| We have never acknowledged, let alone reconciled ourselves to, the marginality and passivity of our position in modern times. |
| Patience can be meekness, patience can be too ready acceptance or passivity. |
| 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? |
| Rather than fortitude, courage or conviction, his morality play teaches resignation, passivity and submission. |
| Surrender is not the same as shirking one's responsibilities or assumption of passivity. |
| To that extent, the duteousness and passivity implied by the Protestant work ethic are truly dead. |
