Sentences with phrase «of docility»

By directing our attention to these blatant visual comparisons between the slates of inconspicuous Vegas neighborhoods and the tactical POV of high - flying drones drifting above unsuspected, Niccol's invades our sense of docility, in a somewhat subtle attempt to plant us in harm's way and daring to jolt us into action and ultimately caring.

Santos, Museveni, Mugabe, Mswathi, Bashir, Biya and others in the same ilk started their games; mindlessly lording it over their people in an age of docility.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.»

Finally, she closes her defence of West with what amounts to a straightforward denial of Schindler's fourth point, saying,» [West] has shown spectacular docility and humility in reworking [hispresentations] in response to criticisms.»

God is angry with Buhari; Buhari is incompetent, clueless — Fayose Following the violence that characterized the re-run elections in Rivers State, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has tongue - lashed President Mohammadu Buhari over his docility, saying God is angry with him.

The president of the senate said that the docility in the party was giving room for unfounded allegations against some of its members.

This docility continued through the 1990s until the appointment of William J. Bratton as police commissioner.

When natural selection narrows its focus on a single trait — docility — a suite of other traits tumble along behind.

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

«Docility is too much like slavery,» Emily's father says, an abolitionist sentiment that neatly distills the atmosphere of religious devotion and intellectual freedom that was allowed to flourish in the Dickinson household.

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.

House cats also show none of the typical signs of animal domestication, such as infantilization of facial features, decreased tooth size, and docility.

Their docility is an inherited trait, a result of genetic mutation.

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.

The American Kennel Club describes the English Mastiff breed as «a combination of grandeur and good nature as well as courage and docility.»

The docility of bearded dragon makes it a great reptile pet for handling, it will tolerate well if you handle it well.

Docility and tractability have always been vital traits in a powerful dog that must be handled even in the midst of a dog fight; therefore, the Am Staff evolved to have a sweet and trustworthy disposition around people.

Certainly it is true that genetics plays a significant role in docility, so of course one is going to increase the odds for success by breeding for those traits.

The AKC Standard says, «A combination of grandeur and good nature, 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.»

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.