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What grates is the calculatedly docile language as she counsels to "say yes to sex" and "practice saying 'I can't.' " And she advises readers not to tell their husbands they're even reading the book (Ms. Doyle never let on that she was writing a how-to book: her husband said he thought it was a Harlequin romance).
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But the intense focus on issues of interest to the Hispanic community has led to accusations of advocacy journalism, especially when that means politicians are subjected to a level of scrutiny they are not used to from a generally more docile English-language press.
Nabokov, though he became one of the masters of prose in our language, mourned the loss of the "untrammelled, rich and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English".
Given Totten's own Orientalist language, it is not surprising that he fails to criticize House's portrayal of Saudis as passive, somnolent, undereducated, docile and unquestioningly obedient.
Ricky is docile.
"Docile big teddy bear?
It keeps him docile.
Cristina's so docile.
She was very docile though.
People are not docile victims.
Make them docile and generous.
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