I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting but I try not to look like it
When you're a chill, laid back guy, you maybe have more pent-up frustration, anger, bitterness, than maybe somebody a little wilder would have.
On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.
Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?
The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think they would also see a deeper violence - the one that's not as showy or as immediately arresting, but kind of the more unsolvable violence that lurks underneath.
however, i can read hers- she'll be waiting to ambush you in class.
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
I think my cruelty hides beneath the surface a lot more than Sue Sylvester's.
The directors whose films scare me the most, are the ones who carefully hide the aggression in the background, and don't show it directly.