the floor, and she leaned forward, face to the pallet, passively awaiting his pleasure.

This was quite the most realistic of his sleep adventures, thought Tarzan, as he passively awaited the next amusing incident.

A listener, he stressed, must approach music with intelligence, not passively await entertainment, and its meanings are not to be found in programs or stories.