another verb. "Was eaten" versus "ate." And then to tell who did it if you're gonna give all the information you've gotta add a little "by" at the end. Now passivity comes in handy however when this whole paragraph's gonna be about the bone. And I don't mind telling you who ate it, but I'm not gonna start by putting the spotlight on the dog when the rest of the focus will be on the bone.
on which I feel more humble or yet at the same time more natural. I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment. Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts. Buy a paint box and have a try. It would be a sad pity to shuffle or scramble along through one's playtime with golf and bridge, pottering, loitering, shifting from one heel to the other, wondering what on earth
Suicide is said to leave survivors, the word used to refer to those of us left in devastated limbo. our silence and passivity only perpetuates.
And one of the concerns I have about the word mindfulness and the implications it might have for people is a kind of passivity , you know, or complacency. Like in a kind of immediate way, I was leading a meditation once, and we began with listening to sound
I've been talking about I might be moving. So it's not passivity .
Because when I was asked to be promoted to a director, I felt like all these boxes hadn't been checked yet. The third is passivity .
And they found that they report being relaxed and passive. And that passivity continues even after you've turned the TV off. And that's exactly what you want if your objective is to keep people from changing the channel.
that bone was still eaten and if the rest of the paragraph or report is about the bone then that's a good choice. There's another time passivity 's very useful and that's when we don't know who ate the bone. So, but we do know it was eaten. So, "Under the shade of a magnolia tree in Southeastern Alabama in 1938 the bone was eaten with great gusto." You see? It's useful when we don't know who did what the passive voice serves us well.
That was how I grew up. This sometimes really gets mistaken for passivity . And it has nothing to do with passivity .
This sometimes really gets mistaken for passivity . And it has nothing to do with passivity . This invitation and offering and surrender, all of which really fill this book, what it really has to do with
bothering you. That's not a call for passivity .
'Christ,' she thought, 'maybe it was something worse than a bug.' She spoke more loudly and precisely, 'Go to missed appointment.' The vertiginious backward sweep resumed. This time she watched in bewildered passivity . It had never occurred to her to wonder, 'how far back do these calendars actually go?' 1830s, 1820s, 1780s, 1770s, 1760s; the noise ceased abruptly and a page appearing, appeared displaying the week of 10th June 1754 and fixed itself on the screen.
Sure, yeah. So we have been giving out micro grants, so $1,000 for projects across the US for community builders and where is the point where it turns into passivity .
had some shit happen in my own life-- has been really the offering of some tools so that these aren't just idealistic notions. And it certainly isn't leading to a kind of passivity or complacency, but really some tools to help me see through kind of the myths I've been given,
My three P's are not the typical MBA positioning, packaging, pricing. It is about perfection, passivity , and pleasing. Those are things I've had to reprogram in my brain.
Haunted by feelings of guilt, he contacted the girl a few days later. He begged her to forgive him for cowardice and passivity . She told him bitterly that she could not accept his explanations.
them to write that the younger-most spiders are more or less addicted to this mode of transportation. An image of excited little animals packing their luggage that opened a small eruption on the consensus around the passivity of all this airborne movement. And led to a subsequent observation that ballooning spiders not only climb up to an exposed site -- a tree, twig,
Celsius and lo and behold next year it was cool by half a degree Celsius; there was more ice in the Arctic which meant more polar bears and the biologists called the cubs Mt. Pinatubo The health, health of natural infrastructure is too compromised for passivity . It requires engineering.
It caused me discomfort. I have to constantly remind myself-- because, remember, we always want to go into passivity .
As Nico Fridja notes, "Anger implies hope. Further, anger implies that fighting is meaningful; one is not reduced to mere passivity ." And I'm not arguing for tough love here. Suffering is not ennobling.
Because the most outrageous part here is that these corruptions, of course, were primed by the most privileged, but they were permitted by the passivity of the most privileged as
vanity publishing, which was sort of one of many minor, very minor bad little things, should not be confused with the almost inexplicable passivity of writers. These are two different
be done." They're saying, "Management recommends that we do something," right? Isn't that more typical in the work environment now? Great. We got over a, one problem in this society. So that's probably, well that's one of the rea, reasons teachers were telling you to stay away from passivity . The other thing is a passive idea, "The bone was eaten by the dog" always requires more words than an active idea. "The dog ate the bone." You hear it?