Spectatorial passivity is strictly discouraged by such a mode of filmmaking. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
The most common rationale for his current passivity is that his plate is too full. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Reading] Reference
This question, of course, goes unasked as the line, a study in passivity, stares straight ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Trackin' Neal Cassady In San Miguel de Allende] Reference
The second category is passivity, which is submission to, and being invaded and devalued by others. From Wordnik.com. [Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: How to Be Assertive Without Being Arrogant] Reference
This passivity was almost dream-like, and yet, in its way, it was positive almost to a pitch of exaltation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
He half raised his arm, but a sudden irresolution possessed him, as though my passivity was a check upon his intentions. From Wordnik.com. [The Honour of the Flag] Reference
The "passivity" of the population, according to Figes, "is one of the most striking features of the Great Terror.". From Wordnik.com. [In Stalin's Trap] Reference
This is more subjective: I've seen a kind of passivity, an excessive "Yin" quality among many man who do tons of yoga. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
He had no patience for that kind of passivity in his own department, and always taught his residents to stand up to it. From Wordnik.com. [Mortal Remains]
But follow the argument through and it leads to a kind of passivity, Buddhistic stoicism if I may mix schools of thought. From Wordnik.com. [Is There a Cure for Greed? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
We still encountered this negative attitude of "passivity" imputed to irreversible phenomena, an attitude that I could not share. From Wordnik.com. [Ilya Prigogine - Autobiography] Reference
Theres no correlation to what you quoted me saying and "passivity". From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
Western powers as mere bystanders "wringing their hands" afflicted by "passivity" and even. From Wordnik.com. [Dissident Voice] Reference
There's a kind of passivity even to our activism: we think that all we can do is to protest. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0] Reference
There is a kind of passivity here, a kind of acceptance of the world rather than domination of it. From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
Instead, his reaction, or lack thereof, can come across as a kind of passivity in the face of the suffering of others. From Wordnik.com. [Politics Daily] Reference
"One of the several themes of the book is that kind of passivity and acquiescence, both in the personal realm and in the public realm.". From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
But there is a kind of passivity, willingness to let experiences accumulate and sink in and ripen, which is an essential of development. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
"lack of inquisitiveness" and his general "passivity". between these three is the Wall Street Journal. From Wordnik.com. [No Oil for Pacifists] Reference
Reagan emerges as a curious mix of charisma and passivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Role of a Lifetime] Reference
The Japanese soldiers were duty-bound to the point of passivity. From Wordnik.com. [A Clear and Moving 'Danger'] Reference
The detachment doesn't lead to passivity, but to new ways of thinking. From Wordnik.com. [BUDDHA LESSONS] Reference
She's slicing through a season and a half of passivity and victimhood. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Blankenship: True Blood Sucker Punch: Season 3, Ep. 6] Reference
Humility in this case is not to be confused with meekness or passivity. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Lincoln] Reference
But the troops 'passivity infuriated the Haitians who were begging for help. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In The Middle] Reference
This is the cause of the relative passivity they show and that Peter Gumbel deplores. From Wordnik.com. [British lecturer Peter Gumbel attacks French education culture] Reference
(Her performance as Erin Brockovich was as far from passivity as Texas is from India.). From Wordnik.com. ['Eat Pray' Preach Preen] Reference
In short, the numbers mean next to nothing in the face of overwhelming user passivity. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Maezen Miller: Death by Twitter] Reference
Self-esteem problems often contribute to aggression, except when they result in passivity. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, I'm Terrific!] Reference
He sat at the breakfast table sipping his tea knowing that his passivity was gnawing at her. From Wordnik.com. [Sympathy] Reference
If this is authoritarianism (and it is), it thrives with the consent (or passivity) of the governed. From Wordnik.com. [Two Forward, One Back] Reference
And the Palestinian Authority, discredited by its passivity in this winter's Gaza war, barely controls the West Bank. From Wordnik.com. [Fickle Friends in the War On Terror] Reference
He merely wonders whether Europe's passivity-and its present political climate-is leading inexorably to some wider catastrophe. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangerous Power Vacuum] Reference
As the appointed hour grew near, though, she made little attempt to conceal her hatred of Israel, or what she saw as Arab passivity. From Wordnik.com. [How Two Lives Met In Death] Reference
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