docility

Their rebellion in MP turns out to be pointless, since they are the last group who could hope to rebel — docility is in their bones.

Ballardian » 'Perverse Technology': Dan Mitchell & Simon Ford interview J.G. Ballard 2008

They still have so much need to learn from others and for many docility is a difficult virtue.

Montessori Questions regina doman 2007

They still have so much need to learn from others and for many docility is a difficult virtue.

Montessori Questions regina doman 2007

Peoples who heretofore were content to stand aside in docility, from now on will start demanding participation in business and government.

A United States Policy for the Pacific 1944

"That is your child who is wanting in docility," remarked Mr. Randolph.

Melbourne House 1907

From the late '80s onwards, the U.S. empire felt it could count on Latin American docility and stability, and looked towards other regions to satiate its ever growing thirst for oil and engage its military might in other conflicts.

Foreign Policy In Focus 2009

I have called docility the necessary midwife of Genius, for so it is; and religion is a discipline that constrains us to learn.

Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

By meekness the Psalmist means, I suppose, little else than what we might call docility, of which the prime element is the submission of my own will to God's.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

It's much more threatening to the status quo here, because there's a kind of docility that's expected of the American populace.

Questions &Amp; Answers: Battlelines 2008

Mother Teresa, who are prepared to sacrifice their own interests for those of other people, is to be explained in terms of "docility" and

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000