Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we arepatient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains.
“Her personal life and her art were very intertwined: You can’t really separate them,” explains Sophia Jansson. “She mirrored her own a reality onto a fictional reality.” And this is perhaps the nub of the Moomin’s enduring appeal: a combination of adventuresome spirit and philosophy, all of which Jansson derived from close andpatient observation, of human relationships and of the natural world alike.
2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, inRAIL, number972, page35:
In contrast, theWestminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groaning under the weight of bags and baggage and... the ever-patient and long-suffering guards, courteously giving information and advice to the querulous passengers... to the porter the Christmas season means a continuous round of heavy labour, extremely tiring to both nerves and temper, and this fact the public too often seem either to forget or ignore."
To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution,patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.
The slightest effort made thepatient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience forpatients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
The subject of a passive verb is usually apatient.
1982, Paul J. Hopper,Tense-aspect: Between Semantics & Pragmatics,→ISBN:
The number of a first or second person participant is generally marked for both agent andpatient in all aspects.
2004, Paul Kroeger,Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach,→ISBN, page292:
Since we have argued that the absolutive argument in Dyirbal is the grammatical subject of its clause, we must conclude that in the antipassive construction the agent replaces thepatient as grammatical subject.
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and thepatient.
1988, Sarah Waterlow, Sarah Broadie,Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics,→ISBN, page159:
For it seems clear that the subject of change is the changed, i.e. thepatient -- on one proviso. the proviso is that there be an agent or changer.
1994, Larry Cochran, Joan Laub,Becoming an Agent: Patterns and Dynamics for Shaping Your Life,→ISBN:
How does a person change from apatient to an agent in shaping and living a course of life?
1999, Lloyd P. Gerson,Aristotle: Logic and metaphysics,→ISBN, page127:
According to the tradition, when an agent acts on apatient, the change is located in thepatient. If thepatient reacts on the agent, then the agent is apatient in the new relation.
2010, Mohua Banerjee, Anil Seth,Logic and Its Applications: Fourth Indian Conference, ICLA 2011,→ISBN, page 7:
The starting point is that all events involve an agent and apatient. Agents andpatients are modelled as (material or non-material) objects, and can therefore be represented as points in conceptual spaces.
