| The better-off refuse payment for services they accept while their victims are so servile and acquiescent that they make no protest. |
| His poetry continued as it began, very alert to Art as politically acquiescent, complicit or compromised. |
| By being acquiescent, rather than questioning who was in charge, the first mate was distracted from carrying out his responsibilities. |
| Indeed, Menand's enthusiasm for commercialism and pop culture goes far toward explaining why his work seems so acquiescent. |
| A skeptical press is essential to a healthy and functioning democracy, and the consequences of such an acquiescent media are frightening. |
| So why are we so acquiescent and even seemingly disinterested in the current move to privatize the adjudicative aspects of our law-making tools? |
