The avant garde became docile, introspective and irrelevant.
Part of the answer is that we need to raise our game and not become docile and passive citizens.
By then, Mr. Fayette said, the suspect had become docile, as if whatever had motivated the attack had suddenly left him.
A cantankerous Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, has become docile enough to pass laws, including a tight budget, which under any previous government would have been dead on arrival.
Or rage, because yet again, the young are assuming that once over 65, we all become docile, useless, thick as planks, and willing to believe that a big, lumping doll is the answer to our problems.
In the wild, Kibuki would offer herself to the fittest male, whereas here she only has access to Iblis, who has become docile and slothful as a result of taking his mate for granted and having meals provided for him.
Then he swallows almost uncritically the conventional hogwash of partisan critics on both sides: that "the media" (as accused from the right) work in tireless pursuit of a liberal agenda, and that they have (as accused from the left) become docile house pets of the Bush administration because they fear offending the powers that be.
John Brandte Deerfield, N.H., March 9, 2009 To the Editor: Re "Generation OMG" (Week in Review, March 8): As an 18-year-old member of the generation in question, I find it hard to fathom that a majority of my peers will grow up to become "docile notetakers," byproducts of our "neuroses" or benign careerists content to "marry younger" and "be satisfied with stable but less exciting jobs".
The people will become docile, a great menace to freedom.
