Sentences with word «docility»

In this instance, the virtue of docility includes a respect for bishops that requires recalling them to the duty and the dignity to which they were ordained.

Is it the case that Lutheran theology favors brute political realism, mercilessness in state operations, perhaps even docility in the face of tyranny?

Belyaev bred his animals for docility alone.

Those who reflect insufficiently find it peculiar that people suffer the oppression of this kind of sovereign with docility and patience, that they do not open their eyes to the vices and excesses of the clergymen who degrade them, and that they endure from a head that is shorn what they wold not suffer from a head crowned with laurels.

More than the argument from docility, it was this ritual cleansing on the altar that persuaded me, as if it had been a surface refreshment of the deeper mystery of the priest's consecrated hands.

Almost three hundred bishops sat in mandatory docility as they were sternly reproached by knowing psychologists, angry spokespersons for millions of presumably angrier lay people, and, above all, by those whom the bishops learned to call, with almost cringing deference, the «victim / survivors.»

Behavioral changes including panting, pacing, odd running patterns, extreme docility, extreme viciousness and not recognizing known individuals

It is worth noting that this supposedly neutral historical typology is empirically wrong in connecting a core curriculum with lecturing and student docility.

That irresponsible docility, especially towards the Supreme Court, became increasingly perilous when, from the 1960s on, progressive justices realized they could do just about whatever they wanted so long as they had five votes for it, and the people would still accept it.

The purpose of the Convergence's anodyne design, DeLillo suggests, is to dull clients» perception and lull them into the kind of forgetfulness and docility needed to participate in what is essentially assisted suicide.

Finally, we can learn from the Old Testament to proclaim the God who creates new social possibilities beyond the shrunken horizons of defeat and submissive docility.

But there is little docility in Wilder's women.

Allinsmith and Goethals state: «If a teacher demands too much docility, the pupils may some day have trouble in thinking independently and imaginatively; if too much time is spent in «free expression,» mastering basic skills may suffer.»

Both upbringing and education were absorbed like so much milk and eggs, with entire docility and without any intellectual misgivings.

They equate voluntary submission to complete docility.

Benefactors and protectors always demand docility from those in their care.

Amongst our outstanding programs are «removing all capability for independant thought,» «advanced docility towards Catholic scandals,» «absolute political obedience,» «not minding when the Church does something horrific to your children» and of course, our famous «looking down on all non-Catholics as the doomed scumbellies that they are.»

«In periods of decline recreation becomes an exhibition to promote docility and take people's minds off public calamity,» he said in 1948.

Michel Foucault extrapolated from this design the logic of an entire «disciplinary» society composed of submissive subjects, controlled not through force but through an idea into self - regulated «automatic docility».

What docility!»

Radiating a disarmingly boyish docility, his prodigious bursts of violence land abruptly.

It depicts a future of mass docility, created and maintained by a violent sport that distracts the public from the actions of the corporate oligarchy that rules the world.

He said that those who favored a definite core curriculum were called «authoritarian,» inducers of passivity and docility rather than independent - mindedness.

These debates are driven by contrasting moral visions of the proper authority of teachers and the proper docility of students.

In an age when most machines have been muted and muffled and beaten into legislated docility, the RS4's V - 8 sounds, if not perfect, then at least very, very real.

The Scuderia felt very different to the regular F430, not least the way, in a heartbeat, it could flip between mild - mannered docility and feral ferocity.

What elevates the Wrangler to one of the best though isn't its pure capability, it's the fact that Wrangler is extremely well - sorted, comfortable and livable when your commute doesn't require goat - like climbing, just lap - dog docility.

If you're not in a rush, the softest mode slurs quickly to sixth gear for economy, masking the engine's ferocity with unexpected docility.

For now, we're awe - struck by the Hellcat's sheer docility.

Secondly, we would prefer animals that tend toward docility, for obvious reasons.

Within the process of agreement and acceptance of their values through communication resides either the mindful contemplation and unquestioning docility or an accidental absorption that is time evolves to mindless acquisition or the -LSB-...]

Gilbert and Gubar's principle argument is that the image of the female monster describes powerful women who reject male authority and its prescriptions of feminine docility, silence, and submission.

Belyaev's idea was that ancient humans picked wolves and other animals for docility and that this artificial selection jump - started an evolutionary path toward domestication.

Though it may seem that the popularity it gets is because of its snobbish look, many love the English bulldog for its great temperament as a companion, and it's docility as a family pet.

Sporadic muscle contractions over the entire body Falling to the side with a drawn back position of the head and neck Loss or semi-loss of consciousness Involuntary vomiting, salivation, urination or defecation Changes in mental awareness from unresponsive staring to hallucinations Behavioral changes including panting, pacing, odd running patterns, extreme docility, extreme viciousness and not recognizing known individuals During the seizure, your pet will experience three different stages.

Terms such as «feminine vocation» or «femininity,» which Christians use as alternatives to «feminism,» have a connotation of docility and passiveness that fails to describe the women we most admire, whether in Wilder's time or in our own.

The script isn't wholly outstanding, and the story contains some very generous allowances (particularly Everett Sloane's vacillating leanings and allegiances when his intro scene makes it clear he's a lethal scoundrel never to be trusted), but the picture really comes alive when Welles, as Cesare Borgia, delivers his lines with acidic arrogance, and eyes that flip from docility to sociopathic rage.

With docility and courage, one must trust that the priest acts in the person of Christ.

The intelligent learn the docility necessary to be drawn into relation with the Divine, then they receive Wisdom.

«The Holy Father... calls for the clergy and the entire people of God of Ciudad del Este to accept the Holy See's decision with the spirit of obedience, docility and an open heart, guided by faith.»

Catholicism requires docility, but not only docility, since on the evidence of the last two centuries, some insights and arguments that get called «liberal» can eventually be accepted by the magisterium.

It's so complex, indeed, that we're to practice «the art of accompaniment» that Pope Francis recommends, which means «prudence, understanding, patience and docility to the Spirit,» and not «judgments about people's responsibility and culpability.»

Docility is a quality the Germans have found lacking in the Poles of late.

As one man said: «In all social systems, there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life... a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill Its requisites are vigor, docility, and fidelity.»

As I put pen to paper, perhaps I too modeled the virtue of docility (albeit to a lesser magisterium).

He said «John Dramani Mahama had benefitted from such a situation in the Presidential petition of 2013 and cynically thought his good friend, the President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, whom he had invited as the special guest of honour during Ghana's independent Celebrations in 2016, would have the benefit of the docility of the Kenyan Supreme Court just as he was the beneficiary of Ghana's razor thin edge Supreme Court decision in 2013.

Christ offers hope but also counsels acceptance and humility and the centuries as a slave religion made it, allegedly, fit for slaves (I think Neitzche called it the slave religion praising passivity and docility and thwarting the will..

According to him, Mahama «benefitted from such a situation in the Presidential petition of 2013 and cynically thought President Uhuru Kenyatta would have the benefit of the docility of the Kenyan Supreme Court.»