Примеры употребления для PASSIVENESS
1. The passiveness, submissiveness and selfishness of some sections of the population is also an important factor.
2. Keats called the creative process "negative capability ... when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason". Wordsworth understood that the poet needs "wise passiveness" and "a heart that watches and receives". When our minds are stuffed with current ideas, we cannot be truly creative because there is no room for anything new.
3. "To this point, we‘ve seen only spurts of engagement and muscle from the administration, surrounded by long droughts of silence and passiveness." Bush is considering whether to sign the divestment bill, which has raised concerns among senior advisers as a possible encroachment on foreign policy.
4. Civil disobedience is a type of passive resistance (some thinkers do not accept the passiveness of civil disobedience) which uses non–violent technique of refusal to obey civil laws or follow a policy believed to be unjust in an effort to induce change in governmental policy or legislation.