How to use "passivity" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "passivity" in popular movie and book plots

  • He falls into passivity and depression.  - Bartleby (1976 film)
  • The event that breaks Gertie's passivity to her situation is the death of her youngest daughter, who is killed by a railroad car.  - The Dollmaker
  • Stringer wants to feign passivity until Omar re-emerges, but Avon is adamant that they need to kill Omar for the sake of street cred.  - Game Day (The Wire)
  • This disgust with Basini's passivity ultimately leads him almost off-handedly to stand up to Beineberg and Reiting.  - The Confusions of Young Törless
  • A kind of keenly analytical passivity is his most typical attitude.  - The Man Without Qualities
  • His every move outmatched, Arthur lapses into passivity on that front.  - The Inheritors (Conrad and Ford novel)
  • At the trial, the prosecuting attorney portrays Meursault's quietness and passivity as demonstrating guilt and a lack of remorse.  - The Stranger (novel)

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