65 examples of passivity in sentences

He felt a curious sense of passivity.

But whatever thought, general or special, this first verse may be dismissing, we come at once thereafter into the light of a definite question: 'Which is noblerto endure evil fortune, or to oppose it à outrance; to bear in passivity, or to resist where resistance is hopelessresist to the lastto the death which is its unavoidable end?'

This passivity is, of course, our danger, and it is one which slowness on our part tends to increase.

Yes, she was happy in this roseate passivity.

[Lat.], inertion^, inactivity, torpor, languor; quiescence &c 265; latency, inaction; passivity.

If that be the destiny of America, which you all believe to be, then that destiny can never be fulfilled by acting the part of passive spectators, and by this very passivity granting a charter to ambitious Czars to dispose of the condition of the world.

There are men who believe the position of a power on earth will come to you by itself; but oh! do not trust to this fallacy; a position never comes by itself; it must be taken, and taken it never will be by passivity.

Granting that much good might be done, he shows that the very passivity of the people must result in deterioration, "that is, if the nation had ever attained anything to decline from."

He had in his way the fatalist passivity of the people, which hides itself, on Gallic soil, behind a veil of ironic carelessness.

They were her only really fine features, for the nose tilted an engaging trifle, the mouth was a little too generous, the chin so strong that it gave, in moments of passivity, an air of sternness to her face.

Receptivity is not passivity, but activity arrested (through the body).

Sin is thus only a lesser reality than virtue, evil a lesser good; good and bad, activity and passivity, power and weakness are merely distinctions in degree.

Passivity is diminished activity, negation of the totality of reality.

They may be seen in the systole and diastole of the heart; in the alternate activity and passivity of the lungs; in the feet of the pedestrian, one pausing while the other proceeds; in the waving wings of birds; in the undulation of the sea; in the creation and propagation of sound, and the propagation, at least, of light; in the alternate acceleration and retardation of the earth's motion in its orbit, and in the waving of its poles.

She lived over and over the scene with him, she endured with desperate passivity the recollection of his burning lips on her bosom, his fingers pressing into her side.

If the individual so resisted be of a not inhumane temper, and the resisting one perfectly harmless in his passivity; then, in the better moods of the former, he will endeavor charitably to construe to his imagination what proves impossible to be solved by his judgment.

All three of those present had many times seen Galen Albret possessed by his noted fits of anger, so striking in contrast to his ordinary contained passivity.

This habit of abstractionproperly a complete passivity of the mindafter a while developed another habit, in which I now see the root of that peculiar condition which made me a Medium.

She was conscious throughout that his endurance was being put to the utmost test, and only by the most complete passivity could she help him.

As often as not, it's mere passivity that effects the end.

She sank into resigned passivity at last, and continued to visit Boldini's house daily, learning ultimately to accept, as a matter of professional course, the repulsive flattery of refined vice.

The exotic dance had made him recall her past and in order to regain her sway over him, subjecting him in sweet passivity, she sprang up from the divan, running about the room.

Intellectual effort was destructive to the blessed state, which was pure passivity, untroubled contemplation in its early stages, before the oncoming of rapture.

After luncheon, while we were smoking, one of my young friends, who could bear passivity no longer, played a few chords of Wagner on a piano.

But in this actual world of ours, as it is given, a part at least of the activity comes with definite direction; it comes with desire and sense of goal; it comes complicated with resistances which it overcomes or succumbs to, and with the efforts which the feeling of resistance so often provokes; and it is in complex experiences like these that the notions of distinct agents, and of passivity as opposed to activity arise.

65 examples of  passivity  in sentences