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It became the target of attack among "modern" Chinese who regarded Daoist "non-striving" or "purposelessness" as the source of Chinese passivity.
If it is the case that a finite 'I' acquires identity only when confronted by an equally finite 'Thou', then, just as for the required interplay between the two one must assume on each side a source of 'passivity' that allows each to be limited by the other, so one must also equally assume in them a countervailing source of 'activity'activity
"All my friends tell me the world could be coming to an end, and I'm always so calm," - on the existentialist source of her Zen-like passivity.
Such grisly iconography of passivity and victimization became, to an adolescent boy, not only a morbid obsession but also a source of shame.
I was somewhat taken aback at a remark that Mr. Zwick made in his article: "Such grisly iconography of passivity and victimization became, to an adolescent boy, not only a morbid obsession but also a source of shame".
"It is a fear of passivity.
I had a history of passivity.
But George, alas, is the very model of passivity.
In other words Ashton has had a gutful of passivity.
Most conventional films reduce you to a kind of passivity.
That sort of passivity drives his wife crazy.
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