Professor Michael Fischer, of Harvard, who spent much of 1975 in that city, described the atmosphere at the time, in a monograph he called "The Qum Report," as "one of siege and courageous passive hostility to a state perceived to be the stronger, but morally corrupt, opponent".
Surely, it is common sense that passive aggression, sarcasm, quiet resentment, hostility and an inability to move on is crippling and can surely reap a lifetime of same.
Passive aggression or passiveness.
It rests upon a counterfactual belief in infinite growth and on the tenets of minimalist passive governance, hostility to regulation, and aversion to public sector investment.
As an author of a book about effectively managing passive aggression, I feel just a wee bit of pressure to follow my own advice when it comes to stopping sugarcoated hostility in its tracks.
In his self-authored comic roles, Mr. Brooks often exudes a passive-aggressive hostility, a latent capacity for violence held in check by neurosis and cowardice.
He responded to these criticisms by arguing that, before Calvinism, capitalist enterprise and wealth accumulation were always fettered by the passive or active hostility of the prevalent religious order.
These young people see schools in the midst of a series of institutions that oppress their communities -- institutions that provoke alienation, resistance, and passive or active hostility.
That shift in the last few years from passive silence to active hostility is what makes the Vatican's current stance so distressing.
For the passive aggressive child, masking hostility is a priority.
Growing up I often did not understand when people displayed envious hostility in passive aggressive ways.
