Sentence examples for intellectual passivity from inspiring English sources

The question now is: What side are they on in the current global war against terrorism?" Donald Rumsfeld's man decried intellectual passivity: "We'll continue to confront terrorism on the military battlefield, but... winning the war requires us to help change the way people think.

Can such selves retain the capacities of critical rationality required for the exercise of liberal democracy, or will our networked selves increasingly be characterized by political and intellectual passivity, hampered in self-governance by "shorter attention spans and less capacity to engage with critical argument" (2010, 114)?

The study also found that boys were instructed to look for answers in the back of their guide, something that "fosters intellectual dependence and passivity", whereas girls were encouraged to do original research.

Put otherwise, Debord is pointing to the pose of intellectual and physical passivity we adopt when we entertain a vision of total social unity that can be abstracted in a theoretical formula, a political slogan, a product or a picture.

Passivity is corrosive to the soul.

Does the passive voice underscore the person's passivity?

It is thus against the backdrop of this tension between passivity and activity that we can most productively situate epigenetics' intellectual program of molecularizing the environment in digital terms thus making its impact on living beings measurable, archivable and comparable.

I'd had enough of childish, angry, disenfranchised academic passivity – and still resent the utter failure of public intellectuals to resist and critique the laughably short Browne review the moment it drew breath.

Indulging the sense of intellectual and political superiority that comes from an exquisite acknowledgment of privilege — and the passivity that results — can be its own form of privilege.

He inspired a generation of intellectuals in religion (James Cone, Mike Dyson), philosophy (Cornel West) and feminist theory (bell hooks) to rage against black passivity and complicity with racism".

ENJOYMENT ACTIVITIES: Expunge passivity.