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"docile" Definitions
  1. quiet and easy to control

402 Sentences With "docile"

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Other imagers like CT and PET scanners aren't so docile.
How much makes a user docile and easy to control?
And Mr Tsipras is unlikely to go into docile opposition.
Who are relatively docile, I have to say, tech workers.
I knew my mother's father as a docile, suffering man.
Previously docile politicians have emerged in recent days to snipe.
Rage against our docile conditioning and cater to your needs.
The current economy, the way it's built, makes people docile.
In areas that weren't hit by storms, docile colonies thrived.
"Sometimes I think we are too docile," Mr. Perng said.
I find the journalism culture in D.C. to be incredibly docile.
A docile toad that likes to hang out on Newsome's porch.
Such is the relatively docile nature of owner activism in America.
The process has never been smooth and the defeated seldom docile.
In Pakistan, their counterparts seem more docile, but only by comparison.
People hate these spiders, but they're very peaceful and docile creatures.
It's evident that the people are no longer afraid and docile.
Rez has a brutal, unforgiving father and a docile, oblivious mother.
Docile with humans, they are fierce defenders of territory and their young.
Consequently, its employees are often regarded as happy, willing, and even docile.
What better a way to keep the world's population docile and controllable?
And if people start to pursue them, they become less docile bodies.
Why did some cancers spread and kill patients, while many remained docile?
My sister towers above the woman but is docile in her grip.
In doing so, bees become weak, docile, and unable to protect themselves.
Bears, unlike dogs, haven't become more docile as a result of domestication.
Are Puerto Ricans condemned to become docile servants of their new owners?
He even caught himself thinking as "she" in the occasional, docile moment.
It's totally livable, with the high-strung engine docile at low speed.
"At the beginning, Mohamedou wanted to be docile and sweet," he said.
And that, in turn, mandates that Xinjiang and its inhabitants remain docile.
Mitchell portrays white enslavers as noble, slaves as shiftless, docile and loyal.
Nor can they recruit more docile partners among the four opposition parties.
The Democrats have designed a reasonable system that reflects the party's true values — though not the image it would like to convey to its docile lower-class voting base, who might not remain docile if it understood the truth.
He met Carlo Gambino, a close friend of Bruno, through the Docile Don.
But Young Ford doesn't seem to just be a docile, clueless host anymore.
Others argued that Christianity would make slaves more docile and easier to control.
The ending, which finds Kate docile at last, is meant to be winsome.
Concern, even among so far docile Washington Republicans, about Trump's course is palpable.
Understand that women have been socialized from birth to be docile and yielding.
A corollary to the rule is that a nation in shock is docile.
The warriors are not all males; the docile creatures are not all females.
They weigh roughly 1 pound; they're docile and they're not really the nervous type.
The bee's docile nature makes it an appealing addition to a backyard family farm.
She's incredibly sweet-mannered and docile and likes to sit coiled around my wrist.
Her told ESPN that Bevo is usually "docile" and not one to act out.
The takedowns were disconcerting to performers who came to town expecting a docile press.
The tiger was so docile; it seemed even to bow its head and kneel.
Opinion THE immigrants trickling into the maple-paneled Brooklyn courtroom were a docile group.
The PD, decimated in Sunday's election, may also be a more docile coalition partner.
And while the world has condemned his disappearance, the US has remained quite docile.
Fortunately, shareholders in European companies tend to be less docile than their Japanese counterparts.
Kept in its most docile drive mode, the 570GT is relaxed motoring about town.
Meant as sincere flattery, the NSX can be as docile as a Honda Accord.
Instead of being sweet and docile, she was snappish and didn't apologize for it.
But if modernization erodes the clergy's authority, how long will its members remain docile?
Thing after thing, you never object to anything that I can tell and you're docile.
THE cane rat, a large, blunt-nosed version of its urban cousin, looks docile enough.
Bloggers who cross the line vanish into army custody, only to reappear chastened and docile.
"They are seen as more docile and easier to control by factory management," says Cline.
After being exposed to the smoke, the lobster was docile and serene, Ms. Gill said.
"It makes the community easier to be subjugated, more cooperative, more docile," Dr. Klimes said.
What happens when that same docile individual turns out to be nursing intensifying self-doubt?
The president-elect is far from docile, which can be seen from his unconventional candidacy.
"Cheddar is extremely docile and gentle, so he doesn't mind the clothes at all," she says.
But their protagonists are troublemakers, bucking against the expectations for docile white middle-class teenage girls.
The animals are docile herbivores, but officials still urged citizens not to try to capture them.
The CTS-V can also be a perfectly docile roadway companion — when the claws are retracted.
In one study, however, aggressive spiders in so-called mutualistic relationships suffered compared to docile spiders.
It's easier for kids to enter and exit, and the Cherokee delivers a more docile ride.
The implication, I think, is that the mother of the bride needs to be made docile.
The reptile was "very docile and very gentle," Butler County Fire Chief James Woydziak told CNN.
A powerful anti-psychotic was being used widely to treat routine insomnia and keep inmates docile.
Through this combination of carrots and sticks he hopes to render the institutional media docile and pliable.
They are known for being a fairly docile sheep and also the cutest lawnmowers you've ever seen.
Negga's Mildred is warmer and lovelier, but she's exceedingly docile in a way that, sadly, feels learned.
That got the South Koreans to be extra docile, obligingly censor themselves and say only nice things.
And while we should be peaceful during transfers of power, we need not be docile or subservient.
In this case, the bear could have been simply conditioned to be temporarily docile around the dog.
"There is so much focus on Muslim women in hijab, and oppression and being docile," she said.
As punishment, she gets teleported back to 1959 Wisconsin to be "re-educated" and rendered more docile.
"I wanted to challenge the narrative that Muslim women are meek and docile and oppressed," she says.
A moment like this was inevitable: A docile servant with no interiority isn't exactly a captivating heroine.
Flowers tells TMZ Sports ... Sandy was docile and friendly and is clearly the victim in the situation.
Entries like sheeple (people who are docile and easily influenced) and listicle are derived from Internet lingo.
Active suspension dampers provide this mid-engine machine with the ride quality of a docile daily driver.
At least she's noticeably docile when she meets an unexpected friendly face in the middle of the street.
"As technology gets more threatening, we're nostalgic for our humble beginnings, for a more docile precedent," she said.
She says she was assured the dog was docile, so she came out and says Kingsley went ham.
Ruki, though usually a proud and haughty cat, often becomes uncharacteristically docile when I put her in costume.
"He's so affectionate, so lovable and so docile," Slater said, adding that finding his owner will be bittersweet.
I think the Google employees I interviewed showed, as I said, Facebook employees, docile, although not this week.
The academics are now trying to sequence the grasscutter's genome, in the hope of breeding more docile animals.
Even though it's a menacing sight, the bees are usually at their most docile during the swarming process.
And this, supposedly, is Trump at his most docile and controlled—proposing the imposition of a white ethnocracy.
As the weak oil price and Russia's recession have reduced budget revenues, regional governments are becoming less docile.
" Hale acknowledges the similarities between his infamously docile Buster Bluth character and "Veep's" Gary: "Lot of mommy issues.
But its docile nature — when not provoked, of course — has earned it legal status in plenty of states.
Male figures carrying baskets of red fruit and docile sacrificial goats march back and forth across the shard.
Because of the nature of The Taillor Group, she said, the clients tended to be respectful and docile.
The cumulative choices of millions, whether in protest, in voting or in docile compliance, are the indispensable ingredient.
Mr. Xi's new guidance is likely to make the official press even more docile than it traditionally has been.
Back then, life was more brutish but also wilder -  there were fewer shiny items to keep a child docile.
The humans are kept occupied, docile and none the wiser thanks to their all-encompassing link to the Matrix!
"Hindus used to be too innocent and docile to understand that Muslims are the biggest threat," Ms. Dubey said.
She's in prison, and she's decided she will no longer be the docile doe-eyed soldier from episode 1.
Armageddon, Ahmed Qoqas' latest mod, warps the docile suburbia of SimNation into an epic struggle of superheroes and supervillains.
The beetles were still fucking, so I didn't want to disturb them, but the roaches actually looked pretty docile.
Silicon Valley tech employees have historically seemed a docile lot, lured to the corporate campuses in Mountain View, Calif.
But problems will arise when the Palestinians do not react in the docile manner that administration officials somehow expect.
The handling rides a continuum between docile and posh in hybrid mode to downright track-worthy in power mode.
The exec called it "shameful" and said it highlighted Apple&aposs "docile" workforce compared to other, more outspoken companies.
Since Reflection is soft, languid, and ostensibly docile, it's tempting to note some dissonance between Eno's post and his music.
The sharks will bite and act defensive if they are stepped on, or bothered by divers who assume they're docile.
All in all, it's a traditional sports sedan; completely docile and controlled without a hint of drama in daily driving.
Parrots are not docile, not completely tamed, and their depictions in these paintings cannot be perceived simply as static symbols.
It scared me enough to act pretty docile and let him think that I was gonna go along with him.
They may be walking around and looking docile and looking like they're not fighting back, but they are completely enslaved.
Daley forces this trembling, newly docile Nanette onto his next mission, towards a red-hued alien planet to collect Baldak.
Ms. Allyn's soprano vocals, supported by a distinctive vibrato trill, impart a sense of strength to her otherwise docile Maria.
Bernie (Stephanie Gould), alternately docile and demanding, rude and sweet, stubborn and accommodating, sets the pace of the Vincolos' existence.
Barely six years after the follies of the generals helped dismember Pakistan, an apparently docile and obsequious army chief, Gen.
The shock felt different—less intense, maybe—as if they'd sent me back the docile, lobotomized version of the device.
Pugh's dark eyes and placid expressions at first give her character, Lady Katherine, the illusion of being passive and docile.
Visually floating but for their attachment to the docile-looking creature, they read as satellites drawn gravitationally to a greater mass.
"He was as compliant and docile as anyone I have ever seen come into a facility," Sheriff Dee Anderson told reporters.
I became the chill, docile, hardworking woman he wanted, one who would roll her eyes and laugh at his sexual advances.
Turns out, Venmo John was too docile, too eager-to-please — too successful and therefore not needy enough — for this show.
When she's not fighting evil as Marvel's badass heroine Jessica Jones, Krysten Ritter has a totally docile off-duty hobby: Knitting.
For the most part this experiment seemed pretty docile, with the rocket engine just churning up the water as it burned.
Docile wolves may have been slipped extra food scraps, the theory goes, so they survived better, and passed on their genes.
Eventually, they were let in one by one to recover their possessions: a cellphone, a docile dog, a pair of crutches.
As the star of WGN's Underground, now in its second season, Jurnee Smollett-Bell plays a docile house slave named Rosalee.
Whenever people talked about Asian women being these docile, subservient creatures, my grandma just blew all that out of the water.
And the sharks are fairly docile most often — they have no problem being around people so long as they're not bothered.
Because these docile creatures are so slow, algae sometimes grow​ on their bodies, changing the color and texture of their skin.
Hernán Giraldo Serna has gone from being a fearsome paramilitary commander in Colombia to a docile prisoner in the United States.
In China, Xi Jinping has persuaded a docile National People's Congress to lift the constitutional limit on his tenure in power.
Whenever people talked about Asian women being these docile, subservient creatures, my grandma just blew all that out of the water.
And isn't it enraging that women are socialized to be docile and accommodating and to put men's desires before their own?
In Rocha Pitta's work, nature becomes an agent of the unexpected, unseating our expectations of a docile or even victimized ecology.
In Netflix's The Rain, one of the show's most docile characters had a shy set of braces, a feature she kept hidden.
And ducks that live in populated areas are usually pretty comfortable and docile around people, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
CLOSE your eyes and you could be in a farmyard: a docile heifer slurps a grassy lunch off your hand, mooing appreciatively.
Certainly, we should expect little of the docile or the domestic in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female comedy at Shakespeare in the Park.
It's a book about memory suppression, and about the slippery nature of identity itself, slapped together from docile facts and devious fictions.
Docile is queer and kinky and doesn't shy away from the complicated questions that can come into play with those intersecting realities.
The 2500HD is docile enough to grab the groceries in suburban America, but it's most comfortable and useful down on the farm.
"They are biologically interesting," said Catherine G. Haase, a postdoctoral researcher from Montana State University, as she affectionately handled a docile bat.
Minerva was an AI designed to be initially docile, even useful, to the players, before eventually turning and attempting to eradicate them.
Natale worked under Philly boss Angelo the "Docile Don" Bruno, enforcing his will, monitoring the labor unions, and putting in work as needed.
I think if more stuff comes out, but this particular company is so not ... The employees are so docile, it's really quite fascinating.
They like their elected officials to be docile — but that does not describe the fifteen freshman senators, nor the senate's new leadership team.
But the Kremlin appears resigned to merely threaten a lawsuit against the US for closing the San Francisco consulate, a somewhat docile response.
The buffaloes are generally docile, but they are huge and have big horns which the bulls use when battling each other for dominance.
There is a small group of brahmin — imagine really muscular cows that occasionally have two heads — and they're as docile as can be.
Robot attacks, even from the more docile variants, cause a lot of damage, so the player must keep Aloy moving in combat situations.
" DT: "I feel like for me it's the exact opposite, I think the perception of Asian-Americans is that we're passive, we're docile.
That's what the Church has always striven for; robbing humans of any shred of agency that keeps them docile—and keeps them donating.
Leopard Unlike rabbits, which have a pretty docile rep, the leopard is a wilder choice — they're much more prone to scratch and nip.
The best you can hope for is a docile — and sometimes playful — pet that won't crush you to death with its powerful jaw.
Wearing a pink dress, shiny stilettos, and with her hair in curls, she smiles and cleans up the mess wearing a docile expression.
Certain Bible passages, like, "Servant, obey thy master" — different things like that were given to slaves to keep them in a docile position.
Mr. Giraldo is now the type of docile inmate who reflexively crosses his wrists behind his back even when they are not cuffed.
A pair of Orinoco geese tended goslings, and two dozen capybara sat half-submerged, looking docile, some with mud caked across their backs.
The docile ocean mammal was spotted without a mother near the coast of Krabi, a popular beach destination in Southern Thailand, in April.
Despite his popularity, Daniel is something of a misfit, as tigers go: a docile, people-loving creature who lives inside a cuckoo clock.
Like many docile, self-effacing women, Jessica has some hidden pockets of pride, and one of them is her skills as a writer.
This docile wonder exists in a world of its own, self-contained and ambivalent toward anything outside the small ecosystem it has fostered.
Like blackface, racist objects such as mammy jars perpetuate deep-rooted stereotypes about African-Americans by portraying them as docile, dumb and animated.
When you look at period pieces like this, set in that era, usually women are demure, docile and don't have much of a voice.
The comments range from support with "yes give them docile doll anna" to speculation about whether she is plotting on a new business venture.
What the album doesn't have, however, is a more explosive standout like "The Funeral" or "Great Salt Lake," resulting in a relatively docile listen.
He won't be expected to come up with a docile volunteer-based policy agenda for children or families, as other former first spouses have.
All the white men—in this narrative there's still a couple, but they're very docile—just give money to women to fund their ideas.
Onto Mitski I had projected a pining frailty, believing that the lovesickness in her songs prefigured a neglect of the self, a docile masochism.
All of a sudden, the women who we thought were going to be docile subjects of The Bachelor's regime are agents of the narrative.
The women ruthlessly went about interrupting each other's conversations with Peter, preying on the more docile ones to get face time with the star.
Thought the animals are generally considered docile and adorable, it would be advisable to leave them alone in the wild, as they're very timid.
Arie was going to run to Lauren and Lauren, being a docile woman from what we know of her, would agree to marry Arie.
Normally a docile dog, the pup's protective instincts kicked in, prompting him to bite the stranger on the leg, the couple told Fox News.
Rose also eagled the par-five 14th — the only hole that was offering any gifts as a course so docile on Saturday bit back.
By 2001, the sugared sentiment of "Born to Make You Happy" had been refracted into something less docile—just as servile but much slinkier.
There remains something sobering in Bradbury's tale about leveraging ignorance as a kind of weapon, a means of keeping the masses manageable and docile.
A more docile North Korea could wind down its nuclear programme, formally end the Korean War, and perhaps even establish a timetable for reunification.
His docile French bulldog, Denise, was the picture of contentment perched on a sofa between the dining room and bar, where tables were higher.
BRITTANY PACKNETT Activist, educator and writer Intersectional oppression is the stereotype that Asian women must be docile at work, at home, and at play.
If elected, he would be no obscure back-bencher or docile freshman; he would be an outspoken advocate for the issues he believes in.
At that time, Japanese- and Chinese-Americans were repeatedly portrayed by politicians and the media, including The New York Times, as docile and industrious.
And still there is this trembling – a quaking among a docile but perturbed intelligentsia and a shuddering among the increasingly stifled presidential press corps.
Realizing the hotel was pet-friendly, she decided to use he opportunity to show off how docile her special pet could be, according to  Kentucky.com.
The type of sharks Brunning was feeding, tawny nurse sharks, are known for normally having a docile demeanor but have sharp teeth and strong jaws.
Switch back to comfort, and it's a docile highway cruiser with precious little cabin noise and a competent driver-assistance suite for semi-autonomous driving.
If we are unaware of resistance, it is easier for us to believe the enslaved were happy, docile, or that their conditions were not inhumane.
He could seem gracious and docile, sitting next to Joe Namath delivering sanitary anecdotes about fighting Joe Frazier in a cemetery if he had to.
"It was thrilling: so much of the Thai food in New York is docile, its spice neutered in a bid for Western palates," she wrote.
Past research has already demonstrated that colonies as a whole can be more aggressive or docile, based on the resources the colony has access to.
Because, over the decades, we've gradually given up our autonomy, step by step, allowing ourselves to be transformed into A.I.'s docile, fabulously pampered pets.
Eventually Toma grows docile and is given tasks to perform: working in the fields; walking into town with someone who speaks Russian to perform errands.
For the most part, Felix seems to be a genuinely good guy, which only makes his secret desire for a docile sex object more unsettling.
Border collie who nearly chewed us out of house and home during her early years but who has since settled into being a wonderful, docile creature?
Diogo Lagroteria, a veterinarian and environmental analyst at Ibama, told the G1 news portal that a jaguar can never be considered a domesticated or docile animal.
For those buttoning up their calicos in the 21st century, rather than the 19th, they know that docile sweetness and light still has plenty of grit.
With consumers docile, providers can keep quality low and prices high—much like tourist-trap restaurants, another one-off purchase made in haste with little information.
The squareness of the mountain of paperwork was offset by the docile pit bull laying on the couch next to me, occasionally lapping at my hand.
Old-style press censorship is easy; but all those docile delegates have access on their smartphones to the mockery and anger it provokes on the internet.
Once you've hit 115 mph in the rain on a slick racing circuit, most of the situations you'll encounter on the road seem much more docile.
Katie Stout dazzled Nina Johnson Gallery (formerly Gallery Diet) with her show, Docile/Domicile/Dandy: bubblegum-pink Sculptamold vanities, shiny plush chairs, a sock-covered armoire.
Ms. Lind — who has appeared as a docile Shakespearean heroine in Public Theater productions — shows a wicked comic wit here as a badge-toting femme fatale.
"But then when you get to pick one up, then you realize that snakes aren't so bad, they're actually docile, beautiful little creatures," Ms. Sustrik said.
Yeah Jon, so the general reputation of Facebook is they're incredibly, and this is Kara's word, "docile" whereas Google has very much that speak-up culture.
But whereas Hello Kitty is docile and friendly, Aggretsuko flies into rages — complete with wailing heavy metal music — against the inanity and repetition of her workplace.
When "The Mirror and the Light" begins, Cromwell has never been more beloved to the king, who is now free to marry the docile Jane Seymour.
Because Cancer is often stereotyped as a homemaker, people think they're too docile to make the first move—but this couldn't be further from the truth.
He really was a lion of the law: docile in private life but a ferocious fighter when at work, with a roar that could echo for miles.
Guernseys came from the isle of Guernsey in the English Channel and are known for their docile personalities and golden-hued milk that makes the brightest butter.
In "The Goodness Paradox", Richard Wrangham, an anthropologist at Harvard, argues that, despite impressions to the contrary, people have evolved into largely docile animals, much like bonobos.
Behind this image of a docile kneeling handmaid and an obedient wife is a seething military might – that could, hypothetically, march into Canada and take the baby.
The owner of the marina said that nurse sharks were typically docile but the sharks could have been feeding and might have mistaken Zarutskie's fingers for food.
They walk a fine line when it comes to monitoring their own appearance, taking care to not appear too assertive or, on the flip side, too docile.
Pinkney: I wanted to make little fur oven mitts and put it under their armpits and just puppeteer these docile cats and put varsity jackets on them.
When this concluding volume of a trilogy begins, Cromwell has never been more beloved to the king, who is now free to marry the docile Jane Seymour.
He manages to take the colours and textures of techno and break-beat, only to patch them together over atmospheres that are altogether more docile and fluid.
The bus-sized whale sharks — docile creatures with a gaping mouth — have recently become endangered, as researchers have been enlisting tourists to help track and identify them.
Dogs were the first animal friends of humans — wolves that scavenged for food among garbage piles and turned docile about 1003,000 years ago, or possibly much earlier.
On Tuesday, the President, an expert in the art of invective, escalated his seeming efforts to force the resignation of the usually docile and supportive attorney general.
It is to Kumar's credit that he makes Chauhan seem docile and mild, yet strong-willed enough to go where no Indian man has dared to venture.
While in Kartabo, then part of British Guiana, Isabel Cooper illustrated more cuddly creatures such as a long-tongued marmoset and a docile-looking, three-toed sloth.
And that's to say nothing of the quirky wordplay, which Fluke uses to comedic effect just in case the docile nature of the books wasn't obvious enough.
"I'm so glad you're the person I thought you were," says Hicks, clearly happy he chose a contestant docile enough not to call him out on his deception.
Not only that — the authors point out that people sometimes direct verbal abuse or sexual innuendo at their voice assistants, which tend to respond with disturbingly docile responses.
"She's very sweet and docile," Tabatha, 33, told USA Today back in 2014 — explaining that dwarfism caused the kitten's downturned mouth and small size (less than 5 pounds).
A docile dog or cat may be able to handle being hoisted into a complicated ensemble, whereas a wily puppy or kitten might get agitated or even aggressive.
The hyenas were woozy but not docile enough for blood and hair samples to be collected or for their paws to be imprinted on round pats of clay.
Stephanie Parker: Yeah, what I was going to add was that you mentioned that the tech workers have largely been docile and don't like to protest that much.
Pankaj Tripathi went from being a murderous butcher in Anurag Kashyap's "Gangs of Wasseypur" to a docile father in "Bareilly ki Barfi" - and won acclaim for both roles.
While honeybees are in fact quite docile creatures, for the safety of litigious Manhattanites, there is a metal mesh physically separating humans and insects inside the chapel itself.
Sirk frames her reflection in the TV like it's a prison, confining her to a retirement of docile complacency while denying her the vibrant passion outside its borders.
Any fault or misstep becomes a hammer he can use to chisel Celeste into the sculpture of the docile mother and wife he requires she aspires to be.
I was pretty aware of it, because I had been studying Jamaican history and the history of slavery, and especially how religion is used to make people docile.
As a domme, I gained independence and a sense of value, albeit superficial, in a society that has tried to force me into a docile, hyper-sexualized box.
The slaves were sometimes given rations of the island's plentiful rum to keep them docile, but the spirit was distilled in lead pipes, which poisoned them, he said.
This neutered view of race, informed by bad recollections of history, forced Ron and continues to force many people of color to fit into boxes of docile activism.
But many family members of detained lawyers say that the evidence points to widespread abuses, including the forced taking of drugs that made the detainees docile and submissive.
He said he found the party too old-fashioned and too docile but supports it because he views socialism as the only hope for Russia and the world.
In old-school access journalism, journalists trade access for docile coverage, and we are often served gossip or trivia: the kind the powerful would like us to know.
For Barth, the funhouse is a place of fear and confusion for the self-conscious writer-creator; a fake construct only enjoyable to giddy lovers and docile consumers.
Her main project is tweaking a machine called Orca, which emits radio frequencies that reduce the monsters from raging whirlwinds of destruction to much more docile (if enormous) beasts.
Not only am I a small woman, I'm a small woman of color — specifically, an Asian woman, whom stereotypes will tell you should be submissive and docile by nature.
It was one of many ways that Jeffs ensured his flock would remain docile and subordinate, especially as his attempts to consolidate his power became more and more overt.
"And then they say I'm in a sunken place," he said, a reference to the hit horror movie "Get Out," in which black characters are hypnotized into docile servitude.
So if you're watching a decent, docile movie chances are it's just a hodgepodge of movies you've already seen, checking off all those little boxes needed to be decent.
Haphazardly, then purposefully, humans bred cereals to be more bountiful, livestock to be more docile, dogs more obedient and cats more companionable (the last a partial success, at best).
Forced to play the part of the perfect, passive, docile little girl, Amma hoards any semblance of agency, whether through sex, beauty, cruelty, violence, or a meticulous doll house.
Then there's the entire plot of the film's inspiration: in The Taming of the Shrew, multiple men scheme and plot over who could obtain the most submissive, docile wife.
This made for a fairly ferocious machine, under all circumstances, regardless of whether I selected the docile everyday driving mode or pulled out all the stops to unleash hell.
One woman who was considering sending her son there, he said, felt the culture at the school might make her son "docile," take away some of his competitive edge.
Almost all young men in Darab's village moved to cities to join the growing urban precariat, who are exploited as cheap and docile workers in the informal labor market.
When a startlingly docile population is succumbing to the often treacherous locutions of a so-called strongman, this study of our essential moral pliability takes on a fresh urgency.
The arrests over the weekend, and the dismissals of senior cabinet officers, were presented as a crackdown on corruption, and accepted as such by the docile Saudi news media.
After Mexico rejected the US's demand to become a safe third country, the Trump administration looked to Guatemala and found a "very weak, docile, and subservient government," said Rodas.
Don't lie down and play dead (this is also true for bears and other predators): if the animal is hungry and views you as docile prey, you'll be dinner.
" Theresa Shoatz, the daughter of Russell (Maroon) Shoatz, a Black Panther who was in solitary confinement for twenty-eight years in Pennsylvania, said that Woodfox appeared "docile and withdrawn.
Some of his supporters have encouraged him to stop writing these grievances, to stop speaking to the press, to stay as quiet and docile as possible to avoid further harm.
"If you were born inside the wall, will you be docile enough to accept its protection...or would you like to break the wall?" the game says in a trailer.
On Sunday morning, several Thai media outlets carried a photo of two uniformed palace officials next to what appeared to be a docile Siamese cat and a fluffy white rooster.
The psychologist emerges from her session with Ziggy to confirm to Jane that her son is indeed a sweet and docile little boy who is almost surely not bullying anybody.
Let's also pretend that everything else people might believe to be true about Asian Americans — that we are docile, compliant, nerdy, fragile, quiet, exotic — are also not commonly-held assumptions.
That docile performance in Helsinki required Trump to turn his back on American intelligence officials who have briefed him on the overwhelming evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The ad's message may also tap into an emerging new market for Arab women chafing at hidebound social norms and an entertainment industry that often relegates them to docile roles.
"During the process, the usually docile behaving Bowie exhibited unusual conduct by suddenly pushing the gates prior to Jonathan being able to secure the safety clips," according to the statement.
"I promise I'll never come back; good night!" were Jimmy Kimmel's final words at last year's Oscars, shortly after an envelope mixup sent an otherwise docile night into absurdist chaos.
For instance, there's the erasure of the many slave revolts and rebellions that happened throughout the nation, perpetuating the lie that the enslaved were docile or satisfied with their conditions.
Seapa lunges around in character as Grindah, but is more docile when the chat ends, even if he does briefly wonder whether they may have made too many sex references.
Facing a course setup and weather conditions that were far more docile than in Saturday's third round, Koepka moved to the front quickly by birdieing three of the first five holes.
Sociologist Fernando Domínguez Rubio draws distinctions between "docile" and "unruly" works of art—the more unruly an object, the tougher it is for a museum to stabilize, classify, and showcase it.
Incorporating electric lime greens and less-than-docile indigo blues, the majestic arena of Saint-Eustache evolves into an enthrallingly accessible starry night—all set to the tune of cathedral's organ.
He had assumed that the slightly vapid teenager he was settling for would at least be docile, but she turned out to be the biggest bully he had encountered since Gordonstoun.
Ms. Rivera, the mother of two of Mr. Hernandez's children, offered a description of her former husband that contrasted sharply with his lawyers' portrayal of him as docile and simple-minded.
Beanpole's seemingly docile acquiescence to her friend is more opaque, her motives emerging over a story that eventually involves Masha's ridiculously insistent suitor (Igor Shirokov) and a soulful doctor (Andrey Bykov).
It underscores the point that a woman's most important life goal is to find a man to marry, and that being quiet and docile is an effective way to achieve that.
Mr. Bruno, known as the Gentle Don or the Docile Don, was succeeded briefly by Philip Testa, who was called Chicken Man, apparently because of his links to the poultry business.
"Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it sends a signal that women are ... docile and eager-to-please helper," a report from the UN noted earlier this year.
The secrecy about off-shore matters and refugees is a case in point, and Australians have accepted that secrecy in a shamefully docile manner along with the extraordinary cruelty toward refugees.
His favourite local story mocked docile villagers on the Rock of Caldé who, even as the village and its church bells were sinking underwater ("Dong…ding…dop…plock…"), insisted they weren't drowning.
It's homogenized garbage, and that's what they're peddling in order to keep people docile so that the machine can keep making money and we can keep existing in this bizarre dark age.
" Exaggerated reports of non-dangerous gator encounters over the weekend have validated Warner's fears that the media will continue to portray the usually docile American alligator as a "scary and dangerous thing.
That desire for delicious food cooked by Black hands—especially from a "safe" and docile caricature like Aunt Jemima—could be part of the term's appeal for some white people, Taylor added.
Getting into a club in New York these days is kind of like waiting in line for a movie theater—a relatively docile, well-behaved affair, usually involving claiming pre-ordered tickets.
In March's book, Christine Penmark starts to have concerns about her 8-year-old daughter, Rhoda — outwardly docile and well behaved — after one of her classmates dies suspiciously on a class picnic.
I mean that pumpkin spice became special by shamelessly insisting that it was and ruthlessly creeping into every corner of the culture that was docile, dippy or lazy enough to accommodate it.
There was some debate over whether Félicette finally made the cut because of her docile nature and because the rest of the cats had put on weight, but she was ultimately chosen.
Credit...Victor Llorente for The New York Times What if the Roman Empire — with all its decadence, corruption and power-grabbing rulers left unchecked by an oddly docile Senate — never really ended?
The organization routinely monitored dozens of incidents every year involving law enforcement and Asian-Americans due to racist perceptions that we're passive, docile, and never litigate or protest official misconduct or mistreatment.
"Video footage recorded this man walking on the shallow shelf, potentially stressing and crushing pupfish, which are slow-moving, docile, and as they have no natural predators, curious by nature," park officials said.
I open the house's plexiglass sliding door, use a pair of long tweezers to grab the most docile bee I can spot, and drop the loaded tweezer into a specially constructed wooden rack.
A warning about the power of surveillance to mould a docile society (the book saw a massive spike in sales back in 2013 following Snowden's revelations about America's National Security Agency's spying program).
" In an email, Hocher told the outlet, "These animals are considered quite docile but can and do bite on occasion, normally when they mistake a hand or fingers for a piece of food.
"We regret that the representative of the United States and its docile allies continue to bring to this forum matters that are outside the mandate of the CD," he told a news briefing.
"Life Without Loops" is the new slogan, and the copy that follows explains how the hosts are aware the park was a trap to keep them docile — and that they've taken control now.
Once docile the toads can be laid on top of one another in a ridiculous pile, though this neither solves the "we have too many frogs" problem, nor does it seem entirely safe.
This facade usually passes muster with the docile American media but foreigners often see through the ruse — especially when Gershman publicly practically calls for ousting elected foreign leaders such as Russia's Vladimir Putin.
The most common, the fennec fox, is an adorably petite pack animal that is pretty docile — though it is still important to note that even these tiny furry friends are not fully domesticated.
In recent months, Brazil's long-docile antitrust watchdog has shocked executives by rejecting two high-profile planned takeovers this year, leading companies in the industrial and services sectors to mull alternatives to mergers.
The unfortunate woman who found the snake was so taken aback she was still shaking when Harrison left her property, he said, but the snake catcher soon realized the huge reptile was docile.
" Rosalind Chao took on roles like a laundryman's daughter in a Lucille Ball TV series and a docile Korean bride who talked about eating dogs in "M*A*S*H" and "After MASH.
Avedon revolutionized the field; he brought an end to the era of the docile mannequin posing stiffly in this season's clothes — his women leapt off the page; they danced and tumbled and communicated.
And while Aggretsuko is playing off a docile, nostalgic Japanese figure that many Americans probably aren't familiar with, her frustration and the crevasse between one's work self and one's true self is universal.
" He went on to describe Scalia's monumental impact on constitutional law, noting that he was "docile in private life but a ferocious fighter when at work, with a roar that could echo for miles.
In the early 2000s, Lek filmed undercover footage of what it takes to break an elephant's spirit and turn a wild Asian elephant into one docile enough to give rides and perform at shows.
"This docile boy, 13 years of age and 24 pounds in weight, was suffering from some of the most severe matting on a feline that we have seen in years," says the Facebook post.
Cole, an NL All-Star last year while going 19-8, had more than enough to work with as the Padres' bats were docile after scoring 13 runs in the series' first two games.
Long story short, I managed to hoard the meds they'd been feeding me to keep me docile, and once I felt alert enough I led a revolt to break us out of the compound.
From the outside, it's clear that Turkey's arts and culture are not exempt from the well-oiled machine of coercion that's speeding the country toward Erdoğan's ultimate goal of engineering a docile, self-censoring society.
What's being fed to people is what's always been fed to people since when black people were belonging to people in this country; the advertisements were of docile nice Negros who did what you said.
Melania and Ivanka provide good cover for Trump's misogyny because they're palatable, conventionally feminine women: They're docile and poised, they don't make demands of men, and they are above all conventionally beautiful -- white and thin.
"Video footage recorded this man walking on the shallow shelf, potentially stressing and crushing pupfish, which are slow-moving, docile, and as they have no natural predators, curious by nature," the National Park Service said.
A system designed to keep us docile while extracting value from every aspect of our dulled existence is both an extremely rough plot summary of the 1999 film The Matrix and a description of Facebook.
While women exercising in public is rare in the Arab world and the local entertainment industry often relegates them to docile roles, big companies such as Nike have stepped up advertising geared towards female athletes.
People worry that men will now cut women out of business altogether, but they weren't welcoming them into positions of power when everyone was docile and silent, so it's obviously time to try something new.
To see her become a vengeful rebel (who drinks!) after so much time being a docile Borg drone made an odd sort of sense to me, especially given how much she had clashed with Janeway.
American security guarantees over the last few decades have kept Israel's neighbors relatively docile, if not precisely friendly, and nearly a quarter of Israel's annual defense budget is effectively paid for by the United States.
Over the 19th and part of the 20th centuries, ranchers confined and crossbred bison with cattle in the hopes of creating livestock with the bison's drought-resistant traits and cattle's docile nature, according to du Toit.
"I think a 'listening woman' face means that we think that we're supposed to be a little bit more docile and sort of understanding in that way that you're doing with the head turn," Camerota said.
The masses are kept docile by an endless stream of game shows, but none is more famous than The Running Man, which pits convicted criminals against seasoned assassins, with a pardon waiting if the victims survive.
They are, in short, a relatively docile species—restricted, perhaps, by the quality of the water, by their natural predators and pathogens, by the shallowness of the river basin, or by factors we haven't yet identified.
In contrast with the prosecution's depiction of him as a mercurial and controlling figure, the defense sought to show Mr. Hernandez, who sat stoically through the trial, as docile and suggestible, especially after hours of interrogation.
At first I thought it was maybe a joke but then all of these guys on the staff who had so much bravado and would suddenly become so docile with certain clients purely out of loyalty.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's long-docile antitrust watchdog has shocked executives, lawyers and bankers by rejecting two high-profile planned takeovers in recent weeks, leading cash-starved companies to mull alternatives to mergers including share offerings.
I remember attending my first open-casket funeral and peering down on the docile, lifeless body of Everett, an old farmer whose summer straw scent and peaceful demeanor had left a distinct impression on my inexperienced mind.
Symbiosis is held in Oakdale, California just a couple of weeks after The Burn, when most festival-goers are mentally limber and physically docile, their bodies frosted with Playa dust and their arms splayed open to strangers.
Wearing a long, heavy rope of braided hair, signaling the crew's many years in space, Dibs has a criminal past, too, but she also has dominion over the other crew members, whom she medicates to keep docile.
I hated how docile and submissive I had become, especially when it came to my body, and I thought playing the role of a domme might help me actively rework my wiring and my relationship to societal expectations.
She's always sitting in the same spot in the permanent collections galleries; she's perpetually wearing the same blue dress and sandals, even as the seasons grow colder; her docile little dog is constantly curled up at her feet.
These actions, they believe, are being carried out in order to tactically breed a country of mixed-race citizens who, by virtue of their nonwhite blood, are duller and more docile to the predatory machinations of Jewish will.
As such, "Blade Runner 2049" stands in relation to "Blade Runner" almost exactly as K stands in relation to Deckard before the two meet: as a more docile, less rebellious "improvement," tweaked and retrofitted to meet consumer demand.
In that book, lower-caste citizens are given a drug to keep them docile and satisfied with their lot in life; in Metropolis, androids are dosed with a gas called "Nevermind" that wipes them of ties to their humanity.
And he postulates that it is all part of a system of social control, in which young people are loaded up with debt and then pushed into meaningless jobs in order to pay it off, thereby keeping them docile.
Their more docile offspring would eventually be bred into most of the cattle types we know today, although it's believed there were other domestication events after that, including one that gave us the humped zebu cattle of South Asia.
"Juma was a docile animal used to living among people at the center," the army said in a statement, adding that soon after the ceremonies, Juma escaped from his leash and fled into the zoo maintained by the center.
She was the mysterious hooded figure who rescued an endangered Andrea (Laurie Holden) by slicing through the undead as two docile "walker" pets stood behind her in chains — a startling entrance that signaled the arrival of a fierce warrior.
An ecstatic grin spread across the woman's face as she cradled the docile bird in her hands; as Carlen would later note, people tend to feel a sort of primal joy when given the rare opportunity to handle wildlife.
The main theme of Barra's testimony was that the old GM—with a docile, nodding bureaucratic culture that swept problems under the rug—had died with the company's 2009 bankruptcy, bailout, and restructuring and that the new GM was different.
Saturday's Vatican statement said the pope expected the bishops to be "docile and humble" at the meetings in order to determine "collective and individual responsibility for these devastating wounds" and implement long-lasting changes to avoid a repeat of abuse.
"Juma was a docile animal used to living among people at the center," the army said in a statement, adding that soon after the ceremonies ended Juma escaped from his leash and fled into the zoo maintained by the center.
Click here to view original GIFIf you get queasy even on a docile Ferris Wheel, you'll want to avoid a ride called the Tagada at all costs next time you're at a carnival in Myanmar looking for a cheap thrill.
The assistants enable the notion that "women are obliging, docile and eager-to-please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a blunt voice command," says a report by UNESCO, the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
We later learn that it has been the site of intense political protests in previous weeks, but for now, it is a docile space where people eat lunch and mill around in the shadow of a monument to their being free.
Aimed squarely at the new-rider segment, its more docile handling and updated styling never really found the audience enjoyed by the original SV. In an effort to bring back the original magic, Suzuki has brought back the SV for 2017.
The modern condemnation of religion has followed the Marxian rebuke that religion is an opiate administered indirectly by state power in order to secure a docile populace — one that accepts poverty and political powerlessness, in hopes of posthumous supernatural rewards.
Much like the panic over TV-glued children in the 1950s and '60s, today's parents are concerned over a far more unpredictable kind of screen time while also being thankful for its unique ability to keep kids quiet and docile.
" At 14, he first joined a Chicago-based skinhead group when, while smoking a joint in an alley, a man came up and told him that "the Jews and the communist want me to do drugs so I stay docile.
A legend both inside and outside the boxing ring, Ali spoke out against the Vietnam War and found solace and power in his Muslim faith despite facing societal pressure to stay quiet, docile, manageable — which, of course, was never Ali's style.
This is because the monkey is seen to be intelligent and lively – characteristics that are more desirable than the previous zodiac sign of the goat (or sheep) which is seen to be docile and more likely to be a follower than a leader.
"There was a little adoption event, which was associated with Best Friend Animal Society, and I saw this really skinny, beautiful Husky with these blue eyes, and he was so docile," the Lucifer star 35, tells PEOPLE of when she first met Eli.
Once he has won her, Petruchio resorts to more primitive methods to control Katherina, such as denying her food and clothing, and, in the end, she is remade as an ideal wife: docile, dependent on Petruchio's attention and his power over her.
In his immensely valuable Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1952), Jaspers explained that an authoritarian leadership must always depend upon a docile citizenry, one that willfully seeks the simplest possible answers and can reassuringly blame one or several accessible scapegoats.
Somalis have used Twitter to analyze and critique racism and Islamophobia; we've contributed to the #BlackLivesMatter conversation, we've raised awareness about the #SomaliaDrought, and we've rallied behind #SomaliXishood (xishood means "shyness") to critique the expectations for Somali women to be docile and quiet.
In the 875-meter chase through the narrow streets of the city a half dozen, specially bred, aggressive bulls, led by six larger, more docile steers race from their pen to the city's bull ring as runners dodge horns and stampeding hooves.
"Mexican justice is usually a docile creature in the face of the upper class and ferocious against those who occupy the lowest levels of our social structure," wrote inequality expert Ricardo Raphael in newspaper El Universal, according to comments quoted in the Guardian.
At first sight, it was a picture of prim, docile suburbia: 41 two-story homes, each with a tidy lawn and a garden fence, lined a quiet road with a shiny bike rack at one end and a speed bump at the other.
Not in an "X-Files" way — in fact, after dabbling in extraterrestrial theories, Cooper eventually thought U.F.O.s were "possibly the single greatest hoax in history," just another threat fabricated to keep a docile public in thrall to an increasingly one-world government.
"'Blade Runner 2049' stands in relation to 'Blade Runner' almost exactly as K stands in relation to Deckard before the two meet: as a more docile, less rebellious 'improvement' tweaked and retrofitted to meet consumer demand," A. O. Scott wrote in his review.
REUTERS - India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni lamented a "very bad day" for his spinners after the tourists failed to defend a big total on a docile Perth pitch in the five-wicket defeat to Australia in their opening one-day international on Tuesday.
"Among the gravest disappointments of this year was not finding out how awful a president Donald Trump has turned out to be, but rather how docile the Congress has been," said Representative Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee.
She acknowledges that "women are socialised to be docile and accommodating and to put men's desires before their own," but seems to suggest that women's responsibility "to be more verbal" in sexual encounters is equal to men's responsibility to not pressure women into sex.
A comic genius, Lucy used slapstick and crocodile tears to combat her husband's machismo — and when you look at how Latina actors in her position are still forced to play stereotypes of the docile wife or the sexy spitfire, that still looks radical today.
Despite a brief flare-up of controversy that preceded it, a conversation between Milo Yiannopoulos, the incendiary right-wing author and lecturer, and Bill Maher, the comedian and host of HBO's "Real Time," on that program Friday night was a largely docile, chummy affair.
In her work, as on the internet, we are all active creators and docile consumers: spectators are tasked with cobbling together their own personal narrative from the multiple screens, just as online users are simultaneously enjoying and co-constructing the social media worlds they inhabit.
Along with dozens of diplomats, ambassadors and a neat line of docile British government ministers, I sat in the dazzling Louis XIV style splendor of Lancaster House in January, taking in not just her long-awaited Brexit vision, but a full on whiff of the mansion's grandeur.
While Strong frames the horrible conditions for the working poor in cities like Dubai as an alternative to "selling your daughter into sex slavery" many SEZs disproportionately employ young women out of the belief that they'll be more docile and accepting of being taken advantage of.
She moves effortlessly from Hollywood screen sirens in tight sweaters to frumpy aunties in high-necked blouses, from pin-up models in string bikinis to dishwashing housewives in rubber gloves, from efficient French maids in starched white aprons to docile BDSM submissives in bras and panties.
This alienating psychosocial development, sometimes known as "reification," conditions the members of a society to be docile and contemplative once they have conceptualized their existence in terms of a commodity, functioning passively and moving "automatically," one more object in the capitalist sphere of everyday production and exchange.
"The Russian president was obviously out-playing the American president," commentator Mikhail Rostovsky wrote at the widely circulated tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets, comparing the docile Trump in Helsinki to the "rude and boorish" showman who had insulted Angela Merkel, Theresa May, and Queen Elizabeth in short order the prior week.
" In 25, Turing's colleague Irving Good pointed out that brainy devices could design even brainier ones, ad infinitum: "Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
Though he never states it outright, Freeman's inclusion of poetry by a Foxconn worker who committed suicide in 2014 telegraphs where his allegiances lie: They've trained me to become docile Don't know how to shout or rebel How to complain or denounce Only how to silently suffer exhaustion.
This whole idea that there has to be a token and that the token has to be super perfect — I think that it stems from racism and this idea that you have to be a certain kind of cooperative, well-mannered, docile Black person or else, they'll replace you.
Orientalism is a foreign ambassador in an Arab city belittling popular concern about Palestine and depicting Arabs as a docile mass who only woke up in 2011, during the Arab revolts, and then reverted to being a disappointment to a benevolent West that merely seeks to be a good tutor.
She makes her way among the masses of supposedly pissed off yet smiling protesters, who brandish offensively inoffensive signs, grabs a can of Pepsi, and hands it to a police officer who takes a sip and smiles (presumably due to the relief of dealing with a such docile group of protesters).
According to the Huffington Post, Los Angeles-based artist Plastic Jesus pulled the stunt Wednesday morning, plastering black wooden bars over the star with a little bit of industrial grade double-sided tape—a relatively docile prank, compared to the criminal charges Austin Clay faced for smashing the thing in July.
"In the past, miners have been quite docile and compliant, partly because they lacked the technical sophistication to launch attacks, and partly because there weren't that many options on which coins to attack," Emin Gün Sirer, an assistant professor researching distributed systems at Cornell University, told me in an email.
The King of Bahrain, who knows a thing or two about clearing the streets of critics, invited reporters in for the start of his meeting with Mr. Kerry last month, and, with a deep understanding of how to keep them docile, fed them at the palace before they were packed off.
But in her memoir, Ms. Springora has done more: She has unveiled the inner life of one of the children "Under 16 Years Old," as one of Mr. Matzneff's books was titled — one of those who, until now, inhabited his world as simply a docile character to be acted upon.
One difference today, though, is that the VIX has been so docile as a polarizing, rule-breaking president prepares to assume office and seems bent on upending decades of normal governing procedures and recasting the tax and health care systems, while questioning some core tenets of postwar Western trade and security relationships.
According to a groundbreaking 153 report by the Center for Combatting Terrorism that cited transcripts of US military interviews with captured Iraqi Shiite militiamen, recruiters look for traits that include "open-mindedness," physical stamina, maturity, organizational skills, and "responsibility" in individuals who are relatively docile and don't ask a lot of questions.
And somehow, it still makes so much sense to think of Fisher as part of a mother-daughter dynamic—not as a docile caretaker or a fragile child on the edge, but as an empowering figure, a nurturer, the wise old General Organa handing off the lightsaber to a younger generation of self-possessed women.
An industrious player who reads every in-game email might have realized that Abstergo are basically a fantastical Illuminati who put docile drugs in the drinking water, want to control minds by putting a mystical artifact in a satellite, and who want to create a super corporation that dominates the chemical, biological, and entertainment industries.
Days after return to Dubai, her friends released a video she had made before her escape in which she accused her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, of a range of offenses, including having people killed and having her and one of her sisters locked up, tortured and drugged to keep them docile.
For much of the past century in this country, this undesirable alien — seen as being from someplace foreign and in need of deportation back there — stood accused of invading to stir up trouble where there was none, where previously the locals had been docile and willing to accept whatever everyday inequality was their lot.
The question is whether Elliott can win in Japan, where corporate governance remains comparatively docile, and whether it has learned any lessons operating in Asia after the firm suffered one of its few major defeats in South Korea a few years ago when it failed to block Samsung from merging two of its affiliates together.
Shakespeare's Caliban is charismatic and poetic, and it's easy for a reader to imagine that he might have his own compelling point of view on the play, but Shakespeare's Miranda is essentially a blank slate, a docile tool for her father to use in his fantastic plots; she doesn't have any inner life of her own.
Take, for example, the sanitized version of Martin Luther King Jr. that most school kids learn about: Most of us were taught MLK was this docile visionary who gave the ultimate feel-good speech, but never that he was a radical anti-capitalist and anti-war activist who really interrogated the concept of whiteness and white privilege.
In her campaign to change how Hollywood — and the broader American culture — treats women, she has ruefully recalled how many men of her generation have told her that their favorite performance was her turn as Linda, the docile checkout girl from "The Deer Hunter," according to a new biography, "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep," by Michael Schulman.
There's also Luther (Evan Parke), Kara's sidekick from the mid game on, who feels like a response to Heavy Rain's violently primal, "Mad Jack," extended so far in the other direction he embodies a different, yet equally familiar trope: the docile, magical negro, who steps out of the role of serving a human master only to immediately switch to serving Kara and Alice.
Not only does Fallon have a reputation for avoiding politics on The Tonight Show (in contrast to many other late-night hosts), but he was the target of a hefty backlash in September after conducting an overwhelmingly docile interview with the then-presidential candidate (which notoriously featured the host mussing Trump's hair like he was cozying up to an adorable puppy).
We soon learn why: Wyatt and his boss, Megarecords CEO Fiona (Parker Posey, who gives a hilariously destabilizing performance as a campy girlboss who also really wants friends — completely at odds with her status as a serious indie star) have been working with the U.S. government to send subliminal messages to teens through music in order to keep them docile and compliant consumers.
"Very literally," he writes, "Americans teach their children to understand the intrusion of rampaging killers with assault rifles as a random force of nature analogous to a fire or an earthquake": This seems designed to foster in children a consciousness that is at once hypervigilant and desperate, but also morbid and resigned — in other words, to mold them into perfectly docile citizen-consumers.
I'm convinced televised golf is just a government ruse to keep dads quiet and docile—cheaper and less dangerous than lacing their water supplies with bromide, and if you hit a dad with a golf tournament and then an F1 qualifier on the same day, he will basically be quiet and pliant for up to and including a week—and so by extension it is exceptionally uncool.
In an interview, Ms. Weinstock described how the money had been put to use: new "mobile adoption centers" — vans from which more than 22014 animals were adopted last year; a food pantry for pets in the Bronx; a behavioral staff of 22 that, among other things, runs the playgroups, which the shelter says improve the dogs' immunity and make them more docile and adoptable when they return to their kennels.
But much of their treatment reflects the conditions of public mental health care in a rampantly medicalized model of treatment: Many KTU detainees are overly medicated, they allege—and as detainee advocates like Dr. Peggy Mustelier, a clinical psychologist and FOMDD vice chair, and her colleagues at FOMDD note, this regime of pharmaceutical mood management is engineered to render detainees docile, and to dampen the intense rage they feel.
Amma makes several references to feeling unwell over the course of the season and until Adora's poison was revealed it seemed like her sickness was just a side effect of her drinking and drug use, but the stark difference between Amma's lethargic daytime behavior and her nighttime energy may actually be a result of Adora "treating" her daughter's hangovers with The Blue, rendering Amma more docile and doll-like until the poison wears off.
GM is, after all, a company that went bankrupt just seven years ago and survived only with the help of a federal bailout; a company whose board of directors was described by President Obama's auto czar, Steven Rattner, as "utterly docile" in the face of impending disaster; a company that has been the butt of jokes about its lackluster, unreliable, macho cars for years; a company that churned out Hummers while Toyota gave us the Prius.

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