All 8 Uses of
passive
in
The House of Mirth
- Lily had no mind for the vagabond life of the poor relation, and to adapt herself to Mrs. Peniston she had, to some degree, to assume that lady's passive attitude.†
Chpt 1.3
- Sometimes she thought it was because Mrs. Peniston had been too passive, and again she feared it was because she herself had not been passive enough.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- Sometimes she thought it was because Mrs. Peniston had been too passive, and again she feared it was because she herself had not been passive enough.†
Chpt 1.3
- Gerty stood cold and passive.†
Chpt 1.14
- What if she now chose to exert the power which, even in its passive state, he had felt so strongly?†
Chpt 2.5
- She was weary of being swept passively along a current of pleasure and business in which she had no share; weary of seeing other people pursue amusement and squander money, while she felt herself of no more account among them than an expensive toy in the hands of a spoiled child.†
Chpt 2.6
- She had a sense of acquiescing in this plan with the passiveness of a sufferer resigned to the surgeon's touch; and this feeling of almost lethargic helplessness continued when, after the departure of the guests, Mrs. Fisher followed her upstairs.†
Chpt 2.6
- She knew in advance what form they would takeāthe gradual cessation of the inner throb, the soft approach of passiveness, as though an invisible hand made magic passes over her in the darkness.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(passive) accepting what happens without trying to take control or reacting strongly