Sentence examples for their passivity from inspiring English sources
However, many remain passive bystanders who, by their passivity, encourage perpetrators.
Celtic may have regretted their passivity.
They are in no position to complain, and their passivity is considered a sterling trait".
If they choose not to, viewers will judge them for their passivity under pressure.
Yet it's we– the younger generation – who are going to suffer the consequences of their passivity.
Their passivity, their silence, is very bad for the community, because it allows the ultras to set the agenda.
The researchers hypothesised that users of Twitter are the more influential the more they manage to overcome their followers' "passivity", meaning their tendency not to to pass on messages (only one in 318 messages containing an internet address is "retweeted" the researchers found).Based on that assumption they developed an algorithm that calculates a user's influence.
So much of their comedy depends on their sexual passivity, on one or both of them taking the female sexual role, submissive to sexually dominant women.
Even once it had stopped purposely killing its citizens in large numbers, it oppressed them, it poisoned them with a toxic environment, it stuffed their ears continually with nonsense, it demanded their absolute passivity.
Indeed, there is something of Marcello Mastroianni in Moravia's protagonists: they present an endless series of self-loathing, conflicted men who aspire to make art or take some form of decisive action, but who instead are thwarted and trapped by their own lack of nerve; often, they analyze their own failings with great lucidity, creating elaborate psychological monuments to their own passivity.
I remember those lads, their bullet heads and quiet eyes, their regional accents, their pragmatic courtesy, how equably they accepted my gash china and petrol-coupon cutlery, their junkie passivity, the incurious kindness with which one of them helped me break into my house when I'd locked myself out.
