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How to use docility in a sentence

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Sheep remind people of such qualities as timidity, docility and gentleness in Chinese as well as Western culture.
Do you think that because of the apparent docility of women they are being taken advantage of in certain areas?
She carried that sour expression on her face as she went out, considering her promise of docility.
So teachableness is necessary and teachableness and docility are both included in prudence.
These debates are driven by contrasting moral visions of the proper authority of teachers and the proper docility of students.
The trait that breeders of fancy mice wanted first and foremost was docility.
Over 85 percent of the factories are American owned, and employ primarily women because of their perceived docility, dexterity and disposability.
He flirted with her while the lioness reduced his rambunctiousness to docility.
He uses it as an example to describe how modern societies use similar techniques to control behavior and ensure docility.
The saints accept this demanding invitation and set out with humble docility in following the crucified and risen Christ.
But when they live in reverence and docility toward these Five, then do these five things conduce to the maintenance, the clarity, the presence of the true doctrine.
Often, with a smile, they teach us to let God work in us, through the docility of the Holy Spirit.
I'm just finishing up a study about how one group of people used overwhelming displays of violence to overawe and terrorize another group into docility and obedience.
This divine movement may be accelerated solely by docility in accepting it.
Those who lack memory will more than likely lack docility, another integral part of prudence.
Finally and for different reasons, the NAM demonstrated an unusual degree of docility at the Conference.
They flew with great docility to the mountains, the plain, wherever the breath of the Spirit sent them.
We have to cast away our docility and raise our legitimate voice of anger to our leaders.
A person is said to be operating toward the attainment of a goal when the person's behavior exhibits a certain constellation offeatures, including persistence, equifinality, and docility.
It is through this docility and availability that you discover your true mission, that of letting Love flow.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It comes from the Moluccas, and is treated like the preceding, which it equals in docility.
The bearer of all this tintinnabular clatter is chosen from its superior docility and knack in picking out a way.
The tassel, or tercel, was the male of the peregrine falcon, and was noted for its docility and gentleness.
This secret of success was was only to be won by the development of a temper, a spirit of docility.
They reap the rewards of the docility and zeal of the masses which they direct.
And he had been a good soldier as he had been a good son, because of his docility and his strength.
The youth refused to kill himself with the sheeplike docility of so many of his contemporaries.
This appeal to manly protection was received by Stevie with his usual docility.
Some authors have proved the mildness and docility of the camelopard, while others represent it as incapable of being tamed.
He listened with eager docility to the voice of hoary wisdom.
The most tyrannical precepts were obeyed with the greatest docility.
Whether Noirtier understood the young man's indecision, or whether he had not full confidence in his docility, he looked uneasily at him.
From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition.
Nature has provided for this by evolving the instinct of docility.
He helped his sister with blind love and docility in her household duties.
He had been early trained to gentleness, docility, and goodness.
The docility of the wanderoo often vanishes together with its youth.
There is no other way of accounting for their facile docility.
They watched it with intense interest as it licked the hands accustomed to feed it, and were struck with the mild expression of its countenance, and its perfect docility.
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