passiveness

How To Use passiveness In A Sentence

• The people are returned to passiveness, inertness,[Sentencedict] and unconsciousness; the legislator enters into omnipotence.
• One result of voter passiveness Nov. 5 was the return to office of two leaders with highly advertised ethical problems.
• We will wait for another nuclear explosion or Mandir-Masjid dispute to shake us out of our passiveness.
• Zoe, when she found she could no longer have all the conversation to herself, stretched herself on the sofa, where she appeared to be busily employed in cutting the leaves of her new book, but from time to time, she contrived to throw such glances upon poor Everhard as perfectly bewildered him, and contributed not a little to reduce him to that state of passiveness which is the perfection of a good listener; Gifford thought he had never met with such a good one before! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
• As one acquaintance remarked, Pater cultivated ‘a wise, grave passiveness, a gentle susceptibility, a kind of soft impressionability… I never remember a single unkind criticism or remark ’.
• In an environment where any passiveness will be rewarded with a thunderous blow to the body from an equally vicious opponent, such application is not just necessary, but beneficial.
• The religious right now feels emboldened by the impassiveness of secular parties and the state: no one who threatened to kill Taseer and other like-minded politicians has been arrested.
• His overaggressiveness on defense often landed him in foul trouble, and his passiveness on offense often caused him to be a nonfactor.
• The passiveness and peace of a matriarchy with the passion and drive and energy of a patriarchy is the best blend, and will ultimately create a society that can stand against anything.
• I think it is never good to discourage kids from cutting from the standpoint that it is a good sign of offensive aggressiveness, which I always prefer to offensive passiveness.