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For David Pinner, the miserable protagonist of Nick Laird's Glover's Mistake, the internet facilitates the apotheosis of his passive-aggression.
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It was this kind of passive-aggression that had held me back from writing about the many racist remarks I got in Texas.
Mayhill Fowler: Bittergate: the Untold Story Behind the Story that Rocked the Obama Campaign 2010
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A third sister, Helen (Ally Sheedy), ascends nirvanic heights of passive-aggression as a successful screenwriter in Los Angeles.
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But I was lucky in having had no corollary for that kind of behavior in the context of my daily life where anger was usually expressed as depression or passive-aggression.
Insignificant Others Stephen McCauley 2010
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Even the injection of just a little good, old-fashioned passive-aggression can ginger up a scene no end.
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Even the injection of just a little good, old-fashioned passive-aggression can ginger up a scene no end.
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It was this kind of passive-aggression that had held me back from writing about the many racist remarks I got in Texas.
Bittergate: the Untold Story Behind the Story that Rocked the Obama Campaign 2010
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But then, in a culture-wide fit of passive-aggression, we turn our backs on Him by bombarding children with movies, television shows, and songs where materialism is climactically renounced and everyone learns the True Meaning of Christmas.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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What a nightmare for her to discover that Bill was just a more sophisticated kind of bully, one who engaged in passive-aggression, rather than full out assault.
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It was this kind of passive-aggression that had held me back from writing about the many racist remarks I got in Texas.
Mayhill Fowler: Bittergate: the Untold Story Behind the Story that Rocked the Obama Campaign 2009
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