"Because passivity makes us feel helpless, and when we're feeling helpless and hopeless, we get depressed".
As he finished his training, Michels, already disenchanted with what he felt was the passivity of traditional therapy, met Stutz, who became his supervisor.
Though the show's dramatic pleasures are ultimately modest, its willingness to portray single womanhood as something beyond a sum of consumer choices or the embodiment of a disabling passivity feels useful and perhaps even necessary, the right kind of counterprogramming to balance the mood of the moment.
Her passivity made Janet feel a little contemptuous.
It is now another apolitical neoliberal project, more interested in selling feel-good passivity than making concrete sociopolitical change.
Faced with situations they feel they can't master, brooders lapse into passivity, paralysis, and isolation.
This risks instilling a general passivity in our children, making them feel as though they're powerless to change their circumstances.
Since his fundamental stance is passivity, Merwin's language can't feel as though it were summoned from too much effort of learning, or from casually gleaned perception or overheard conversation, which would concede the existence of actual other people.
This expectation of women's sexual passivity may affect their ability to decline sex which they feel will be unpleasurable, unfulfilling or simply unwanted [ 15, 18].
Willis plays Paul with a flatness and passivity that feels too inert, even for a character who is bedbound.
Remember that passivity isn't actually doing anyone a favor; it can make you feel unappreciated or overlooked, and it isn't honest with others.
