Thus I enjoyed three virginal days and dreamless nights, which passed quickly, in a trance of docility.
Internal control systems in Chinese organisations outwardly reflect traditions of obedience, but various forms of accommodation serve to weaken the surface illusion of docility.
During the address, the Pope also used Biblical examples to hit out against "careerism", saying it was against the attitude of "docility" taught by Jesus.
One way might be for the Democrats to scrub any remaining hint of docility from their reputation (though Kerry had tried to do that, and failed).
"Thomas, I don't even have a B.A". Wright replied, "Well, you know, Ricky, a Ph.D. is just a sign of docility".
They see, in such known inducers of docility as urns of hosta and bright-colored plastic chaise longues (which, after much hostility, have been replaced with standard-issue metal chairs), a sort of state-sponsored tranquillization scheme.
It was a watershed moment for the well-brought-up girls of her generation, especially, perhaps, girls like Miuccia — cerebral but impetuous — who were just emerging from their cocoons of docility to discover feminism.
Our collective decisions should not be the result of docility in the face of the constructed objectivity of the "facts" of economic theory, but the product of subjective and collective ideological resolutions.
The topic of docility has concerned Puerto Rican critics for years.
It's a democracy, it's far away, and it has a history of docility.
Maynard Smith concluded on the basis of his model that the between-group advantage of docility was insufficient to counter the within-group advantage of aggressiveness.
