Example sentences for: passivity

How can you use “passivity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Their celebrity didn't shield them from the consequences of their passivity.

  • (Actually, I think that the Bank of Japan could still pull that economy out of its funk, and that its passivity is a case of gross malfeasance.

  • Is aggression the same as aggressiveness , or, on the other side of the spectrum, is passivity the same as passiveness ? The first is more the state, the second more the behaviour--but how about scarcity and scarceness ? One runs into the same problem with the - ing gerund versus the - ation nouns: which sounds better, implementing or implementation, ratifying or ratification?

  • There was the same hieratic passivity, as if she were waiting for his response to complete the sequence.

  • A simple historical cycle consists of alternating phases of political activism followed by political passivity.


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