| 单词 | passiveness |
| 例句 | That is, as much as a war of passiveness and inaction could be said to rage. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But his apparent passiveness masks a finely attenuated eye for the absurdity of life in the city. John Wilson Reveals the Absurd Poetry of New York 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Q: How did you connect with her initial passiveness at her crumbling marriage? Jennifer Aniston on being a 'badass' after 'Friends' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z That said, passiveness alone didn't lead the credit to expire. Solving childhood hunger shouldn't be a partisan issue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z She loathes him – for his gentlemanliness and solemnity, his passiveness, his "pompous self-sufficiency", his "brilliance" and the "immorality" of the views which that brilliant mind emits. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z But the Australian passiveness disappeared in the small window between the showers that arrived as forecast after lunch. Australia hit England between Edgbaston showers 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Brown, Abdul-Rauf said, “saw a passiveness in me that he didn’t like. Because sometimes when I was talking after games and they would ask me questions, I was tiptoeing. He was like: ‘Hey, man. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s protest cost him an NBA career, but ‘I’d do it again’ 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z The Celtics kept fighting and got the fans back into it but never got particularly close in the second half, in part because of Tatum’s passiveness and ineffectiveness. After good rise, Tatum, Celtics fall flat late in NBA Finals 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z There were moving screens and passiveness on the penalty kill, slow line changes and odd-man rushes, a soft goal that trickled past Price. Lightning Close In on the Stanley Cup, and Carey Price Can’t Stop Them 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z At the Politburo meeting, Kim criticized the senior officials for supposed incompetence, irresponsibility and passiveness in planning and executing anti-virus measures amid the lengthening pandemic, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said. Kim Jong-un berates North Korean officials for ‘crucial’ virus lapse 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Slim Ben Achour, one of the lawyers representing the groups, said the move “confronts the state with its responsibilities,” about what he called its passiveness in addressing the issue. Groups Put French State on Legal Notice Over Police Racism 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z One of Corbyn’s telling characteristics is his seeming passiveness, his tendency to shrink at vital moments. Can Jeremy Corbyn Lose the British Election and Still Win? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z King recognized that the legalized and longstanding oppression that he and his black followers were subjected to was depraved and was appealing to the broader society’s moral code and passiveness. MLK speaks powerfully to us in 2019 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Scapegoating Google for societal passiveness and for unscrupulous males seems a facile response. Opinion | Google Doesn’t Want What’s Best for Us 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Trump’s passiveness in Flint betrayed his hustle—when confronted, he folds like a badly run casino. Trump and the Truth: Black Outreach As Campaign Ploy 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Finally, one man sat cross-legged in front of the horse as a sign of passiveness. Beyond Horse-Whispering 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Or maybe, like lots of managers, you turn to passive aggression – or plain old passiveness. Whoops, You Hired a Dud. Now What? 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Banda said Stow did not respond, only motioned with his hands in a sign of passiveness. Doctor: Bryan Stow's blood-alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Despite bouts of passiveness, Andrew Wiggins has been among the nation’s top 15 performers, as has teammate Joel Embiid when healthy. College basketball is stuck in a one-and-done rut 2014-03-16T00:32:57Z I like to deem my current state wise passiveness, but it is probably just dumb incapacity. Living With Cancer: Nude Mice 2013-12-05T20:11:29Z Miss Arden often wondered afterwards at her own passiveness through all this. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z 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. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z There was something at once annoying and disarming in his passiveness, and Herrick drove home this question with a voice as hard as a blow. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z A dreamy passiveness held him in its thrall and she was about him always like a sweet despotism. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z She attempted no vain resistance; but, with a sullen passiveness, suffered herself to be seized and dragged to the shore. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z Indeed, writers like Plutarch show almost the temper of Pascal, trying to secure rest for their souls by a wise passiveness and pious contemplation, and participation in sacraments not understood. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Patience is no more like passiveness in its smallest exercises than in these great ones. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z She does not soothe him into “a wise passiveness,” she rather inspires him with a strange, fierce energy. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z Oswald, with the passiveness of a tired child, submitted to it all. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The emotions produced by the surrounding objects were so delightful, that the mind contentedly remained in a state of passiveness, receiving, without resistance, every idea that presented itself. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z The effect itself is called passion or passiveness. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Nothing can be further from passiveness than his state in his hour of trial, though he may sit without moving a muscle. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z Poetry stirs the Imagination, the Will, disturbs the passiveness that Beauty produces. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z "If my new governess isn't pretty, like Hilda, I don't want her," said Dicky, when his mother had wailed herself into a state of momentary passiveness. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z To this class a change of masters is a matter of indifference;—they are handed from one to another with the passiveness of a purchased horse. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z “Action, when properly set in opposition to passion or passiveness,” says he, “is no real existence; it is not the same with an action, but is a mere relation.” An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Charmed into passiveness for the time, I crouched and stared at this strange sight. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z With a passiveness that in her was pitiful, she let him kiss her unresponsive lips. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Over the face of Pierre there shot a terrible self-revelation; he imprinted repeated burning kisses upon her; pressed hard her hand; would not let go her sweet and awful passiveness. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Fisher's argument to show the passiveness of prices takes the form of a reductio ad absurdum. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z The one is pure passim or passiveness; the other is pure action—the very opposite of passivity. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Miller's passiveness dogged him in Minnesota last season, but he is attempting fewer shots per game in Washington, even with the team limited offensively. Washington Wizards guard Mike Miller faces possible changes this summer 2010-03-21T04:00:00Z 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. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z The attitude of the poet’s mind in the composition of these earlier poems was that of a genial passiveness rather than that of creative activity. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil For a moment they stood staring into each other's eyes, one with mounting anger, the other with sullen passiveness. The Man from Jericho All the rest is pure passion or passiveness. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z A kind of dull passiveness came over me, which they mistook for resignation. The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story Thus they remained for fully fifteen minutes, and Winthrop, going on with his work, admired her passiveness, he had never before seen the ability to maintain undisturbed an easy silence in a girl so young. East Angels This silence, this passiveness on the part of their hitherto aggressive and turbulent gaolers was portentous. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley Nevertheless it was he, the loyal and the pure, who introduced the system at this period; it was he who in the seventeenth century pointed out the road to passiveness. Priests, Women, and Families And there is another reason for my passiveness. Diplomatic Immunity That is the key to my life—to make the best of it, but not drearily, with the passiveness of a slave, but passionately and with desire. The Kempton-Wace Letters And this passiveness was so unusual with her that it alarmed and irritated Percival by turns. Under False Pretences A Novel There against the blue sky, all the world would have seemed petrified into the complete passiveness of sitting for its picture. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. It causes a girl to yield to temptation because it induces passiveness to the will of the projector. The Colored Girl Beautiful He loved scholar-like calm and quiet inaction; his very greatness depended on his not acting, on his ‘wise passiveness,’ on his indulging the grave idleness which so well appreciates so much of human life. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The very proper coldness and passiveness of Eastern audiences finds small favor beyond the mountains. Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso Thy mother enslaves thee, and thy passiveness meets only with hardships and abuse. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 But passive architecture without help for its passiveness is unendurable. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Deep down within me, down below my love for Sally or for the child, something older than any emotion, older than any instinct except the instinct of battle, awakened and passed from passiveness into violence. The Romance of a Plain Man Parents, unfortunately, seldom realize the evil consequences of their passiveness, I will even say cowardice, in making use of subterfuge, pretext and falsehood, to elude the naïve questions of their children concerning sexual matters. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Even the apparent passiveness of the geologic products is illusive, for they are in reality expressions of continued internal activities of an intense, though occult, order. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College 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 Book of Khalid There was but a solitary exception to this passiveness, and it was well nigh terminating in the escape of its author, and in the death of some of the whites. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State So great was the passiveness of the North that her most eminent orator, instead of decrying the proposition as unworthy of humanity, even lifted up his voice in its defense. John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884. 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. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study The advocates of necessity contend, not only that volition is the effect of motive, but also that “to be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause.” A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The resignation and passiveness of the spirit should always alternate equitably with the terrible strivings of the will. The Book of Khalid He was not likely to meet with a repulse from so gentle a creature, but the acquiescence with which she received his assiduities seemed more the result of habitual passiveness than of reciprocal attachment. The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale As temperament is the receptive faculty, the artist's attitude toward life is what Wordsworth called "wise passiveness,"—Wordsworth, the poet of "impassioned contemplation." The Enjoyment of Art Later on, a man fell in love with her, and she yielded to him rather from pity and feminine passiveness than from love. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Life means to each one of us what we are able to receive of it in "wise passiveness," and then are able by the constructive force of our individuality to shape into coherence and completeness. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life It was the triumph of feminine passiveness, laughing at the arrogant ostentation of the opposite sex, knowing that in the end she would witness his humiliation. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The strength in her was the strength of passiveness; she could endure, but she could not battle. Virginia Keats, too,—and among the poets, whose vision of beauty was more beautiful, whose grasp on the truth more true?—characterizes himself as "addicted to passiveness." The Enjoyment of Art I had often occasion to remark how injurious it was to the impression of Coleridge's finest displays where the minds of the hearers had been long detained in a state of passiveness. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 She abandoned herself to him with the passiveness of a fascinated creature, without a word of protest or resistance, but also without a consciousness of what she was doing; in a word, she was hypnotized. The Comedienne Observe the baffled endeavour of Goneril to act on the fears of Albany, and yet his passiveness, his inertia; he is not convinced, and yet he is afraid of looking into the thing. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Human beings, who, like everything else, exist svabhâvât, 'by themselves,' are supposed to be capable of arriving at Nirvritti, or passiveness, which is nearly synonymous with Nirvâna. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed these minds of ours In a wise passiveness. Practical Ethics She opened them without any start, and remained quite motionless looking at him, as if the sense that he was there smiling at her shut out any impulse which could disturb that happy passiveness. Romola Her very passiveness baffled him and caused him to ask himself what it meant. Lodusky In self-hypnosis, he is extremely conscious although his general physical appearance is one of passiveness. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis When away from her, with but the memory of her face, her innocent wiles, her passiveness under his caresses, passion had its way with him, blinding him, rendering him desperate, careless of consequences. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The Colonization Society has committed a great error in its philanthropic arrangements of providing for six months' passiveness after going to Africa. Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party But it was absolutely necessary first that she should be reduced to passiveness. Romola There was no untimely motion or change of expression, and yet no trying passiveness. Lodusky It is to awaken the free, earnest exertion of our powers, to rouse us from passiveness to activity and life, that inward inspirations, and the teachings of outward nature, are accorded to the mind. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American 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 Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms The provisions, for those who require them, I do not object to, but the passiveness is fatally injurious. Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Nothing can be more striking and startling than the passiveness with which, for our sakes, God as man submitted His incarnate body to the horrors and tortures of the crucifixion. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion In such circumstances as ours there is no such thing as 'a wise passiveness.' On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature Whether through Alfred's passiveness or by mistake, one of Palmer's fists landed square on the nose of Alfred. Watch Yourself Go By In 1843 the office of Attorney-General was abolished, by the active efforts of the Democrats aided by the passiveness of the Whigs. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 It is an identical proposition in verbal disguise, with the fault that it makes negation affirmation, passiveness action. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Her impulse throbbed itself away into a lonely passiveness again. Faith Gartney's Girlhood He calls this latter a "wise passiveness"�a "dreaming": but is nevertheless an active passivity�a waking dream. Nature Mysticism My languid eyes, my cheeks glowing and my temples throbbing with fever, and my total passiveness, attracted his attention and arrested his stroke. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 This interested him especially as he noted great anxiety and incessant movement in the one, and complete passiveness in the other. The Chief Legatee Laura Upham's great hollow eyes, filled with an utter passiveness of despair, stared up at him out of a sallow gloom of face. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel The utmost improvement in Tina had not gone beyond passiveness and acquiescence—a quiet grateful smile, compliance with Oswald's whims, and an increasing consciousness of what was being said and done around her. Scenes of Clerical Life I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed these minds of ours In a wise passiveness. Nature Mysticism You want not the power or the will; but, knowing that I spurn at murder, you think your safety will be found in passiveness. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Lucy cast her eyes down and waited, her whole attitude was that of utter passiveness and yielding. The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel Barney lay there all that time, and his soul became fairly bound into passiveness with awful fetters of fiery bone and muscle; sometimes he groaned, but nobody heard him. Pembroke A Novel In spite of the passiveness of the Queen's men, their hands were locked behind them with force bars about their wrists. Plague Ship It is the poem in which these verses occur:— 'Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed these minds of ours In a wise passiveness. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century "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!" The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt She was in the state of subjective passiveness when the consciousness of external objects alone seems awake. The Voice of the People She folded her hands with a passiveness which boded future ill. The Grey Cloak The nation is sent back into passiveness, inertness, nothingness, and the legislator takes possession of omnipotence. Essays on Political Economy It is a genuine forest-nature, mute yet never inglorious, reciting uncomplainingly its lesson of passiveness and endurance. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees It was a very simple one—total passiveness and silence. Christian's Mistake He "feeds his mind with a wise passiveness." Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology I am resolved to think it out to an end, and then act: it is this passiveness which is killing me. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 They had by terror broke her spirit, and her passiveness was reckoned upon as an indication of amendment. The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) To be "out of action" will mean passiveness in the face of the enemy. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" As for the worship of nature, it leads to a “wise passiveness” instead of the wise energy of knowledge and virtue, and tempts man to idle in pantheistic reveries. The Art of Letters True, my lord; not very hard; no act is required; only passiveness. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II I have heard of the "passiveness" of woman's love, but the passive woman is only one who does not love—she merely consents to have affection lavished upon her. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Boyce sounded stern, his voice mirroring the guilt felt by both for their passiveness when action was the necessity. Scorched Earth Antonyms: inactivity, passiveness, quiescence. actor, n. doer, participant, performer; comedian; tragedian; thespian; impersonator, personator, mime, mimic; pantomimist; barnstormer; hamfatter; supernumerary. actress, n. tragedienne; comedienne; ingenue, soubrette, understudy; star. actual, a. real, veritable. Putnam's Word Book Such activity of the visual nerve differs widely from the wise passiveness or brooding power of the Wordsworthian mode of contemplation. Robert Browning Now that I have been thrust out of active life and forced to make up my mind to perfect passiveness, I have become a bugbear to myself. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 But let there be no mistake—it took strength to act this weakness and passiveness of Desdemona's. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections The elbow drawn inward, signifies impotence, fear, subordination, humility, passiveness, poverty of spirit. Delsarte System of Oratory What could I do but endeavor to lie down in passiveness under it, and crave that nothing might interfere to mar the work of the Lord? A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Of fair ability, and great industry in his earlier life, the irresolution and passiveness of advancing age and physical infirmity were now upon him. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 I repeat to myself, "At least to-morrow and the day after, you will have something to do to further your plans;" and that promises a transition from utter passiveness to a feverish activity. Without Dogma Thereafter the Lords Proprietors relapsed into passiveness, commissioning a new governor now and then and occasionally scolding the colonists for disobedience. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime But a man's passiveness to a beloved object of our sex may not, perhaps, argue want of courage on proper occasions. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 The man had often tried to affront him; and his passiveness, interpreted into cowardice, had perhaps encouraged the other to additional rudeness. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are But he tried at times to slumber, sunk in a wise passiveness. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti The essence of these lies in the passiveness and neutrality of the intellectual powers. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author These two apertures, together with the passiveness of the public, made the legislative obstacles of no effect whatever. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime How was she to tell Rosy of the ugly, morbid situation which made ordinary passiveness impossible. The Shuttle Yet her passiveness of disposition was by no means owing to an indifferent or unfeeling mind. The Bride of Lammermoor The marble hand drooped tragically above the entrance: in the waning light it seemed to have relaxed into the passiveness of despair, and Wyant stood musing on its hidden meaning. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 She knew in advance what form they would take—the gradual cessation of the inner throb, the soft approach of passiveness, as though an invisible hand made magic passes over her in the darkness. House of Mirth Likewise where the family affairs of slaves were concerned the silence and passiveness of the law gave masters occasion for eloquence and activity. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime All passiveness and unconcern had dropped from them. The Call of the Wild A feeling of complete passiveness had once more come over her, and she was conscious only of the pleasant animal sensations of warmth and rest. Summer I do not wonder that I listened to his arguments, and observed his conduct, until I was reduced to passiveness, and my mind was willing to be moulded to his purposes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 She did not resist me when I took her into my arms, but her very passiveness was ominous. The Great Secret See you not in her passiveness, what boisterous spirits can obtain from gentler, merely by teasing and ill-nature? Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Out of this ocean Khepera raised himself, and so passed from a state of passiveness and inertness into one of activity. Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations Endeavors to find excuses for her father's ill temper, and for her mother's passiveness. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 I bear all with my accustomed passiveness, and am rewarded by my father's having bought it for me; and it is now at Archer's for you. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 Observe the baffled endeavour of Goneril to act on the fears of Albany, and yet his passiveness, his 'inertia'; he is not convinced, and yet he is afraid of looking into the thing. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Confiding probably in the secrecy of their plot, and the late passiveness of the admiral, they appear to have been perfectly unguarded. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) One would not believe the utter passiveness of the people. Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. This passiveness in my mother and in my aunt, in a point so contrary to their own first judgments, is too strong a proof that my father is absolutely resolved. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 With this solitary exception the Afghans had nowhere encountered resistance, and the strange passiveness of our people encouraged them to act with vigour. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 His drugged passiveness showed Oliver with desolating clarity that anything that could be done would have to be done by himself. Young People's Pride A Novel We want activity, no doubt, but we want a wise passiveness as its foundation. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI Fellowship with Him is no indolent passiveness, nor the luxurious exercise of certain emotions, but the contact of the whole nature with its sole adequate object and rightful Lord. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark He too explained how the souls of all creatures should empty themselves, so to speak, and prepare themselves in absolute passiveness, in 'inaction and lassitude,' for a glorified state. Life of Luther It is no feeble passiveness, no dead indifference, no impossible abnegation that God requires, when He requires us to put our wills in accord with His. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The passiveness of the government results from their knowledge that the militia are not to be depended on. The Duke of Stockbridge 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. Chantry House And again:— "Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress; And we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness." Autobiographical Sketches "Of all women's moods, I love her best in the dreamy languor of passiveness." A Heart-Song of To-day The silence of the soul before God is no mere passiveness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Wordsworth's "wise passiveness" was utterly foreign to his nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 Inaction -- N. inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action; noninterference, nonintervention; Fabian policy, conservative policy; neglect &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases I am for Wordsworth's creed of "wise passiveness." Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough So,—in perfect passiveness,—he awaited his end. Temporal Power But a suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes, and Stephen became more and more uneasy as the day advanced, under the sense that Maggie had entirely lost her passiveness. The Mill on the Floss This is a passive force, and its passiveness only makes it more formidable. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan All her other babes had grown past her helpless instinctive tenderness, and Theodore's continued passiveness had been hitherto an advantage, which had always been called his 'goodness and affection.' The Pillars of the House, V1 It could scarcely be said that he had settled down into ruts, for this would presuppose the passiveness of a nature controlled largely by circumstances. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century It had been the moment of his life, and yet even now he felt sick at heart with fears, with the torment of her passiveness. The Evil Shepherd The passiveness of our neighbors increases our sense of security, and plays into the hands of our wilfulness. Considerations on Representative Government Why, therefore, should not the secret of nature's invariableness be, not passiveness, but rightness?' The Recreations of a Country Parson She waited in complete passiveness until the yelling and shouting had subsided, motionless save for her finger-tips, which beat an impatient tattoo upon the railing in front of her. I Will Repay For a moment Kao seemed to hesitate, to study the cold, gray passiveness of the other's face. The River's End As time progressed, the passiveness of Amanda encouraged in Lane his natural love of ruling. Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine A people are no less unfitted for representative government by the contrary fault to that last specified--by extreme passiveness, and ready submission to tyranny. Considerations on Representative Government It was this virile eagerness, this force of personality, which had before charmed her thought into passiveness, and made her senses its subject; but a stronger motive of resistance actuated her now. A Life's Morning It was not easy to tell in his absolute passiveness. The Trial Cecil never moved; once his eyes went to Rockingham with a look of yearning, grateful, unendurable pain; but it was repressed instantly; a perfect passiveness was on him. Under Two Flags 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. Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine The effect of the conversation had been to bring Rachel to a meek submission, very touching in its passiveness and weary peacefulness. Clever Woman of the Family The news was affecting her strongly, but only in the way in which she now received every impression; physical weakness had the effect of reducing outward demonstration of feeling, and her spiritual condition favoured passiveness. A Life's Morning Meantime Averil Ward was acquiescing in all Henry's projects with calm desperate passiveness. The Trial We smiled upon each other then, And life to me wore less That fell contour it wore ere when They owned their passiveness. Poems of the Past and the Present While in this state, she spoke plainly of his assumption of authority over her from the first,—of her passiveness for a time,—of being finally aroused to opposition. Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine Edith Harnham’s large dark eyes expressed some interest in the contents, though, in her character of mere interpreter, she threw into her tone as much as she could of mechanical passiveness. Life's Little Ironies Nor less I dream that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 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?" Guy Mannering How far he was impelled by the half-contemptuous passiveness of his companions it would be difficult to say. Snow-Bound at Eagle's The passiveness of his demeanor afforded too little scope for such broad merriment as the masqueraders sought. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni Arrowhead and his wife also remained, the former standing aloof in proud reserve, and the latter exhibiting, by her attitude and passiveness, the meek humility that characterizes an Indian woman. Pathfinder; or, the inland sea Yet Adrian endeavoured to console himself for his present passiveness in a conviction of the policy of his conduct. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes |
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