Whilst all this hell of crime is boiling round him, a strange passiveness seems to have crept over the king, and to have continued till his flight before Absalom.
And even when he begins to look forward to his own new course, there is that same remarkable passiveness which we have observed already.
The hunger of his desire burned her unanswering passiveness to life as she shuddered and drew back, her hands against him, thrusting him from her.
With a passiveness that in her was pitiful, she let him kiss her unresponsive lips.
The result of such concentrations is a passiveness which, were it of a reasoning nature, would resemble philosophy.
A dreamy passiveness held him in its thrall and she was about him always like a sweet despotism.
Likewise where the family affairs of slaves were concerned the silence and passiveness of the law gave masters occasion for eloquence and activity.
These two apertures, together with the passiveness of the public, made the legislative obstacles of no effect whatever.
Even the usual passiveness of the Dominie was so far disturbed that he twice went to the window which looked out upon the avenue, and twice exclaimed, 'Why tarry the wheels of their chariot?
Miss Mannering acquiesced with a passiveness which is no part of her character, and which, to tell you the plain truth, is a feature about the business which I like least of all.
But passiveness under such a relation does not always permanently remain; it was accompanied from the first by a sense of oppression and injustice, though love kept the feeling subdued.
As time progressed, the passiveness of Amanda encouraged in Lane his natural love of ruling.
In a later chapter, on "The Passiveness of Prices," I shall examine the doctrine of Professor Fisher more closely, and set these two views in clearer contrast.
See especially the chapter on "The Passiveness of Prices.
The Passiveness of Prices," where it is shown that the capitalization theory and the quantity theory are irreconcilable.
Fisher's argument to show the passiveness of prices takes the form of a reductio ad absurdum.
Later on, a man fell in love with her, and she yielded to him rather from pity and feminine passiveness than from love.
The woman who surrenders to the mercy of her conqueror often experiences a kind of pleasure which is associated with the passiveness of her sexual sentiments.
Here the passiveness in respect of quality is the same as activity, it being only a diminished activity.
Neither is the simple activity of the Ego a ground for the reality of the non-Ego, nor is the simple activity of the non-Ego a ground for the passiveness in the Ego.
To resolve this contradiction, we must find a mode of action which is activity and passiveness in one; the Ego must determine its passiveness through activity, and its activity through passiveness.
Starting from the conception of substance, we have posited a passiveness of the Ego through its own activity.
Ego is, therefore, a real ground of the passivenessin the Ego.
Starting from the conception of cause, we have posited through the passiveness of the Ego an activity of the non-Ego.
This passiveness of the Ego must have some ground.
Patience is no more like passiveness in its smallest exercises than in these great ones.
Nothing can be further from passiveness than his state in his hour of trial, though he may sit without moving a muscle.
As patience includes strong action of the mind, the vivacious child has a much better chance of becoming patient than the passive one;--so far are passiveness and patience from being alike.
He imagined the morrow, and the passivenessof that woman.
The resignation and passiveness of the spirit should always alternate equitably with the terrible strivings of the will.
The intensity and passiveness of the spirit are as natural in their attraction and repulsion as the elements, whose harmony is only patent on the surface.
The ritual condemned his act, but if Rameses in the realm of inexorable justice and supernal wisdom did not, how should he reconcile the threats of the ritual and the evident passiveness of the royal soul?
One has but to see him to know that he might be coaxed into passiveness with that for which an Israelite would sell his mummy--gold!
But the rioters, inflamed by the wine they had found in sacking the Mansion-House, and encouraged by the passiveness of the troops, had become entirely masters of the situation.
Even the usual passiveness of the Dominie was so far disturbed, that he twice went to the window, which looked out upon the avenue, and twice exclaimed, "Why tarry the wheels of their chariot?
And this passiveness was so unusual with her that it alarmed and irritated Percival by turns.
Elizabeth lost her unnatural passiveness of demeanour, and looked more like her clear-headed, energetic self; and Percival was less exacting and overbearing than he had been during the past week.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passiveness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
