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.
Not exact matches
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.