Example sentences for: passivity

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

  • (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.

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

  • True, there's the hollow man, Pierce Brosnan, in the McQueen role, but he's not bad here: His passivity is archly amusing.

  • 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.

  • In places, his indictment of certain aspects of the Mexican character is so harsh--he accuses his fellow countrymen of pathological passivity and a love of lying--that it verges on masochism.


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