Sentence examples for passivity for from inspiring English sources

She sustains her enigmatic passivity for days, unnerving her colleagues and disturbing the office flow as she practices the fine, rigorous art of saying no.

The weak-willed novelist Trigorin (deftly underplayed by Kevin Kline to emphasize the character's lethal passivity), for instance, destroys on a whim the callow actress and eponymous seagull, Nina (Natalie Portman).

Bella Swan, the heroine in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels, drew criticism for her passivity, for letting all her battles be fought by men – vampire men who'd spend the night creepily watching her sleep.

But on the day the novel begins she sheds her passivity for the first time: a younger woman named Katja, her close friend, is attacked by a German officer visiting Frauenstein, and Hanna, defending her, kills him with a blow to the head.

Abramović's Rhythm 0 (as with its less extreme precursor, Yoko Ono's Cut Piece, in which the artist sat motionless with a pair of scissors for the audience to shear away pieces of her clothes) seems to use the performer's passivity for a ritual that exposes the basest desires of the audience, revealing the mind of the mob.

Further, the zero inequalities help to propose the sufficient conditions for finite-time boundedness and passivity for uncertainties.

Stochastic G-passivity for nonsquare systems is introduced and necessary and sufficient conditions for strict stochastic G-passifiability are formulated.

The condition for stability is obtained by studying the condition for passivity of the resulting two-port.

However, the conclusion that the perceptual modality which provides data for the defective action monitoring process i.e visual or proprioceptive for passivity experiences, auditory for auditory hallucinations determines the modality of perceptual symptoms is not accepted unequivocally.

Using this Lypunov funciton, we derive passivity conditions for the fluid system which may in turn be used for flow stabilization.

Recently, the authors in [1] and [2] considered the problem of exponential passivity analysis for uncertain NNs with time-varying delays and passivity-based controller design for Hopfield NNs, respectively.