| His overaggressiveness on defense often landed him in foul trouble, and his passiveness on offense often caused him to be a nonfactor. |
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| Putti, his eyes bright from the fire, instantly noticed her passiveness, but he spoke nothing of it as he gazed proudly at her beside the fire. |
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| One possible charge against the telco, however, might be passiveness in not doing more to warn customers against this danger. |
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| Women's bell-like tittering and men's droning passiveness filled the void my nervousness made. |
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| We will wait for another nuclear explosion or Mandir-Masjid dispute to shake us out of our passiveness. |
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| He becomes a practising mystic using wise passiveness and transcendental experience as methods of breaking his ego chains. |
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| The one thing I'm taking away from this experience is that apathy and passiveness don't make anything better. |
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| Thus, citizens are girded with a legal instrument for combating administrative passiveness and delay. |
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| It should be noted as well that passiveness and isolation increase the intensity of the depression and difficulty in overcoming it. |
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| It's really the passiveness that makes such a mess of things. |
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| Other parents see woodworking as a way of counteracting the passiveness of logging on and tuning out. |
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| The world community is collectively hanging its head in shame for its own passiveness. |
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| Hence, it encourages the passiveness of the respondents, providing them with a way to hide ignorance or disinterestedness on the topic. |
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| A narrow road separates illusory, hence dangerous, efforts to subjugate the world from a passiveness that just as surely leads to disaster. |
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| First of all, it is important to understand the denial involved if we are to effectively fight passiveness. |
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| In larger doses, one can have feelings of fear, paranoia, aggressiveness or passiveness. |
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| She couldn't possibly struggle, she knew, or she'd jeopardize her intent there, and her passiveness was mistaken by Alex to be reciprocated passion. |
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| The armed forces' passiveness towards the government's defense policies after the power transition is mainly a result of the following three problems. |
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| They have a poor memory, which is the direct result of their general passiveness in world politics, as well as their general apathy towards their immediate environment. |
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| That passiveness is something I'm consciously working on changing. |
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| Rose's impassioned speech against passiveness and for making a stand about what's right struck a chord, and the whole final episode was based around this one idea. |
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| They were well known for their political passiveness, a position supported by a deep-seated belief in impotency of ordinary folk in the face of political ambitions. |
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| The midfield balance with Yohan Cabaye and Blaise Matuidi patrolling with perpetual motion and bite around Pogba showed a significant improvement on the passiveness of Kiev. |
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| This will require a far more pronounced use of active industrial policies reversing the trend of governmental passiveness advocated under the neoliberal growth paradigm. |
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| Another factor is the chaotic urbanization prevailing in the affected zone as a result of the local government's passiveness and laxness: citizens could and can just build any structure anywhere. |
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| The Spaniards' characteristic trait was a certain passiveness. |
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| In fact, the stalemate of the Gulf of Guinea Commission, like most regional economic communities of the zone, is due mainly to the passiveness and even non-involvement of the citizens in all those processes. |
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| Yet, like so many of the drifters in contemporary cinema, his patent passiveness seems to make him insensitive to the suffering around him, just as he is to the company of Ulzhan. |
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