Sentence examples for docile man from inspiring English sources

According to the latest People magazine, Callista has played Henry Higgins to Newt's Eliza Doolittle, remaking him into a more docile man who plays golf, loves opera, worships at a Catholic church, and, for the first time, shares his calamari.

But Mr. Wilkinson's performance as the impassive Matt Fowler is most moving in its stillness, in which a docile man's feelings of impotence and his desire to do something to avenge his son and preserve his marriage starts deep within and manifests itself in an ever-growing gleam in his eyes.

He'd look at the docile men around him and see the sharp hatred beneath their submission.

Women, he believes, should be thin, quiet, unambitious and docile; men should be masculine, dominant, and heterosexual.

Sir Barton, on the rail, was more docile than Man o' War and broke first with the flag.

He says it was docile until a man tried to get a closer look and it hissed.

If Creative isn't getting a perk or two out of this settlement, Hoo's comment describing the deal as "amicable," would sound strangely docile for the man who once declared an MP3 player war against Apple with a $100 million marketing campaign and called the iPod Shuffle "worse than the cheapest Chinese player".

Scandinavians are not the docile fantasy of men's imaginations.

But unless there's also a dark side, a thick undercurrent of the bad boy running underneath a man's docile exterior, you can't help it -- you're going to get bored.

To give just a few examples: On depression: Bateson speculates that typical reactions to psychological stress may have been selected by an evolutionary process favoring docile women and aggressive men.

Feminine and masculine gender-norms, however, are problematic in that gendered behaviour conveniently fits with and reinforces women's subordination so that women are socialised into subordinate social roles: they learn to be passive, ignorant, docile, emotional helpmeets for men (Millett 1971, 26).