| The passivity involved here is that of letting oneself be affected by all that is negative, by injustice and death. |
| The author refuses to submit to a life of reason and science, which he equates with the incogitant passivity of a "piano-key." |
| But it held onto aspects of the critique of the multiversity and student passivity from its headier past. |
| Paternalism fosters passivity and dependence, saps self confidence, and undermines people's ability to cope. |
| Rather than fortitude, courage or conviction, his morality play teaches resignation, passivity and submission. |
| 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? |
