passivity
Example Sentences
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Far from improving conditions, diplomatic passivity has allowed the government to dig in its heels, intensifying repression and exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.
All the hype about the Lebanese disarming Hezbollah has given way to familiar passivity and disappointment.
On Tuesday, the reformist Shargh newspaper said skipping the summit showed "passivity, a lack of initiative and a loss of opportunity in foreign policy".
From Barron's
Director Nancy Medina’s staging, circumnavigating a theatrical circle, lifts the audience out of its proscenium passivity into something almost immersive and definitely interactive.
From Los Angeles Times
I’m willing to blame some of that passivity on his head injury, but it’s hard to care about a character who only has a personality for three minutes.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
