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.

  • 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?

  • But whatever the cause, I would argue that your relative passivity in Washington is something to be proud of.

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

  • While this sounds reasonable enough, it overlooks the most gruesome similarity of all: that in the case of Bloom and of Farrow both, it is crippling passivity that brought them to the public eye in the first place and crippling passivity that kept them there.


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