"A lot of people regard Zimbabweans as docile," says Dube. "But there's docility based on intelligence that says if there's a chance to survive there is no point in risking your life.
But they also tend to bully their boards into meek docility.
But the country's "rival queens"—Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, and Khaleda Zia, who were both jailed during an anti-corruption drive by an army-backed government in 2007-08 seem to see the soldiers' docility as an opportunity.
But the mild, damp climate may help to account for the country's political docility: perpetual drizzle makes Britons disinclined to congregate outdoors, dreaming up new ideologies and plotting revolutions.
That idea has for weeks been causing Mr Blair the sort of acute embarrassment that the relative docility of Americans (a surprising number of whom apparently think that Iraq actually used chemical weapons during the war) had spared Mr Bush until recently.
This docility has increased investors' appetite for both stocks and bonds, which helps explain why the stockmarket hovers near record highs and yields on Treasuries near historic lows.Many of the causes suggested for the original moderation do not apply to its revival.
We have to cast away our docility and raise our legitimate voice of anger to our leaders.
Is it better to loosen controls in order to satisfy their people with a whiff of freedom, or to tighten them in an effort to ensure their docility?The fate of Tunisia's strongman, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, suggests that an angry people will be satisfied with neither.
There is no obvious connection between docility and floppy ears.Adam Wilkins of Humboldt University in Germany, and colleagues in America and Austria, have proposed a new hypothesis in the journal Genetics.
Before these changes, the only criticism of boards that was taken seriously was that they were hand-picked yes-men (plus a few yes-women), chosen largely for their docility and willingness to pay the boss a fortune.
Research on foxes in fur farms suggests that such body shapes are a side-effect of breeding for docility.
