Sentence examples for passive feelings from inspiring English sources

Emotions belong to the subclass of passive feelings while desire and will belong to the subclass of active feelings.

Hutcheson's argument supposes that our affections and passions are not under our direct control; they are in large measure passive feelings.

Echoing Lotze's distinction between passive and active feelings, Stumpf argues that emotions are passive feelings as opposed to active feelings which are directed towards a duty, a project or an intention to be achieved through voluntary actions.

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.

The crowd was alternately energized and passive, feeling its way by the minute.

There's a larger purpose that people are feeling that they didn't feel a year or two ago, which is very galvanizing, it's not a passive feeling at all.

As a longtime political organizer, I would never have believed it possible to get so many regular people so fired up about something as abstract and passive-feeling as the idea that we all might be wrong--and that our opponents deserve respect.

Nor were you ever to inquire how much the editor intended to pay, which payment anyway was based on a sliding scale of one rate up to so many words, another rate after, depending on who you were, what you'd been promised in bonus points or whether you threatened to sell it elsewhere, which meant you hurt his passive-aggressive feelings.

The limitations of the technique lie in its fundamentally Pavlovian treatment of the spectator as a passive lump whose feelings can (and, as far as the more propagandistic filmmakers were concerned, should) be manipulated by the iron hand of the director.

In a relationship or similar contact, passive and melancholic feelings were also often reported to stand in the way of sexual activity.

I remember feeling passive, like the most consequential things in life were the ones that happened to me, sometimes for no apparent reason.