She wasn't there - she wasn't even born when I was adopted.' Perhaps, I venture, the twins had more docile personalities and were more capable of submitting to their mother's controlling nature?
Katrina was a road to Damascus moment for many reporters — in the days of anarchy and neglect that followed the flooding, even the more docile television personalities couldn't tamp down their disgust and outrage.
His compact and athletic build belied a docile and inwardly tortured personality; the art critic Michael Peppiatt described him as having the air of a man who could "land a decisive punch".
The arachnids' personalities are heritable, so a docile pair produces almost exclusively docile offspring, aggressive mates mainly make aggressive offspring, and mixed pairs produce a combination of docile and aggressive babies.
Set in 1967, near the outset of the Cultural Revolution and at the height of the Maoist cult of personality, "Serve the People!" tells the story of a docile, doctrinaire peasant soldier named Wu Dawang, whose word-perfect memory of Mao's sayings (coupled with his excellent kitchen skills) leads to a plum job: cook and general orderly for the commander of his military division.
And there are numerous instances of animals displaying what in a human terms we'd describe as personality; individual animals within each species who are more playful, aggressive, docile, curious, or animals with better or worse skills as family leaders.
36th District (northeast Bronx, part of Westchester): A first-term state senator, Ruth hassell-Thonlyon has only begun to establish herself as a strong personality in a governing body that prefers its members to be politically docile.
Many claim that Nancy's character also changed significantly: "The character of Nancy Drew also underwent a dramatic change: the strong-willed teen was having her personality diluted, causing her to lose her characteristic independence," making Nancy Drew more docile, conventional, and demure.
The spider's traits are inherited by their progeny, so docile pairs produce exclusively docile offspring, aggressive pairs create aggressive offspring, and mixed pairs result in both personality types.
