passivity

How To Use passivity In A Sentence

• It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within.
• School violence is being assimilated into the broader sense of fatalism and passivity about the perpetration of violence in our nation and in our world.
• These lines play with the notion of human passivity.
• In becoming that figure, he also brought out the essential weakness of official Unionism, its demoralised passivity, its sentimental traditionalism, its dearth of ideas, its hangdog lack of creative energy.
• In such circumstances, cynicism, passivity and a sense of fatalism can influence public attitudes.
• Once again, this stance expresses political passivity, this time dressed up in the garb of militant syndicalism.
• Allison also accuses the Bush administration of "dumbfounding" passivity in response to North Korea's weapons program, which experts identified as "a greater potential threat than Iraq" in the days after 9/11. EVERY REASON TO BE AFRAID
• Once again, this stance expresses political passivity, this time dressed up in the garb of militant syndicalism.
• The passivity involved here is that of letting oneself be affected by all that is negative, by injustice and death.
• Do Thou that wast born of the Virgin, drown in the depth of impassivity the triformity of my soul -- those mighty strongholds, I implore Thee, that in the mortification of flesh as on a tymbal I may melodize a triumphant hymn unto Thee. The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints