Sentence examples for passive anger from inspiring English sources

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This is especially common among friends who don't want to upset each other; they may not want to confront you about something that you said or did, so they take out their passive anger on you by being mean instead of openly talking about their feelings.

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Some people will inundate you with negativity, passive aggression, anger, or jealousy, but none of this matters, because, as Dr. Seuss said, "Those that matter don't mind, and those that mind don't matter".

Young people today also hate their parents, but it's a buried, passive-aggressive anger.

Affirmation of a passive aggressive child's anger is powerful, because the child has been working diligently, through her behaviors, to avoid expressing anger directly.

This is the opposite of what happens with anger, where aggressive, passive, or passive-aggressive communications puts others at odds with you.

Unlike the gangster rappers, whose unhappiness takes more traditional form in machismo and homophobia, there is something passive about Manson's anger, something detached.

Romney's group mapped "distances" between words, using their data on word similarities plotted against criteria of good versus bad feelings and active versus passive feelings; for instance, anger would tend toward an active, bad feeling and boredom toward a passive, bad feeling.

If you show your anger, the passive aggressive person will be less cooperative, stop communicating and thus will confirm that you are his enemy, so becoming more hostile and resentful, even to the point of planning his revenge.

Keep in mind that the idea of "fighting fair" is mostly an oxymoron in a relationship, like "jumbo shrimp" or "military intelligence".[5] A fight usually begins on uneven or unfair ground for both parties, so even if it does escalate to very angry levels, it's important to work towards forgiveness rather than holding a grudge or being passive aggressive about your anger.

Instead, they passive-aggressively channeled their anger in so many different directions it became hard to fixate on what to be angry at any given moment.

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