Sentence examples for too much passivity from inspiring English sources
BOSTON - THERE has been too much peacenik in the Dude from Nazareth, too much hippie in the Red Sox player most likely to own a VW van, too much passivity in a leadoff hitter who usually defies his 60's veneer with every aggressive at-bat.
Millgram's understanding of mirroring does not, therefore, escape Cocking & Kennett's criticism of mirroring views as assigning too much passivity to the friend as mirror.
Second, they argue that the appeal to the friend's role as a mirror to explain the increasing similarity involves assigning too much passivity to the friend.
In fact, the world inhabited by the children of "Digimon" is strangely devoid of adults, leaving battling monsters to devastate swaths of some city with Japanese street signs without intervention by the police, military forces or, for that matter, anyone who seems not to be possessed by a passivity attributable to too much time in front of a television set or a computer screen.
"Maybe we don't quite buy Jim and Ewan's hots for one another, maybe the writing makes Carrey's character too much of a psychotic narcissist while rendering McGregor in terms of fluffy-bunny passivity, but either way it just ain't happening".
Since his fundamental stance is passivity, Merwin's language can't feel as though it were summoned from too much effort of learning, or from casually gleaned perception or overheard conversation, which would concede the existence of actual other people.
There had been a notable passivity about much of Murray's play in the opening three sets, his game plan against the world No6 relying a little too much on Davydenko making mistakes, rather than Murray imposing himself.
