Sentence examples for seeming passivity from inspiring English sources

But reactions today seemed to belie that seeming passivity.

You can also see why despite (or is it because of?) his seeming passivity, she describes him as dangerous.

Many foreign leaders, particularly those in European nations that have been more aggressive in dealing with climate change, have become critical of Mr. Obama's seeming passivity on the issue.

Apart from the heartfelt honoring of those lost — on that day and since — what seemed most striking is our seeming passivity and indifference toward the well from which our enemies draw their political strength and financial power: the strategic importance of oil, which provides the wherewithal for a generational war against us, as we mutter diplomatic niceties.

"Anatomy of a Meltdown" in Dec. 1 New Yorker is John Cassidy's distinctly balanced profile of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, underscoring both his seeming passivity when faced with manifestations of the subprime mortgage disaster and the reality that he's tried to be flexible amid confounding complexity.

That seeming passivity is now his greatest problem.

What seems like passivity is Rejas's resolute detachment.

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

A dose of his hangdog, would-be winsome passivity seems to be all they require.

That passivity seemed to ooze from Rafi Reyes as he talked about el escándalo Friday.

The same passivity seems to underlie the presentation of the numbers of people in this country who pose a threat to national security because of their support for terrorism.