It is difficult to understand why policy on this issue is so passive.
"But also, the fact that the princess is so passive in everything she's trying to endure is just not right in the 21st century".
Note that in the indirect scenario, the dumper is so passive as to make the dumpee actually come out and say that the relationship is ending — this is a big no-no, according to Manning and Amare's research.
It's an unusual dystopian fiction in which a protagonist is so passive in his acceptance of his fate, but Simón exhibits virtually no curiosity about such decisions or who the anonymous authorities that administer them might be.
Unfortunately, as written, her character is so passive (she looks on, mute and immobile, as one of her best friends is kicked to death by Billy's thugs) that it is hard to maintain sympathy for her as the movie's moral center.
While steering well clear of that accusation, Mayor McKelvey contends that "ivory tower" reformers have made a grave mistake in claiming that the public is so passive and cynical about local politicians that it accepts ties between politics and the underworld as inevitable.
