Sentence examples for alarmingly passive from inspiring English sources

They've been alarmingly passive so far as Germany dominate possession.

Passive aggression or passiveness.

It turned the clock back to the restrictive folderol of La Belle Époque, and evoked alarmingly regressive models of femaleness: women as passive sex objects, displayers of their men's wealth and status — women who needed to be helped into cabs, who required huge trunks in order to travel with their finery, and maids to help them dress.

Alarmingly, the Government has largely taken a passive role in managing the bailed out companies.

Even in some developed countries, the awareness of the risks from passive smoking can still be alarmingly low.

Street cops, it appeared, had begun a passive-aggressive job slowdown; arrest rates dropped by fifty per cent even as serious-crime rates rose alarmingly in Over-the-Rhine and other predominantly black neighborhoods.

Her money dwindled alarmingly.

Other characters regress alarmingly.

Sounds alarmingly familiar, eh?

Inequality is alarmingly high.

Financial literacy is alarmingly low.