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"passivity" Definitions
  1. the state of accepting what happens without reacting or trying to fight against it
"passivity" Synonyms
indifference apathy unresponsiveness impassiveness passiveness inactivity inaction docility nonparticipation inactiveness unconcern disinterest insouciance disregard phlegm emotionlessness dispassion aloofness detachment insensibility submission compliance obedience deference acquiescence submissiveness conformity dutifulness subservience yielding tractability meekness biddability servility malleability resignation surrender duteousness assent shiftlessness idleness sloth inertia indolence laziness sluggishness lethargy dullness listlessness slowness drowsiness inertness slothfulness sleepiness slackness negligence heaviness stoicism fortitude forbearance endurance patience calmness imperturbability longanimity acceptance unflappability philosophicalness impassivity coolness fatalism stolidity necessitarianism predestinarianism defeatism determinism gloom gloominess negativism pessimism predeterminism despair despondency destinism fate fatedness passive acceptance predestination frigidity coldness austerity chill frostiness iciness cold-heartedness lifelessness formality reserve standoffishness stiffness unapproachability wintriness lack of response touch-me-not attitude detente easement pause policy precaution unceremoniousness ease affluence ataraxia calm casualness comfort content contentment easiness enjoyment gratification happiness informality leisure nonviolence civil disobedience nonaggression pacification pacifism peaceableness nonagression non-violence satyagraha peacemaking peace-mongering dovishness passive resistance Gandhism conscientious objections conscientious objection love of peace nonbelligerence More

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Between the passivity of the F.B.I. and the passivity of the D.N.C., almost no progress had been made to identify and lock out the hackers.
Then again, Johanna's passivity could be a comment on religious conspiracies of silence and the ultimate passivity of God in the face of suffering and abuse.
But mute passivity is not the worst possible outcome here.
Women voters should and are demanding more than patronizing passivity.
Too often, daily use leads to passivity and decreased motivation.
Rather, the defining characteristic of these laws is their passivity.
Her innocence is believable, but her passivity is narratively problematic.
To him, the opposite of Revisionism remains a suicidal passivity.
They are staying in China and are totally thrown into passivity.
When does the relative passivity encouraged by Autopilot decrease reaction time?
Asking for dance music that negates passivity brings together queer people.
In other words, the default rule is adoption by congressional passivity.
Others disagreed with President Barack Obama's passivity in Syria in 2013.
Furthermore, telling ourselves we are addicted promotes passivity instead of empowerment.
Unless public engagement replaces our collective passivity, mass shootings will continue.
"For instance, beauty does not have to equal passivity," Schreiber said.
Passivity is not a good quality for making or consuming art.
While that's often true, unchecked passivity can boil over into aggression.
Radical love is the only solution, but passivity will be our downfall.
But after lulling the viewer into passivity it takes a menacing turn.
Even passivity is a choice, even if it is a default choice.
Or perhaps that hesitation reflected nothing more than Hastert's passivity and docility.
But there is a fine line between stoic resilience and irresponsible passivity.
They could test the limits of presidential power and the public's passivity.
But passivity rather than assertiveness has come to define Lopez in movies.
Often at the heart of Ring news reports is one thing: passivity.
But I would disagree about the enforced passivity to which he alludes.
The world will never forget his passivity in the face of such horrors.
I felt sickened by everything Sasha embodied: her weepy passivity, her adamant hopelessness.
Powerful states and governments support impunity for human-rights violations through their passivity.
Being trained and socialized to work in a jail snuffed out my passivity.
And for every "empowered" princess meme, there are several which sexualise their passivity.
Passivity plummeted from 40.1% to 26.9% between 2007 and 5.63, the report shows.
The young wife, Patra, has an elfin quality that belies an essential passivity.
"Their passivity, especially in the face of explicit abuse, reinforces sexist tropes," it said.
There is always an excuse for passivity, a reason not to care or confront.
After long facing accusations of passivity, Moscow has now clearly gone on the offensive.
It sounds like one of Mr Trump's sagas of Chinese cheating and American passivity.
There is a passivity to the work that belies the undertone of the project.
Public discretion should not be mistaken for passivity in preventing and punishing sexual harassment.
And some see Mr. Obama's caution and passivity as a contributing cause to both.
Who understands duration better than those for whom enforced passivity is an occupational hazard?
Your passivity is your way of feeling in control of a seemingly uncontrollable situation.
And that kind of high-stakes political argument is won by action, not passivity.
More than one boyfriend has dropped him thanks to his passivity and emotional unavailability.
In Ferguson's opponents the anticipation of erratic behavior can inspire hesitance and even passivity.
Dictatorships are built on the control of information and the passivity of its citizens.
So it's not passivity or some kind of technophobia that gives me pause here.
Such passivity may be an acceptable strategy in peacetime; it is reckless in crisis.
Streaming's passivity is different from linear TV, but in the end, it's still passive.
Like Ms. Craig in "Company," Ms. Clarke finds the pulsing dynamic in surface passivity.
I hid behind the pain of a relationship that ended badly, to justify my passivity.
Unfortunately, Thailand's economic policymakers also exhibit some of the macroeconomic passivity that once paralysed Japan.
All too many of his followers reflect his intellectual passivity and his knee-jerk alienation.
No, the default posture for this endangered being in moments of crisis is polite passivity.
"X," Susan Sontag calls it in her journal — "the scourge" — her despised agreeableness and passivity.
Facing the ineffectiveness, passivity and corruption of government authorities, civil society ultimately took the reins.
So much work, this active passivity — but I never considered kissing any of them first.
Our conditioned passivity leaves a vacuum that male narcissism fills with its version of us.
Ostapenko, 20, said she rued moments of passivity that allowed Sharapova back into the match.
She accepts the entire experience of becoming an elderly writer's girlfriend with a pristine passivity.
With all the activism in the world, it's difficult to connect to Love Is Dead's passivity.
Of course, listening is a skill that's often associated with women — including Hillary Clinton — and passivity.
And will congressional Republicans' passivity toward Trump change now that their legislative agenda is in freefall?
What escalated the injury of cancer for me was the passivity medical protocols produced or required.
The current approach of passivity that the United States has taken toward Venezuela is not enough.
In contrast to Lawrence's stagnant passivity, Daniel is out there doing things as a record producer.
But for as well as it sold, Saturday's title fight will be remembered for Thurman's passivity.
Indeed, many of us believe that Obama's worst foreign policy mistake was his passivity in Syria.
Rang De Basanti resonated with audiences because it urged action and thought over passivity and disdain.
The curators have also pushed against audience passivity by programming numerous events, from talks to performances.
But something about the scene, and the passivity of the non-white figures in it, sits uncomfortably.
Why, then, do we insist upon viewing fear and its attending actions as an expression of passivity?
Instead, they counted on passivity from teachers—the large majority of them women—through attack after attack.
Mass shootings are a violent epidemic that have been met with fatal passivity for far too long.
Aptly, for a book about an antihero, "dem" winds its plot not through action but through passivity.
One of several culprits behind congressional passivity regarding the use of military force is the American people.
The Legislative and Executive Branch should put aside passivity and partisanship and finally modernize our immigration laws.
When the scene ends with Brittany's having a seizure, Brooke and Jay look on in distressed passivity.
In this week's "Filter," that combination of confusion and passivity gets Henry into one seriously freaky situation.
This can lead to a resigned passivity, meaning that certain tests and treatments aren't offered or pursued.
For a moment, we froze, eleven of us, hoping our passivity would bring the moment to an end.
" As a result, he said, the government has "drifted into a mindset of pessimism, passivity, fear, and victimhood.
Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
Or rather, why is passivity so taboo or undesirable that we want to project it away from us?
Shortly thereafter, 51 current U.S. diplomats protested the Obama administration's passivity in the face of atrocities in Syria.
Strategic passivity, waiting for the Catalan challenge to collapse under its own weight, is no longer an option.
Spinning our own legends can take us down a dark hole of nostalgic passivity, if we let it.
Fear, passivity, aggression, suffering — Ms. Abakanowicz stayed true to her themes, leaving viewers to draw their own conclusions.
Don't be fooled by their wide-eyed cuteness, their passivity, or their vegetarianism: Deer kill, injure, and maim.
Second, is there any reason to think the factors that led to this relative passivity are no longer operative?
But Ms. Bullock is magnetic as a figure of confused passivity, a woman manhandled by the forces of history.
But the violence in Rakhine has reached such an unconscionable level that there can be no justifying continued passivity.
The critical faculties involved in confronting and contemplating complex art are reduced here to a state of infantile passivity.
"The legislative and executive branch should put aside passivity and partisanship and finally modernize our immigration laws," Oklahoma Sen.
These towns aren't where anybody is headed, only where they end up, by mistake or misfortune or simple passivity.
The reason for this passivity goes, I think, to a second failure: We wrongly treated Trump as a farce.
He shared her revulsion at France's passivity in the face of fascism and was organizing those of like mind.
And while purging the administration of troublemakers has a certain logic to it, it also encourages staff-level passivity.
Where Kushner's masterpiece called for movement, urgency, and great work together, Lopez offers a retreat, a backward-gazing passivity.
But United States passivity implies one less counterweight in a region that needs as many as it can find.
Julie's passivity shifts the emphasis from the play's title character to John and his mother, Christine (Patrice Johnson Chevannes).
For Tyler Gregory, neither the behavior of the protesters nor the passivity of the organizers came as a surprise.
But they can also trick us into thinking we're doing something, so they can kind of lull us into passivity.
This is clearer than ever in "Bloom," where he sings, in a delicately intimate and sometimes urgent tone, about passivity.
How it happens: It's not always an intentional discrimination against people with criminal histories, but "passivity and unintentionality," Katcher says.
It simultaneously resents being criticised for its passivity, wants to preserve its doctrinal purity and absolutely loves all the attention.
It fits nicely into the narrative of Sansa surviving by relying on "strategic passivity," as Vox's Aja Romano described it.
The party cannot be lulled into passivity and implicit racialization by a popular figure, as occurred during the Reagan era.
The other original picnic-goers quietly remain behind, sipping their wine without seeming to comprehend the consequences of their passivity.
Women of color are most frequently ignored, and Asian-American women frequently subjected to stereotypical expectations of silence and passivity.
The couple wanted children but Pat was apparently infertile; in her passivity and shame she never pursued the possible remedies.
Embarrassed, perhaps, by their passivity, Justice Department officials recently pledged to take a more aggressive approach to white-collar crime.
It's a statistic about passivity, which is just what a democracy in the era of Trump can no longer afford.
It is variably polluting industries, tepid or two-faced politicians, our own political passivity, and even the laws of physics.
"Their continuous passivity is now positively affecting Facebook's bottom line," the group's co-chair, Sarah Miller, said in a statement.
Whether or not he entirely deserves what he eventually gets, his complacency and passivity set him up for a fall.
Especially after the election of President Trump, she found herself "stumped" as she tried to resist the play's implicit passivity.
His passivity in the face of it was exceptional; it was as though he was willing it to take him.
This explains our passivity toward the aforementioned exposures with rapid onset effects and provides plenty of time for personal decontamination.
Worse still, his passivity could alienate many Americans whose resentment of Iran has never abated since the 1979 hostage crisis.
Assertive people strike a careful balance between passivity and aggression (that is, they never lean too far in either direction).
Katja, who has already traveled a path from wildness to domestic stability, struggles with the enforced passivity of violent bereavement.
What makes Candy Crush work as a game is the varying levels of passivity and concentration you can sink into it.
The active and independent nature of the amazons is considered barbaric by the ancient Greeks who expect passivity from their women.
Both Shevchenko and de Randamie caught Holm overextending with easy counter punches and she was reduced to complete passivity by both.
Driver's performance serves as a masterclass in making passivity and inertia into drama and profundity — for an actor, it's practically alchemy.
Ms Stephens's approach, which has been criticised for its passivity, offers a possible route to success for these less-aggressive women.
It also included a friendly waving emote in the game's original release back in September to let players nonverbally communicate passivity.
In "Ripe," what we start to see clearly, if we pay close attention, is that the passivity is a huge tool.
But today the sense that America is pursuing a noble mission in the world has been humbled by failures and passivity.
Fortunately, this has now changed, as the period of Congressional passivity the country experienced these last two years is mercifully over.
On one hand, Asian rap actively fights the "model minority" tag, the passivity that Asians have been branded with in America.
Such calculated passivity speaks not only to a lack of intellectual curiosity but a certain lack of connection to the law.
So did the relative passivity of law enforcement whose failure to anticipate violence and prevent disorders would be repeated on Saturday.
And that itself may have enabled an American passivity that helped the disease to get and spread here to begin with.
It's not that they want violence, but that they feel that they are being told to respond to aggression with passivity.
"Finally Europe has been forced to discuss an Italian proposal," he said, citing the outcome as an end to Italian passivity.
" And this anxiety, she says, will mount if we postpone or ignore expert counsel: "Passivity and inaction will make fear grow.
Twin City locals might describe their home-town temperament as a genial passivity combined with a fondness for the last word.
Come on, G.O.P., your passivity and denial are allowing a dangerous egomaniac to wreak havoc on our country and the world.
Do we have a responsibility to avoid narratives of blame and despair, lest they stoke our sense of hopelessness and passivity?
Bottigheimer argues that for the Grimms, silence is both gendered and moral: Good women illustrate their virtue through their silence and passivity.
When it comes to how most people travel and dine — Bourdain's two main methods of interaction — passivity is not a popular attitude.
Would I have been one of the many, many people who helped him, through passivity and fear, to hurt so many women?
Some observers root them in Mrs Merkel's upbringing in East Germany, where verbal ambiguity and passivity could keep one out of trouble.
The Trump administration's passivity on Syria seems to be one of the only Obama-era legacies the current US president has embraced.
But the interplay of forces in Julie's life is subtle, as is the balance, in her own temperament, between decisiveness and passivity.
"In an era of passivity, fake reality and meaningless violence, what is it really that we should look up to?" he wrote.
They're standing up against the extreme racism of the administration and the G.O.P., as well as the passivity of the establishment Democrats.
Quintana, Froome's main rival, looked comfortable on the climbs but never attacked and his passivity at the top of Peyresourde cost him dearly.
Aldous Huxley, on the other hand, warned of an onslaught of news, real or fabricated, that reduced its consumers to passivity and egotism.
But I have to admit, I'm proud of Frieda — who has been known for her passivity in the past — for standing her ground.
So now it is a question of response, and action, rather than the passivity of just hoping you can sit this one out.
Therapists then help patients break free of the bonds of their inertia and passivity by helping them re-engage in normal, everyday activities.
Trump's inflammatory rhetoric masks a surprising passivity allowing others to rush in—Russia in Syria, Iran in Iraq, and Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
The second "three mountains high" takes the action of her verbs, but its passivity is a comedown from the grandeur it first suggested.
Mr. Armitage is just as good, capturing the passivity of a man who both resents and enjoys being led by a streamlined bulldozer.
Each of these characters delivers a soliloquy in which they describe their exploitative relationships with Hester, for whom passivity is a conditioned reflex.
It's also true that Syria was Obama's greatest foreign policy failure, and I repeatedly criticized his passivity as hundreds of thousands were killed.
It ignores his real lineage, the great literature of passivity, failure and refusal: Melville's Bartleby, the novels of Robert Walser and László Krasznahorkai.
Indeed, if nihilistic forms of violence are the work of a reactionary mind, part of what's required is overcoming passivity in thought. 10.
Silence, passivity, or quiet murmurs of disapproval won't win you any awards and won't help differentiate between you (The Good) and them (The Bad).
He falls in with a pimp, almost out of sheer passivity, and becomes embroiled in the pimp's dispute with his girlfriend—a "Moor," i.e.
Over three rounds Miocic drew out Nelson's money punch, punished him for throwing it, and kept the heavyweight contender paralyzed between exhaustion and passivity.
The passivity of women is blown away; the bright colors and nudity favored by the Western painters give way to the sobriety of monochrome.
Republicans must account for their own passivity when it comes to the president's words, and for their tolerance of intolerance within their own ranks.
All Rooney has done is take that familiar language and alter it a little, and by doing so, emphasized the passivity of the lock.
Bruno, whose passivity and lack of curiosity suggest a child much younger than nine, never asks why he is forbidden to cross the fence.
Zama, a man as impetuous as he is stuck, resembles other existentialist antiheroes as he swings between spellbound passivity and sudden lunges into action.
Ms. Wiazemsky and Mr. de Maublanc maintain a kind of Bressonian passivity in enacting the dank, entropic spiral that sucks their characters ever downward.
Up until now, Rory's passivity and yearning for the approval of all the men in her life has kept her repeating these relationship cycles.
If passivity was their primary problem Sunday, they will need more Green-related passion for Game 4, less California cool, to match the Thunder's combustibility.
But Ms. Behrs finds the frightened passivity within Karla's aggression, and she keeps us on her character's side without even asking us to like her.
That's why I argued in my column a week ago that President Obama's passivity on Syria was his worst mistake, a shadow over his legacy.
One of the reasons that "many Western readers find so much contemporary Korean fiction to be unpalatable," he writes, is the passivity of its narrators.
What is the reason for Canberra's passivity and complacency and what can the Trump administration do to drag Australia and others in from the sidelines?
Much of their anger is directed at Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who they accuse of passivity at a time of heightened violence.
Women's bodies are never culturally neutral, and Yeong-hye makes the objectification explicit, registering her resistance the only way she knows how: with unrelenting passivity.
In the fight against depression and passivity, which are often symptoms of the condition, care givers also try to stimulate residents with activities like dancing.
It will try to apply that pressure to weaken the Euro-American alliance and induce passivity in the face of Russian aggression against Eastern Europe.
The triumph of creation over passivity, of being the observer rather than the observed, has been the consistent story arc of women in Western art.
Paul's passivity gives the movie a leisurely rhythm unusual in both science fiction and satire, the two genres that "Downsizing" nods toward without fully embracing.
And yet Bush's failure to intervene, or even realize that he had that option, speaks volumes about our collective tendency toward passivity in these situations.
So, too, is the passivity of congressmen who spent much of the past six years denouncing the previous president for his imperial use of executive orders.
The anachronistic quality of the show's hyper-gendered world of manly activities and feminine passivity is part of what allows it to be enjoyable as camp.
Yet the combination of passivity and partiality in the Trump administration's response to this crisis also reflects its broader lack of interest in solving problems abroad.
On the other hand, its central point, that Facebook's willful passivity in the face of most things enables its worst actors, seems hard to argue with.
"[T]he dynamic of passivity and complicity with state strategies of abuse... is being repeated in Myanmar to an alarming level," it notes in its conclusions.
Another precursor to the female OS is the telephone operator, a position that was almost always filled by young women due to their compassion and passivity.
Dissident Quakers impatient with their faith's passivity, they shipped to New York from England in 1774 and sailed up the Hudson, reaching Hancock nine years later.
In an interview with Business Insider, Callamard talks about the passivity of democracies and her hope that the murder of Jamal Khashoggi will still be solved.
"A scheme offense must be based on active falsification or concealment, and not merely passivity or silence," she added, citing previous court cases about false statements.
She does this by having Faye adopt a stance of radical passivity, listening to the stories of everyone she meets while keeping her own largely untold.
Mr. Mollen criticized the captain in charge for "passivity" and "questionable judgment" in ordering officers to remain outside the gym as a chaotic scene developed inside.
Sister Johanna's passivity — both forced and otherwise — can be frustrating, particularly in moments of crisis, when one longs for her simply to act, ignoring the consequences.
But, as we moved into previews, I felt that I had cured the passivity in Daisy and allowed her to bring the two women together herself.
The attitude has always been that his wanting defense doesn't matter quite as much because of his aggression forcing errors and passivity against even top notch opponents.
And we are supposed to believe that racist feelings dwindle into passivity simply because the thugs cannot access Facebook for a few days or maybe a week?
The archetypal story of assault, Kipnis is quick to point out, rests on an assumption of feminine passivity, where the asymmetry of power only goes one way.
Most streaming services encourage passivity; they want you to sit back and turn over hours to your life to the screen, without having to search too hard.
Surely Bongwan, with his potentially toxic blend of vanity, self-pity, passivity and guile, fits the profile of a recognizable and infamous type of lousy media man.
And yet we are stuck in a moment of passivity, tolerating incremental progress while long-term societal burdens persist and our fellow Americans struggle to thrive. Why?
But his passivity means that when he finally registers the full extent of Medea's payback, it's hard to respond with the dazed, horrified wonder the moment demands.
On the other hand, certain "warm" gestures — such as offering to take notes in a meeting — can sometimes convey submissiveness or passivity, which may not be ideal.
That is not to take away from what he has been able to do, more experienced men than Tybura have been battered into complete passivity against Werdum.
Common for most of them is the pleasant sense of defeat you feel after a sandwich cake session, which forces you into a fetal position of passivity.
Following a long-established tradition of ethnographic photography, but abandoning that tradition's scientific passivity and applying instead his unique approach to portraiture, Penn purposefully engaged with each subject.
When our daughters dress in their princess regalia, they are not attempting to be sexual objects or resigning themselves to domestic passivity — they're asserting an ancient feminine force.
"The 'strategic patience' touted by this administration is a ridiculous euphemism for passivity and paralysis that invites further aggressive actions by Russia and other international pariahs," Nunes added.
Like Caine in the 1970s television series "Kung Fu," Hong walks the earth with a strange passivity, the surrealism of his surroundings sometimes arresting yet too often static.
Despite the name, the pressure applied so far is nowhere close to the maximum, but it has been a dramatic departure from the passivity of the Obama administration.
At times their defiance has resembled something more like passivity: Shortly after graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1994, for example, Fujimoto decided he would do nothing.
Brassy Tuca — introduced as "friend, hero, connoisseur of snacks" — reveals a more melancholy, self-doubting side, and there's real nuance to the way Bertie confronts her learned passivity.
The judges ruled that there was not sufficient evidence of violence or intimidation, and they noted what they said was the passivity of the victim during the assault.
"Mourner" was written as a series of monologues, in which the title character exposes, by self-flagellating degrees, his own craven passivity and complicity in a corrupt world.
President Donald Trump prides himself on going where none of his predecessors dared to go, taking actions he believes serve America's national interest where other presidents' passivity failed.
Just after the Americans criticized the passivity of Europeans, the central government appointed Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch, the top Austrian diplomat to Belgrade, as a special envoy to Kosovo.
The evolution of Tim and Maud's relationship entails a fatal passivity all around: You can imagine the BBC depiction in muted grays and greens, with much inaudible mumbling.
Likewise, all Americans — the news media included — need to be prepared to examine the national credulity or passivity that's led to the longest conflict in modern American history.
But the academy guidelines, he noted, exempt video chat, which is inherently interactive and doesn't involve the same sped-up pace, overstimulation or passivity as, say, watching cartoons.
In The Society of Spectacle, Debord argues that spectacle — "the sun which never sets over the empire of modern passivity" — can be expressed through propaganda, entertainment, or iconography.
It's strange, then, given its role as the architect of programmatic passivity, that Netflix is handing back the reins via choose-your-own-adventure experiences it's calling "interactive content."
But when Axios asked a Time spokeswoman if the Koch passivity was written into the equity commitment letter or any other relevant documents, she told us to call Meredith.
The first thing you see off the fifth-floor elevator is a group of carved marble female nudes, most of them classic 19th-century emblems of chaste-white passivity.
He lends roiling, at first barely detectable energy to the seeming passivity of a man who, on occasion, finds himself crying for reasons he cannot (nor wants to) explain.
I mention her passivity here because that is the very quantity that, in the end, keeps me from endorsing the otherwise highly salubrious co-working experience with full breathlessness.
The passivity from many voters that allowed Trump to get elected, even as he said terrible things about many Americans, has given way to a new energy and activism.
"Encouraged by lawmakers' passivity, the president is taking the same approach to 2020 that he took to 2016," a subheadline on Jurecic's May article for The Atlantic put it.
But Olof makes it plain that he has no intention of ending his marriage, so Ester once again persuades herself that her lover's passivity is a prelude to action.
It's that the overall American approach of passivity, and arguably mild authoritarian envy, is making it harder for democratic countries around the world and civil society organizations to respond.
He raised his arms for me to pull his shirt up and off, and I felt the mood shifting already, it lightened as his passivity became a game almost, his passivity and my insistence as I struggled with the buckle of his belt, the button on his jeans; I could feel him almost smile as I kissed him, as he answered me back more in his kisses, his tongue pressing against mine.
The covert missionary might be troubled by the "passivity" or "acquiescence" of local Christians and other religious minorities when it comes to sharing their faith -- and maybe for good reason.
This automator-friendly passivity, in turn, has found a happy synchronicity in the media's penchant for dramatizing science fiction tropes apparently come to life, and voilà—the robots are coming.
" As one study explains, "The reasons for failing to prepare for retirement are, in part, related to the traditional roles of women in society, roles emphasizing inferiority, dependency, and passivity.
If this passivity continues into 2017, Democratic voters will face a terrible choice: remain aboard a sinking ship, or take leap of faith (or desperation) into dark and uncharted waters.
But the surefire way for Trump or Cruz to become president is for those of us who oppose them to assume they won't and, through our passivity let it happen.
Christina Merker-Siesjo, who runs Yalla Trappan, a social enterprise for migrant women in Rosengard, a refugee-heavy district of Malmo, says Sweden's generous benefits can induce passivity among newcomers.
It's a strange logic, but it works perfectly inside the matrix of gendered power, in which women are supposed to be empowered by passivity, ruling the domestic sphere like goddesses.
Liberal passivity—tolerating intolerance, reasoning with insanity—has unquestionably played a role in the rise of Donald Trump and the new, increasingly dangerous form of white supremacy that he's inspired.
Reacting to the more recent attacks, the rights groups Amnesty International, Front Line Defenders, Human Rights Watch and Freedom House published a joint letter in June condemning the government's passivity.
I had felt so powerless in my body for such a long time that by then there was a comfort to be found in passivity, in going through the motions.
"In the long run, General Sharif will be remembered for escalating the war against antistate terrorists that had been emboldened by almost a decade of Pakistani passivity," Mr. Zaidi said.
There's a risk in writing straightforward, first-person prose about muted passivity, namely that such prose can begin to exemplify it, especially next to the more beautifully descriptive sentences here.
" He accused Mr. Buttigieg — "and the media that fetes him" — of subscribing to the mistaken notion "that the path to defeating Donald Trump lies in a form of corrupt passivity.
While the book skewers Jessup's passivity, however, it does little to suggest viable modes of engagement under the Windrip regime, short of abandoning home and family and fleeing to Canada.
In its respect for Mapplethorpe the artist, or maybe because of something less salutary, the movie hogties itself into passivity, never bothering to turn Robert into any kind of character.
Perhaps this is to suggest the passivity with which we receive our daily deluge of images, or that a robust phenomenological world has been replaced by a series of little screens.
Repelled by Britain's passivity in the face of fascism, disgusted by the suffering of the depression years, these gilded, idealistic youths turned to Communism as undergraduates at Britain's most brilliant university.
When you consider that the side effects of the lobotomy — tractability, passivity, docility — overlap nicely with what many men considered to be ideal feminine traits, that disparity is perhaps not surprising.
Ngannou already has the hard part sorted: he is difficult to take down, so learning to conserve his energy without going into full on passivity is the next order of business.
Unlike chronically lonely people, those who are situationally lonely — a good example is a first-semester college student who is removed from her friends and family — haven't sunk into learned passivity.
Mr. Obama's passivity in the face of provocations and his failure to enforce the "red line" in Syria led Russia, China and other adversaries to seek new gains at America's expense.
Such a plan, however, would require UBI to seek shareholder approval because of the so-called passivity rule limiting a company's ability to make moves that could hinder a takeover bid.
He had been equally distressed by what he saw as American passivity in the face of the beatings of Jews and the burning of synagogues in Nazi Germany before the war.
Each vignette also featured a different response from the woman following an explicit sexual invitation, displaying varying levels of consent, refusal, or passivity, exhibited through nonverbal, verbal, or combined verbal/nonverbal behavior.
It's a story about a girl whose passivity and meekness in the face of abuse is rewarded by a fairy godmother who hands her over to a man, goes the usual criticism.
For many veteran market observers, the irresistible question is whether, and how, the lopsided preference for passivity is creating anomalies in how the market acts – and whether they can be exploited somehow.
A key trait of Sansa's passivity is that it doesn't extend to a policy of nonviolence — she's perfectly willing to let other people fight for her, if they're willing to do so.
" Aside from helping enforce the emotional work of smiling and being cooperative, the guest role also enforces passivity by "rendering any complaining or self-assertion by temporary workers on assignment as inappropriate.
The law, due to come into force on July 1, stopped short of making expressed consent a condition for consensual sex but stressed passivity was not a sign of agreeing to sex.
B: Dr. Rajan, when you add on the increases in interest rates there's no turning back on the amount of money which has gone into passivity, into ETF index funds et cetera.
The corollary to white innocence is white passivity, the feeling that what one's ancestors did was so messed up that it couldn't possibly make a difference where one eats a barbecue sandwich.
Trump has adapted in part with passivity; according to the Partnership for Public Service, he has not even nominated candidates for a quarter of the 743 top administration jobs requiring Senate confirmation.
Beyond Benghazi, American officials said that in time, the general grew angrier at what he saw as the Obama administration's passivity in dealing with worldwide threats — from Sunni extremist terrorism to Iran.
"Passivity towards the occurring cyberattacks only encourages Russia to be more aggressive — and it will," said Jarno Limnell, an expert in military science and professor of cybersecurity at Aalto University in Finland.
But instead of being ground down into inactivity and passivity, they are sparked by an impulse do something, anything—even acts of self-destruction—to react to the discomfort and dodge the pain.
Richard's plan was simple: the only way to overcome Ezekiel's passivity would be to force his hand emotionally, so Richard and Daryl would attack a small group of Saviors to get their attention.
But no one involved with the deal will say that the promise of passivity is codified in anything beyond press releases, and the prospect of a strong financial return is anything but certain.
It is the most powerful way to signify the complex entanglement of subjectivity, facts, ideas, intentional and unintentional actions, indifference and, passivity, which come together in a fatal weave of atrocity and destruction.
As Megan Garber explained in a 2016 piece at the Atlantic: Many [rom-coms] assume a fundamental passivity on the part of women, and, relatedly, a fundamental assertiveness on the part of men.
Back to other broadsides against you, Joan Didion claimed your books, post-Watergate, have a "scrupulous passivity" to them, and that you wrongfully fail to draw conclusions and make judgments in your investigations.
And if no one is likely to approach the melancholy comic genius of Barbara Harris, the original star, Ms. Errico gets more out of Daisy than the passivity of the role might suggest.
Mr. Kelly and others in a similar living situation insist that they do not stay together out of passivity, inertia or, necessarily, economic imperative, though in some instances codependency cannot be ruled out.
"[T]he philosophical underpinnings of the word existential invite us to pause, shake off any pessimism or passivity, and ask: What choices do we make in the face of our challenges?" said Kelly.
On the first of her many "school strikes for the climate," Ms. Thunberg camped outside the Swedish Parliament for days, pamphlets in hand, forcing us to reckon with the consequences of our passivity.
When he considered Spain, Italy, and Greece, where painful austerity measures had led to widespread street protests and the rise of populist parties, Pinto was struck by the passivity of his home country.
As Massimo Pigliucci explained in "How to Be a Stoic," Stoicism is very much a practical philosophy of life that promotes social engagement and a genuine concern for others, not resignation and passivity.
But that would require the press to acknowledge the inherent flaws—passivity, narcissism, sycophancy, the urge to cling to "objectivity"—that stand in the way of it telling the government to go fuck itself.
Other Hamas figures have made the same argument in recent weeks, distinguishing between "nonviolent" resistance as pursued by Hamas and the "peaceful" strategy of the Palestinian Authority—which they associate with passivity and surrender.
Trump's passivity will cost lives, but we can still make preparations before hospitals risk becoming overwhelmed by a pandemic that is both more contagious than the seasonal flu and apparently many times more lethal.
At the heart of women's empowerment lies the demand for a more robust global sisterhood, one in which no women are relegated to passivity and silence, their choices limited to sewing machines and chickens.
In fact, one of the film's best moments is musical, when teenage Chiron, finally pushed into anger instead of passivity, is headed to get his revenge on the bully who's made his life miserable.
And the power of Mr. Brizé's film — and of Ms. Chemla's quietly volcanic performance — lies partly in the way ordinary disasters erupt in Jeanne's life, at once challenging her passivity and emphasizing her helplessness.
It is curious that a movie set against a backdrop of black resistance and rebellion — however inchoate and self-destructive its expression may have been — should become a tale of black helplessness and passivity.
The Riyadh summit showed that the "passivity" of Rouhani's government "has emboldened the enemies of Iran," wrote Hossein Shariatmadari, editor-in-chief of Kayhan, a newspaper closely associated with security hardliners who opposed Rouhani.
Republican hawks, such as Senator John McCain, who have been appalled both by America's passivity over Syria and Mr Trump's chumminess towards Mr Putin, may now see him in a new and more flattering light.
Liveright; 288 pages; $27.95 and £20 The pogrom in Kishinev in 1903 became a byword for anti-Semitic violence for Jews everywhere, its victims blamed variously for their passivity and for having resisted their attackers.
Some viewers have pushed back on the film, citing Ally's "lack of agency," but I've always read this supposed passivity as the reality of becoming subsumed into an abusive relationship, how it consumes your identity.
The grades of Brexit are measured in the size of that cost: from the economic and thus social meltdown of a totally autarkic no-deal to the dignified-but-diminished passivity of a Norwegian arrangement.
Sansa's survival is particularly unusual among the characters because throughout the show, she's chosen to utilize a kind of strategic passivity rather than taking an active role in the power grabs and machinations around her.
Political fear also relies upon bystanders, whose passivity paves a path for elites and their collaborators, and the targeted community of victims, who transmit didactic tales of fear among themselves, thereby increasing its reverberating effects.
In many of these countries an implicit agreement between governments and people has applied (and often continues to apply) which dictates that the price for strong economic growth is political passivity, to put it mildly.
Scorpio and Pisces have a lot in common—you're both receptive signs—and this week begins a time of action through passivity; of showing how you feel by deciding what you're not going to do.
The danger with Shay is her passivity: Irene is managing her sobriety and keeping her pimp, Rodney (Method Man), at bay, and Shay seems to fall into lesbianism, too, out of accommodation more than desire.
LAS VEGAS — After spending months in anxious passivity, staking their hopes on Joseph R. Biden Jr. and little else, moderate Democrats appear suddenly determined to fight for control of their party in the 2020 elections.
The effort has been underway for years and the decades and particularly under President Obama there was a just a shattering passivity that over-- that simply overtook not only the administration but our Department of Defense.
Counter combinations make the difference in high-level boxing matches—if you start throwing them at someone who is still mastering the rudiments, you have a great chance of overwhelming him and scaring him into passivity.
As consumers of culture, we are lulled into passivity or, at best, prodded toward a state of pseudo-semi-self-awareness, encouraged toward either the defensive group identity of fandom or a shallow, half-ironic eclecticism.
His personality has been dramatically affected; there is still some G-Man left in him – he knows he was a boxer and a champion – but the aggression has been replaced by a passivity, and often confusion.
A reaction to second-wave feminism as well as more distant events — the Industrial Revolution, the Vietnam War — the movement denounced what its leaders believed was a rise in "passivity" and a decline in male bonding.
Her passivity, as well as her beguiling exoticness, is an escape from whatever drudgery awaits these men back on land — the mermaid is a fantasy, yes, but also a way to explain the unexplainable in nature.
Jewish-owned newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post agreed, burying news of Hitler's Final Solution.. Hecht wrote furious columns for the short-lived liberal newspaper PM, excoriating the passivity of American Jews.
But here, they're not couched in bovine passivity but the active projections of narcissists eager to see their most flattering reflections in the enigmatic pronouncements of Gardener, played by Peter Sellers as a perfect blank slate.
But Enacting Stillness illustrates how, just as John Cage's experiments in silence can sharpen our sense of sound, artistic experiments in stillness and passivity can sharpen our sense of purpose when it comes time to act.
The ink staining the paper in different shades of black and gray does not show us the person's suffering; this is underscored by the passivity of the image and the fact we do not see any faces.
Her great power as Lady in Yellow comes from her sense of winking camaraderie with the audience, which grows throughout the show, drawing the viewers out of spectatorial passivity and "casting" them as a crowd of participants.
The court said the lengthy deadlock and the previous passivity of Swedish prosecutors in pursuing the investigation were arguments for setting aside the warrant, but there remained a strong public interest argument for it remaining in place.
Ms. Hudson's Shug exuded the weary, slightly resentful passivity of a sex object who knew she didn't have to work hard to reel in the suckers; it was only when she sang that she came fully alive.
In this late masterpiece, the heroines of Rhys's early novels — heartbroken, drunk, caught in complicated choreographies of passivity — are replaced by an angry woman with a torch, ready to use the master's tools to destroy his house.
The tone of "21 Up" is thus one of mild and slightly smug disapproval — of the haughtiness and complacency Apted finds at one end of the spectrum and the passivity and complacency he finds at the other.
Plus, she can't have felt much like being in the car with the two of us, and who could blame her after she'd tolerated a whole day of Juan Martín, not to mention me and my passivity?
Polls show that the majority of Israelis and Palestinians now both reject pursuing the Oslo Process, which lives on mostly in the rhetoric of Western leaders where it serves to rationalize their own passivity on the issue.
Charges of American "passivity" have been a common theme of late at international conferences, where diplomats, foreign policy analysts and journalists play what the French newspaper Le Monde called the "blame game" for the catastrophic situation in Syria.
The untitled song is a contemplative one that touches on topics ranging from the passage of time to how his celebrity has changed his life, and white passivity in the face of social justice issues which require action.
"Years of passivity and drift among U.S. policymakers have allowed the U.S.-China trade deficit to grow to the point where it is widely recognized as a major threat to our economy," Lighthizer wrote in 2010 congressional testimony.
Once a fund manager surpasses an ownership of about 5 percent, the Federal Reserve could come in and request a passivity commitment, preventing the shareholder from trying to influence operations at the company or starting a proxy fight.
One reason for the administration's relative passivity may be its desire to prevent any major escalation of the dispute after the ruling, including further land reclamation by China or the declaration of a new air defense identification zone.
Since his fundamental stance is passivity, Merwin's language can't feel as though it were summoned from too much effort of learning, or from casually gleaned perception or overheard conversation, which would concede the existence of actual other people.
" Mr. Worby said that the lack of diversity reflected "passivity by well-intended people of good will who don't necessarily see or understand how lack of action, or failure to be proactive, can be part of the problem.
In her prologue, Taddeo explains that she has been lately haunted by memories of her own mother's extreme passivity when it came to sex: "Sometimes it seemed that she didn't have any desires of her own," Taddeo writes.
That seems great for Democrats, but in fact it often lulls them into an uncreative passivity: They're with us on the issues, Democrats think, so all we have to do is discuss the issues and we're home free.
Hers is the book I'd recommend to those coming to the issue for the first time; the crisis becomes personalized through the stories of her patients and their parents, and through her horrified recollections of her initial passivity.
Rather than invite the audience to think about the difficulties of democratic governance at a time of peril, the filmmakers promote passivity and hero-worship, offering not so much a Great Man Theory as a great man fetish.
"We, LGBTIQ persons, fight every day for our existence, identity and love," said Branko Culibrk, an organiser, adding that passivity of institutions in Bosnia, where discrimination against minority groups is legally banned, had encouraged violence from homophobic groups.
That's part of the idea, of course — his main trait is passivity — but it doesn't make for a very good protagonist, especially next to Chau's character, who is a pragmatic spitfire, and Waltz's, who is an unmitigated weirdo.
"Years of passivity and drift among U.S. policymakers have allowed the U.S.­-China trade deficit to grow to the point where it is widely recognized as a major threat to our economy," Lighthizer wrote in 2010 congressional testimony.
But their refusal to let us remain at a comfortable remove is also part of what makes them ideal for New Year's Eve: Out with the old, in with the new, adventure required, passivity pretty much not allowed.
If Obama's passivity in the face of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) deployed in Syria in 28503 lends to Chamberlain comparisons, President Donald Trump's military action against Syria this week compares favorably to Winston Churchill, Chamberlain's effective wartime successor.
Openly addressing your brother-in-law's actions and your husband's passivity in the face of them are not easy things to do, but they must be done if you are to feel safe with your husband and his family.
It is easy to speculate, too, that France's passivity, that lack of ambition, might eventually prove its undoing, that in the final it will need to raise its game and will ultimately be unable — or unwilling — to do so.
By making himself seem impotent, even if all he really had was a tricky back, he was quietly subverting traditional gender categories, of the kind where action, decisiveness, thrusting forward are necessarily good, and retreat, passivity, flowering all feminine.
Although it was not at all a deliberate or feminist decision on her part, I still view my grandmother as a challenger of the general voicelessness and passivity of so many women of her generation, especially other Mexican women.
Her sorbet-colored hair and massive earrings spelling out "Murder" and "Kill," combined with a T-shirt that screams: "The Future is Female Ejaculation," are the perfect counterpoint to Stanfield's quiet (to the point of near-passivity) but impeccably timed humor.
Many women do not want to be defined, once again, by the very gender norms that have disadvantaged them from birth: passivity, selfless accommodation to others (especially men), meekness, reserve, being measured by looks rather than deeds and so on.
She argues that a "profoundly conservative, law-and-order spirit" has capitalized on the perpetual state of emergency to ramp up on-campus policing, multiply the rules that govern sexual behavior on campus, and enforce the passivity of the protected.
It's enough to make me wonder if my elementary school teachers had a point when they claimed TV stunted the imagination: for all the active possibilities VR allows, filling in every detail of an experience nudges me into personal creative passivity.
The American increased her intensity in the second set and took advantage of Garcia's passivity to storm 4-1 clear, with Williams breaking for a second time in the eighth game against a weary-looking opponent to level up the contest.
" In contrast, Butina lamented how the "social passivity" of gun owners in Russia had driven the country's "prohibitionist regulatory mayhem" to "egregious proportions," creating a situation in which self-defense was "often perceived by the legal system as a crime.
"The long, aching scandal that stained the previous two popes - Vatican passivity to clergy abuse cases - is the swamp Pope Francis faces," said Jason Berry, author of "Lead Us Not Into Temptation", a book about sexual abuse in the Church.
Indication for intervention:  Iran has already violated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in multiple ways—inter alia by having test-fired two ICBMs—while Obama has not initiated any snap-backs, passivity that had been predicted by JCPOA critics.
To resist complacency, let's take stock: In 2016, Obama's passivity and Republican intransigence may have allowed Russian cyberattacks to swing the presidency to Trump (there's no way to be sure, but that's what the forensic work of Kathleen Hall Jamieson suggests).
Simmons began the season as the presumptive first selection in the N.B.A. draft, but Duke's Brandon Ingram has closed the gap in recent weeks, as worries about Simmons's jump shooting and passivity have dogged his season, despite his eye-popping numbers.
Some fans perhaps mistook his message of acceptance for one of passivity, and so were surprised (or even angered) when Lil B took to social media to discuss race in America in blunt terms—with a focus on racial double standards.
He made it with new band members, including the young English singer Rosie Bones and the guitar player Carmen Vandenberg; its songs are full of passionate, if clumsy, protests and allegations about war, income inequality, oil dependency and consumer passivity.
Buddhism, or the version of it in American yoga studios and popular among spiritualists like Eckhart Tolle promulgate, begets a passivity that runs counter to the active, practical engagement that I am encouraging on the part of contemporary artists, myself included.
The closing scene of the novel is a scene of terrifying passivity: She lets a wraithlike man into her bed because she can't summon the energy to stop him, as if she has finally lost touch with her willpower entirely.
The case for impeachment is about self-dealing and self-enrichment as well as obstruction of justice, open indifference to and contempt for the lives of American citizens struck by disaster, as well as passivity in the face of foreign attack.
Instead, two months after the first American tested positive and as the number of confirmed cases inside the country soars past 22020,000, a decentralized governmental response has been scattered and uneven, a mix of action and inaction, urgency and passivity.
"I was not a particular fan of what the last administration did, which I would describe as relying on passivity, proxies and special forces," said Michael E. Leiter, who stepped down in 2011 as head of the National Counterterrorism Center.
The blank-slate passivity is partially due to the narrative sleight-of-hand Shyamalan employs; we learn about Casey's backstory through a series of escalating flashbacks, and the payoff is predicated upon her character remaining a cipher for as long as possible.
"Plainly the regulators are trying to send a message that their view of what constitutes passivity is far more restrictive than what some portfolio managers apparently believe," said Christopher Davis, a partner at law firm Kleinberg Kaplan who chairs its mergers practice.
One particular interview—where Munn speaks passionately about #MeToo, and her co-stars, Trevante Rhodes and Augusto Aguilera, remain largely silent—inadvertently summarizes the very same infrastructure of male passivity that has allowed sexual misconduct to thrive and fester in the entertainment industry.
Feinting in MMA can often be enough to freak out a counter fighter and put him into passivity, but against experienced strikers it is necessary to start sneaking strikes through after the feints to make it important that the opponent stay on guard.
All the man has attempted to accomplish during his presidential tenure, in spite of these incessant political and mainstream media head winds, is to revitalize America for the good of the American people after eight years of the past president's feckless passivity.
Though the word "leak" can connote passivity on the part of the person receiving the information, leaks often result from rigorous, shoe-leather reporting, by journalists who have spent time cultivating sources and building relationships with people at agencies or government organizations.
Niloo's father, one of the most exciting reasons to read this book — he's a dentist, an atheist and, above all, a hedonist, an exuberant devotee of opium and poetry and drink — feels terrible shame about his passivity in the face of Ahmadinejad's Iran.
As she sums up the social reality that she investigated: "Evangelical churches taught believers how to choose love over pain, happiness over suffering and gratitude over resentment...they strived to move migrants from passivity, vulnerability and distress into activity, power and health."
Leading Republican Presidential candidates have advocated killing the families of ISIS members, carpet-bombing parts of Iraq and Syria, and deploying American ground troops on a large scale; none of these proposals have elicited as much popular derision as Obama's perceived passivity.
You'll find more nuance in Ruth Wisse's book, "No Joke: Making Jewish Humor," which covers the same ground, but with a greater willingness to probe the ways in which Jewish humor made too much of a virtue out of weakness and passivity.
But these passages do run through all the things that would distress a self-willed 21st-century young woman thrust into the past, including corsets, reflexive racism, and expectations of demure passivity, and they should make a modern reader grind her teeth in sympathetic frustration.
While the temptation may be strong to choose the safety of quietness and passivity -- to pressure our loved ones and employees to self-censure -- it's vital for our democracy to let our voices be heard when our moral compass tells us something is wrong.
" Stuckless wrote she was moved by "all the voices that have been silenced over so many years" and the women and artists "who were paralyzed by the same fear that I felt, surrounded by colleagues who were intimidated into a culture of silence and passivity.
Although it is true that Thailand's population pyramid structure may have been similar to that of Japan in 1992, using that fact and the 1.7% expansion rate of private investment to come to a conclusion that the Thai government is adopting macroeconomic passivity is unwarranted.
With the 2017 presidential election flashing big on his radar screen, Mr. Hollande's rival and predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, did not even wait for the end of three days of national mourning before mounting a ferocious attack on what he saw as the government's passivity.
The unfortunate truth is that even though congressional Democrats have promised to resume their action on July 7, when the House of Representatives reconvenes, nothing will come of it unless concerned citizens shake off their passivity and mass in front of the Capitol building.
" What we've seen so far: "Instead, two months after the first American tested positive and as the number of confirmed cases inside the country soars past 10,000, a decentralized governmental response has been scattered and uneven, a mix of action and inaction, urgency and passivity.
It isn't until the very end of the season when Vincent—the best of the so-called good—begins to question his passivity and balks at the idea of getting in deeper in his dealings with the cops and pimps and mob bosses altogether.
If I were to try to draw a connection between your films, I would say they all have a theme of conformity and the individual struggle with an accepted, prevailing wisdom and a status quo that says conformity and passivity is a net positive for society.
The only way to combat the ignorance upon which such racism is founded it to acknowledge its existence, to educate ourselves about its roots, and then move to obliterate our own passivity and indifference toward the experiences of men and women of color in this country.
But sitting here also makes you wonder if Obama hasn't gotten so obsessed with defending his hand's-off approach to Syria that he underestimates both the dangers of his passivity and the opportunity for U.S. power to tilt this region our way — without having to invade anywhere.
The World Taekwondo Federation made the decision to make the move to the MMA-shaped ring as a way to speed up fights, give fighters more places to move, and get rid of the corners the traditional rectangle provided that could be used for retreat and passivity.
Mayorga described mediation "as re-experiencing the sexual assault," an ordeal marked by "extreme fearfulness, complete helplessness and eventually a sense of passivity where she would do anything just to be able to leave/escape/avoid revisiting the sexual assault by continuing the mediation," the lawsuit says.
My natural predisposition towards getting yeast infections, combined with my historically slutty behavior and extreme passivity in terms of telling my partners when something is going to give me a yeast infection, has caused me to have at least one per month for my entire adult life.
"Feminists have argued that men are expected to have body and facial hair to demonstrate 'virility', while women are expected to pluck and maintain these same areas as a sign of their sexual passivity and docility," says Hannah McCann, a lecturer in gender studies at the University of Melbourne.
This time around, Stefani wasn't necessarily appealing to young girls trying to figure out their own configuration of power and passivity as they grew up, but to the women who, post-children, post-marriage, post-divorce, mid-career, were trying to re-sort-out the same life experiences.
And why was passivity such an unworthy subject for literature when, in my own life and in the lives of my friends, it so often undergirded nearly every dramatic encounter — not an avoidance of story, but the thing at the center of every story that had to be negotiated.
Not since the McCarthy period during the Korean War have the elected members of one of our two great parties been so fearful of an energized segment of our population that they have chosen passivity over the defense of our basic liberties and the constitutional separation of powers.
And when we discussed the house together, looked for a piece of land, spoke to the architect, studied the plans, bought furniture and lamps and other things, the besetting passivity I fell into whenever I was with her left me, and I could at least be dragged along.
The rise of the phrase "OK boomer" mirrors the growing anger among young people at the older generation's passivity for the issues facing the world, not only today, but for the issues that young people say will be left to them to figure out once they become adults.
While the curriculum was developed by New Orleans officers and outside experts, its core principles are rooted in the work of Ervin Staub, a retired psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who knows as well as anyone the perils of passivity and the virtues of intervention.
His demeanor was calm throughout and there were none of the lurches from passivity to aggression that Supreme Court Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Cook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' Sen.
For instance, in Aaliyah's "If Your Girl Only Knew" (1996), a song in which she is the "other woman," TLC's "Red Light Special" (1994) which is a fairly graphic anthem for oral sex and maybe also has something to do with prostitution, began rejecting passivity in female sexual posturing.
The passivity of social media companies when it comes to stemming the spread of hate through its platforms has real-life consequences (for example, when (Maza was doxxed and harassed by fans of Crowder last year), and no amount of prevarication or distancing can stop the damage once its been done.
And in this case, that family consists of a mother who can only show her love through causing pain, a daughter who succumbed to that fatal care and a daughter who learned to leverage her mom's cruelty and her dead sister's passivity into a sick, self-serving form of sadomasochism.
Witnessing people in circumstances that have conspired to warp their sensory faculties and to reduce them to passivity, music therapists offer patients perhaps the only activity conceivable — that of listening — as a pathway to becoming sensate and thus incontestably attuned to the animating realization of still being alive and responsive.
I know the groups sought to shock well-meaning liberals out of passivity and into action, but I can't help but think of the shock it gave me and probably others who are worried about the day they or loved ones might be seized and forced into these terrible conditions.
Maybe her political passivity at this year's Super Bowl Halftime show shouldn't have been surprising—but after Béyonce took to the field last year with dancers donning Black Panther-esque outfits, many expected that Lady Gaga, who even has a track on Joanne called "Angel Down" about Trayvon Martin's murder, would say something.
The typical sufferer felt a ''tremendous pressure to be the aggressor in sex,'' expected ''conformity and passivity on the part of his woman,'' subjected his children to ''ludicrous role expectations'' and — in severe cases — restricted the ''use of color in his home and in his clothing'' in an effort to avoid ''womanish'' tones.
Sansa's passivity has allowed her to learn from her enemies, including Cersei and Littlefinger — the two people whose manipulation she expertly sidesteps in "Beyond the Wall": When Littlefinger urges her to use Brienne as a weapon against Arya, she appears to listen to his advice, then promptly sends Brienne away from Winterfell. Where?
But I think that there was something interesting, for me as a kid, in the idea that there might be something in the evil part of a person that gives them animation and life, that's necessary for them to be whole, and that there's something in pure goodness and passivity that's lacking.
But more than that, the event will also be attended by dozens of experts and policymakers from the US and Europe, who can be expected to not only express solidarity with our resistance movement but also to further press their own governments to end their passivity and do something to support our cause.
His buzzwords about technological change, his caution about Germany's debt, his unhurried approach to badly needed investment, the absence of any real "European awakening"—it all sums up not just the positive aspects of the current chancellor but also the negative ones, such as her passivity, her vagueness and her reluctance to risk unsettling reforms.
They bear none of the self-consciousness that comes from the male gaze, they wholeheartedly reject the passivity that is expected from female popstars, and they drag the listener kicking and screaming through the actual reality of heartbreak in painful detail, exposing the true brutality of grief in all of its furious, unapologetic glory.
And yet the United Nations Security Council has not seized on the emergency, and in my conversations with diplomats in New York on Wednesday, that passivity was laced with cynicism: If the Yemenis could survive the hardships of the past few years of war, some were saying, they would be fine for a bit longer.
The idea, Ms. Sheil said, was to connect the frustration in Beale's monologue — in which he inveighs against our passivity "while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be" — to the frustration Ms. Chubbuck must have felt as she read her final remarks.
Like its removed political oversights, Infinite's deliberations over the nature of games and the passivity or impassivity of writer and player feel largely self-interested—its two central preoccupations, simplistic moralizing and prodding at narrative form, leave you convinced that rather than moral, social, or human issues, Infinite is interested in sophomoric debates about video games.
This forced passivity in the face of injustice and cruelty is what I would actually see as one of the big strengths of PA. I think it works in a very similar way with my mod, where you are receiving dozens of prisoners for egregious offenses, and still have to accommodate them and put them to work.
If the too much woman is a cliché of femininity, so is the affectless, Botoxed one, and that is what its narrator increasingly comes to resemble: a woman who seals herself into a posture of bleak, chic passivity to avoid the risk of pain, of humiliation, of disappointment until she, too, begins to seem more pose than person.
America's passivity in other parts of the world under the Obama administration — from Russian troops flooding into Crimea, chemical weapons being used in Syria, and Iran expanding its proxies across the Middle East — likely emboldened Kim, who correctly calculated that the Obama administration would similarly not take serious steps to halt his development of nuclear weapons.
With a strategic hinterland across the notional border with Syria and faced with an Iraqi army unwilling to fight for mainly Sunni cities, AQI morphed into ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) and then into IS. It was given a helping hand by a feckless Mr Obama, already guilty of "passivity in the face of catastrophe" according to Mr Kilcullen.
The Obama administration has already adopted a policy of passivity in the face of Iran's regional aggressions and nuclear transgressions since the Iran nuclear deal (also known as the JCPOA) was announced last year; if this trend is strengthened by fears of escalation in superpower relations, a future administration is likely to find itself with its hands tied in the face of Iranian nuclearization in the years ahead.
In fact, it seemed to raise moderation itself to the status of moral principle, as the author displayed—in a time of campus protest and sharp, flashing rhetoric—a kind of scornful maturity: The fact is that the American intellectual has always lived at such a far remove from power that he has developed a peculiarly grim imagination of power, to which he can relate himself only in angry passivity.
Being the president of a social-justice foundation, Walker normally considered it his business to disrupt such hierarchical modes of thinking, but he also considered it his business to be sensitive to the differing requirements of other cultures, and, besides, he always liked to be a welcoming host, and so, gently buffeted by these conflicting impulses, he chose the middle path of benevolent passivity and stood, hands clasped, and smiled at the Kenyans as they circled his table.
The director of "Rogue One," Gareth Edwards, has stepped into a mythopoetic stew so half-baked and overcooked, a morass of pre-instantly overanalyzed implications of such shuddering impact to the series' fundamentalists, that he lumbers through, seemingly stunned or constrained or cautious to the vanishing point of passivity, and lets neither the characters nor the formidable cast of actors nor even the special effects, of which he has previously proved himself to be a master, come anywhere close to life.

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