Sentence examples for growing passivity from inspiring English sources

Between Chirac's growing passivity and the haplessness of Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, French policy diminished to a series of gestures.

Most of the humor is supplied not by Shanté or Keith -- her put-together peppiness and his nice-guy passivity grow tired pretty quickly -- but by their friends.

Their desultory attempts to change course are dampened by a pervasive melancholy that no one seems capable of dispelling — least of all our easygoing protagonist, whose passivity grows increasingly wearisome with every passing scene.

But three factors are undermining religious freedom: the silence and passivity of the majority, growing radicalization, and the weakness of the government at every level.

But I'd argue it is the only route through our growing culture wars and the political passivity eating its way through our political systems.

But pressure for political and economic change is growing and the long-neglected have-nots appear unwilling to return to silence and passivity.

As American culture began worrying less about women's purity and more about their growing political and economic power, fictions responded by imagining idealised female presidents in terms of passivity and pacifism.

Western passivity has backfired and accelerated all that Washington fears: chaos, regional instability, sectarianism and growing influence of Islamic militants.

To Mr. Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, the city has become shorthand for the growing threat to the United States from Islamist militants — and what Romney advisers call the Obama administration's "passivity" in the face of the menace.

This is riveting stuff; no less so is her account of growing up in the newly permissive 60s, a period she describes with a Jean Rhysensee sense of her utter passivity in a series of more or less abusive relationships.

It's easy to fault the White House for passivity and confusion, but no one has come up with a plausible policy in the face of the Middle East's day-to-day upheavals, its shifting alliances and growing fissures.