Sentence examples for it's passivity from inspiring English sources

In pops the father of yet another tenant, a sweet-natured elderly man (Richard Masur) and if anything is sure to set off Olive it's passivity and sweetness.

"It is passivity that dulls feeling," she writes.

That's passivity in action.

The best we can hope for from police, it seems, is passivity.

In fact, it's Jodie Foster's passivity, as Keitel murmurs and slithers his bejeweled hands with their cocaine-scooping pinkie-nails around her back and hair, that makes the scene so queasy.

"To simply keep silent isn't courtesy; it's dangerous passivity".

It's that passivity that leads parents to pull plugs and begin ranting about Legos and building blocks and books and costumes and just go do something real, already!

It's this passivity that sets Mr. Garrel apart from his two more famous contemporaries, Jean Eustache ("The Mother and the Whore") and Maurice Pialat ("À Nos Amours"), whose similar attempts to seize a sloppy, unmediated reality were energized by compulsive intellectualizing (Eustache) and an explosive temperament (Pialat).

SW: As a rabbi, it would have to be passivity and not asking questions.

That was passivity and myopia, and it was wrong.

"The real blame is passivity: the U.S. did not want to engage, and so it stayed on the sidelines".