The passive acquiescence of her nature was a blessing to them.

Hostility gave way to passive acquiescence, and acquiescence to active sympathy.

Did he always win and lose with the same passive acquiescence?

At best, there is passive acquiescence; at worst, open contempt.

To subside into passive acquiescence and watch the ripples again, would be the easier way.

There was a murmur, whether of approval or of passive acquiescence could not be told.

Now, however, all passive acquiescence was at an end.

The girl nodded her head in passive acquiescence.

Their admission of supernatural truths is much less an active consent than a cold and passive acquiescence.

But it does not mean helping the evil-doer to continue the wrong or tolerating it by passive acquiescence.

She could not have endured a passive acquiescence in her destiny, whatever was to be the end of it.

But still more serious was the passive acquiescence in the depletion of their slaves by excess of deaths over births.

I suppose that most prayers which ask that God's will may be done are prayers of passive acquiescence and resignation.

He could never have been in earnest before: he loathed and hated himself for his previous passive acquiescence to her fate.

It is not fatalism, or passive acquiescence in another's will- awillthat we have no part in forming and cannot reject.

So long as she had food and shelter, she could not make advances; she could not even go so far as passive acquiescence.