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.

  • It is this recognition that accounts for the strange air of passivity and gloom that dominates the book.

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


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