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Example sentences for: passivity

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It is this recognition that accounts for the strange air of passivity and gloom that dominates the book.
Like Graham, Farrow "questions her own passivity in dealing with men and blames herself."
True, there's the hollow man, Pierce Brosnan, in the McQueen role, but he's not bad here: His passivity is archly amusing.
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?
Their celebrity didn't shield them from the consequences of their passivity.