passiveness

And particularly when passiveness can enable challengers to the leadership of political Islam to make headway.

This silence, this passiveness on the part of their hitherto aggressive and turbulent gaolers was portentous.

Poetry stirs the Imagination, the Will, disturbs the passiveness that Beauty produces.

But a man's passiveness to a beloved object of our sex may not, perhaps, argue want of courage on proper occasions.

But passive architecture without help for its passiveness is unendurable.

The provisions, for those who require them, I do not object to, but the passiveness is fatally injurious.