(n.) Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The now 8th Earl of Lucan has treated such sightings with weary equanimity, once saying: “I get a little tired when former Scotland Yard detectives at the end of their careers get commissions to write books which happen to send them to sunny destinations around the world.
(2) New Yorkers demonstrated an excess of the equanimity for which they are known in reaction to the news.
(3) But again and again, I have been struck by the equanimity displayed by Athens.
(4) Richard Wiseman , a professor of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, who also makes cool videos for the web, has had his share of haters, and greets that with equanimity.
(5) Devon manages to maintain a cheerful impression of equanimity.
(6) "Oh yeah, those guys are great," he replies when reminded, with an equanimity that belies his ambition.
(7) He has accepted the realities of the commercial position with great equanimity - more than I would have done.
(8) As for Axelrod, the adviser famous for equanimity, ruffled appearance and a world-weary manner, it is a surprise that he wants to return to the campaign ring.
(9) The nut-nougat cream enjoys enormous popularity as a spread for bread so that even large food undertakings cannot face this development with equanimity.
(10) Some people handle potentially devastating news with equanimity, but for me it was the start of a full digestion of the grim truth, a process marked by nothing if not high anxiety.
(11) His eponymous foundation has raised more than $350m to fund research into Parkinson's and despite facing hurdles that would fell many – the Bush administration's opposition to stem cell research, for example – he has continued with determined equanimity.
(12) Yet parents are told their children are at risk, no one knows our names, and hospital administrators and medical staffs watch us come and go with equanimity.
(13) Given Mr Trump’s equanimity with other flaws in his history, we can only assume it’s a bombshell of unusual size.” Trump said in an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday that he would not overrule legal advice not to publicly disclose his tax returns before an audit is complete - including if the audit is not completed before November’s election.
(14) The singer has not spoken in detail about the prospect of swapping the stage for the assault course, but he will have pleased the South Korean authorities by accepting his fate with equanimity.
(15) The president is not really that powerful.” Toiling in the bowels of online muck has no discernible effect on Mikkelson’s equanimity.
(16) A rise in US interest rates will be met with equanimity across the world, argue the optimists, because everyone else is in better shape, if not growing quite as strongly.
(17) There’s an equanimity, an impermeability and a courage that you need.
(18) Her equanimity towards the director is calculated to defend her from a permanent position of victimhood.
(19) It’s just that I like the equanimity of living in my own zone.” He is suspicious of literary festivals, for all that he can pull in the crowds.
(20) Thus, both surgeon and patient may embark on this hazardous course with a much greater degree of security and equanimity.
Passivity
Definition:
(n.) Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.
(n.) The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia.
(n.) The quality or condition of any substance which has no inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(2) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(3) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
(4) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(5) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
(6) None of these MAbs showed any virus-neutralizing activity in vitro; however, mice passively immunized with the purified MAbs were protected from lethal infection by the JHM strain of mouse hepatitis virus.
(7) 3) The magnitude of K+ release is the ratio of two opposing mechanisms, a passive efflux and an active reuptake.
(8) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(9) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(10) In the appetitive passive avoidance task, only the substantia nigra lesion group exhibited a deficiency.
(11) YOH shifted the healthy subjects' mood towards feeling panicked, elevated systolic blood pressure and plasma prolactin concentrations, reduced digit symbol substitution, and induced drowsiness and passiveness.
(12) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
(13) To explain some of these results a theoretical model is presented to demonstrate that while short circuiting can block the passive ionic movement, it will cause an increase in the energy consumption of the system and introduce certain important changes in the ionic barriers and e.m.fs.
(14) Brazil and Argentina unite in protest against culture of sexual violence Read more The symbolic power of so many women standing together proves that focusing on victims does not mean portraying women as passive.
(15) Simultaneous atrial imaging and pulsed Doppler velocity measurement showed that passive atrioventricular flow occurred late in atrial lengthening and active atrioventricular flow occurred during atrial contraction.
(16) The first was a passive avoidance task in which the chicks were allowed to peck at a green training stimulus (a small light-emitting diode, LED) coated in the bitter liquid, methylanthranilate, giving rise to a strong disgust response and consequent avoidance of the green stimulus.
(17) The findings of respiratory and sensitivity tests suggest: (i) that passive smoking may trigger asthma attacks in subjects who suffer from asthma and (ii) that the airways of such subjects show increased histamine reactivity four hours after the passive smoke exposure.
(18) Fifty-seven strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolated from humans and pigs and producing thermolabile (LT) enterotoxin were used to ascertain the efficiency of the Biken test compared to the passive immune haemolysis test (PIH), considered as very sensitive for detecting that enterotoxin.
(19) The evolution with time of cardio-respiratory variables, blood pressure and body temperature has been studied on six males, resting in semi-nude conditions during short (30 min) cold stress exposure (0 degree C) and during passive recovery (60 min) at 20 degrees C. Passive cold exposure does not induce a change in HR but increases VO2, VCO2, Ve and core temperature Tre, whereas peripheral temperature is significantly lowered.
(20) Particularly, the passive mechanism concept to explain obstructive sleep apnea during REM sleep advocated by Remmers and Guilleminault has substantially contributed to the recent development of research activities in this field.