Thirty years of sleeping tablets have created passivity, the idea that it is out of your control.
She said that a lack of standards had helped to create "passivity" among shelter users, and that the new goal was to "manage this in a way that people change their behavior".
Various state officials moved into a vacuum that had been created by SEC passivity under former chairman Harvey Pitt as the stock market crashed and accounting scandals engulfed some large corporations.
Petry's The Street (1946) adopted Wright's pitiless assessment of the power of environment in the lives of black urban dwellers, but, unlike Wright, whose female characters generally exemplify demoralization and passivity, Petry created a female protagonist who fights back.
The routines on the ward promoted patient passivity, and created an environment that suited the healthcare professionals' agency and purposes more than those of the patients.
Marshaling paternal abuse and maternal passivity into painterly, dialogue-free scenes of domestic isolation, the filmmaker creates an aesthetic of dysfunction that's as beautiful as it is disturbing.
The United States could also help professionalize the military, as its passivity and ineptitude created the vacuum the paramilitaries are filling.
The next president will "have to clean up this mess, created by all of this passivity over the last eight years," the majority leader remarked.
"I think an AUMF... that ties the president's hands behind his back is not something I would want to do to a new president who's going to have to clean up this mess, created by all of this passivity over the last eight years".
Indeed, there is something of Marcello Mastroianni in Moravia's protagonists: they present an endless series of self-loathing, conflicted men who aspire to make art or take some form of decisive action, but who instead are thwarted and trapped by their own lack of nerve; often, they analyze their own failings with great lucidity, creating elaborate psychological monuments to their own passivity.
