How To Use Docility In A Sentence

  • So teachableness is necessary and teachableness and docility are both included in prudence.
  • Some authors have proved the mildness and docility of the camelopard, while others represent it as incapable of being tamed. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
  • The trait that breeders of fancy mice wanted first and foremost was docility.
  • They who attempted to read the prophecy with accuracy were of opinion that the prophet had intimated that had the nation, even in this its crisis, consented to take him, the prophet, as its sole physician and to obey his prescription with childlike docility, health might not only have been re-established, but a new juvenescence absolutely created. Phineas Redux
  • At theological college, near Oxford, the docility of most of the wives of other students irritated Anna.
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  • Her docility had surprised him.
  • I know you; you are a coward, and you will submit to the yoke of family life with a lamblike docility. Letters of Two Brides
  • It's much more threatening to the status quo here, because there's a kind of docility that's expected of the American populace. Questions &Amp; Answers: Battlelines
  • submissiveness" and the light-heartedness of the French did not prevent their being also fickle; and their "docility" was varied by fits of violent quarrelling with their American neighbors and among themselves. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790
  • The camels ‘exhibited the most lamblike docility,’ the local newspaper reported.
  • Their rebellion in MP turns out to be pointless, since they are the last group who could hope to rebel — docility is in their bones. Ballardian » 'Perverse Technology': Dan Mitchell & Simon Ford interview J.G. Ballard
  • It is not immediately clear how this jibes with the subsequent emphasis on working-class docility and immiseration of workers under the burden of capital's competitive restructuring efforts.
  • From the late '80s onwards, the U.S. empire felt it could count on Latin American docility and stability, and looked towards other regions to satiate its ever growing thirst for oil and engage its military might in other conflicts. Foreign Policy In Focus
  • They who attempted to read the prophecy with accuracy were of opinion that the prophet had intimated that had the nation, even in this its crisis, consented to take him, the prophet, as its sole physician and to obey his prescription with childlike docility, health might not only have been reestablished, but a new juvenescence absolutely created. Phineas Redux
  • Gandhi applied a technique of combat which turned the traditional docility of the gentle Hindu into heroism.
  • They still have so much need to learn from others and for many docility is a difficult virtue. Montessori Questions
  • Mother Teresa, who are prepared to sacrifice their own interests for those of other people, is to be explained in terms of "docility" and Warranted Christian Belief
  • That is your child who is wanting in docility," remarked Mr. Randolph. Melbourne House
  • She carried that sour expression on her face as she went out, considering her promise of docility.
  • Their predominant expression was good nature, a kind of elephantine docility, which neutralized the awe inspired by his immense size. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
  • Uniform, along with the cogneries of military discipline procedures, should not be seen only in terms of docility and repression, or ideological instrumentality.
  • Unlike his other duplicates, this clone would not undergo growth acceleration or docility tampering.
  • These debates are driven by contrasting moral visions of the proper authority of teachers and the proper docility of students.
  • Over 85 percent of the factories are American owned, and employ primarily women because of their perceived docility, dexterity and disposability.
  • He uses it as an example to describe how modern societies use similar techniques to control behavior and ensure docility.
  • Peoples who heretofore were content to stand aside in docility, from now on will start demanding participation in business and government. A United States Policy for the Pacific
  • Do you think that because of the apparent docility of women they are being taken advantage of in certain areas?
  • At that moment a young trooper, fresh-faced and smiling, found himself in trouble with a bunch of horses; in a second he slipped from the numnah, got a short hold of the reins, and jagged the restive chargers into obedient docility. Kitchener, Organizer of Victory
  • But when they live in reverence and docility toward these Five, then do these five things conduce to the maintenance, the clarity, the presence of the true doctrine.
  • Sheep remind people of such qualities as timidity, docility and gentleness in Chinese as well as Western culture.
  • I'm just finishing up a study about how one group of people used overwhelming displays of violence to overawe and terrorize another group into docility and obedience.
  • I have called docility the necessary midwife of Genius, for so it is; and religion is a discipline that constrains us to learn. Albert Durer
  • By meekness the Psalmist means, I suppose, little else than what we might call docility, of which the prime element is the submission of my own will to God's. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
  • Gandhi applied a technique of combat which turned the traditional docility of the gentle Hindu into heroism.

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