Sentence examples similar to civil passivity from inspiring English sources
Yet increasing numbers of young blacks, appalled by scenes of African Americans being brutally treated by well-armed white police, were frustrated by what they saw as the passivity of the civil rights movement.
It included a £38 billion ($62 billion) black hole in the defence budget, caused by a "conspiracy of optimism" over ordering new kit among senior officers and civil servants, combined with a passivity bordering on negligence on the part of a succession of ministers.
This is what breeds passivity in civic life.
But President Obama and others can lay the foundation for an angry but civil liberal populism to provide an alternative to passivity and the Tea Party.
In part, this was owing to the influence of popular culture, which, from D. W. Griffith's Dunning School-approved "The Birth of a Nation" to the many Westerns set during Reconstruction, often told the story of the Civil War as one of white heroism and black passivity.
Now I find myself admiring the more sober George C. Marshall and the mature stewardship of Ike (with the exception of his passivity in the face of McCarthy and the civil rights movement).
His son reacts with a pacifism that degrades into anodyne passivity, as he declares the struggles of the civil war best forgotten, and betrays his heritage by retiring to Florida like a car salesman.
Does the passive voice underscore the person's passivity?
His way is something the world has never seen before -- a way of steadfast nonviolence--not passivity, but active confrontation with empire, the kind which leads to his civil disobedience action, his arrest, torture and execution.
ENJOYMENT ACTIVITIES: Expunge passivity.
