How To Use Passivism In A Sentence

  • Maybe people weren't ready for it, almost in the same way we're not ready for passivism today. The New Deal and the Great Depression, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • What the conservatives commentators really want in a Justice with respect to these issues is not judicial passivism but judicial activism. Geoffrey R. Stone: Sonia Sotomayor and the Hypocrisy of "Conservative" Critics
  • Pacifism, which literally refers to the making of peace," she wrote, "is often mistakenly understood as passivism. Elise Boulding, matriarch of peace studies movement, dies at 89
  • This is not judicial activism, but judicial passivism. Geoffrey R. Stone: Sonia Sotomayor and the Hypocrisy of "Conservative" Critics
  • When I think of it, and how it compares to the passivism of either "being an optimist" or "being a pessimist," the image that invariably pops into my mind is that of Rosie the Riveter, from the WWII poster. Jeff Biggers: Unblock the Climate Debate: New Book is Required Reading for Climate Change Summit Leaders
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  • It is thoroughly disappointing that the editors of the New York Times continue to allow Kristof to write about China, as this sort of writing will someday be a monument for how Western passivism in the face of the Chinese economy lead to the prolonged tenure of a totalitarian government. Kristof's Monument to Passivism On Tiananmen Sq Aniversary
  • In German Ideology, Marx and Engels point out that occasionality unveils the passivism of subject.
  • Originalism is, in a sense, a variant of "passivism," but it is not institutional passivism. Geoffrey R. Stone: Supreme Imbalance: Of Liberals and Conservatives
  • Although those who have been "martyred" because of their passivism have sometimes become role models for others, it is not the principle ruling the world order, nor is martyrdom "just". Keith Ward, Big Questions in Science and Religion 8: Can Science Provide a Wholly Naturalistic Explanation for Moral and Religious Beliefs?

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