Sentences with phrase «docility as»

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.

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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.
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.
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.»
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.»
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.
This docility continued through the 1990s until the appointment of William J. Bratton as police commissioner.
House cats also show none of the typical signs of animal domestication, such as infantilization of facial features, decreased tooth size, and docility.
The American Kennel Club describes the English Mastiff breed as «a combination of grandeur and good nature as well as courage and docility
She writes, «The sublime amalgamates such conventionally masculine qualities as power, size, ambition, awe, and majesty; the beautiful collects the equally conventional feminine traits of softness, smallness, weakness, docility, delicacy, and timidity.»
As if our silence and complicity, indeed our docility, will be rewarded.
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