| The passivity involved here is that of letting oneself be affected by all that is negative, by injustice and death. |
| How come they were so invisible to people who wanted to sing the same old song about the absence or passivity of the religious left? |
| But it held onto aspects of the critique of the multiversity and student passivity from its headier past. |
| Rather than passivity and enervation, the goal now is loyalty and mobilization. |
| We have never acknowledged, let alone reconciled ourselves to, the marginality and passivity of our position in modern times. |
| The author refuses to submit to a life of reason and science, which he equates with the incogitant passivity of a "piano-key." |
