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Перевод: passivity

[существительное]
пассивность ; инертность ; бездеятельность ; покорность

Тезаурус:

1. It is not merely the passivity but the subjugation of opinion.
2. Quite obviously the passivity of, say, looking at someone else's drawing is considerably less demanding than doing one's own.
3. The passivity of the wronged girl is a trait she shares with the hero of Guy Newell's Fox Farm (1922), a sensitive farmer abandoned by his go-getting wife after he has been blinded in an explosion.
4. Phoebe could remember no details, could recall only with an effort that was profitless, the numbing passivity that had fallen on her.
5. Both kinds of representation betray fears and fantasies about sexual passivity and sexual promiscuity: women then, and gay men now, are imagined to engage in a passive promiscuity which is really an unquenchable appetite for destruction; AIDS has "reinforced the heterosexual association of anal sex with a self-annihilation originally and primarily identified with the fantasmatic mystery of an insatiable, unstoppable female sexuality".
6. Sometimes they were a little lifeless, not with lethargy or simple weariness (they could be that, but then his whole body-language "drooped" accordingly), but with a specific withdrawn quality which, when taken with a certain passivity of the face, can be hard and unyielding: betokening a concern - even a resentment - in being examined in that particular way.
7. To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism, the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, with his dubious war record, by the present Pope, John Paul II (from Poland).
8. There is a general passivity, a loss of good conscience - "they must have been doing something very wrong there"; "we must have been wrong"; "I suppose these new ideas must be right"; "I suppose we have got to get used to them", etcetera, etcetera.
9. A horse's degree of tolerance, or passivity, as opposed to impatience and irritability, will be very important in relation to what we want to do with the horse.
10. A few of us may become angry, but most of us have to be pushed a long way before we abandon our normal passivity.
11. Benny Profane personifies the inertia of modern man, cultivating a passivity towards all experience, whereas Stencil only gains an identity through motion.
12. "This person, I thought, is what a woman should look like: this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing self-consciousness the very essence of femininity, the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother, sister, wife, daughter, the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic, the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance, the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet, napalms distant villages, pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence.
13. The overt expression of that passivity and self-condemnation is that a whole range of the voices of public opinion are on the side of what you and I call the criminals.