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Example sentences for: docile
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Fed a compelling diet of music and images, the consultant and the producer agree, a docile and credulous public will go for just about anything.
It makes one nostalgic for the fear of LSD in the water, fluoride in the water, and saltpeter in the cafeteria food, presumably to create a docile population of human slaves with excellent teeth who keep hallucinating that they're uninterested in sex.
Three years later, Stanley Elkins published the equally monumental Slavery . Though a liberal like Stampp, Elkins accepted the notion of the docile, contented Sambo--though hardly as evidence of slavery's mildness.
Today's Papers has taken a liking to "PHL Gem Dandy," the Chilean female with the cute inky-black face, described as "suitable for use as a companion" and "very docile/willing."
In Diana's case, that's easy, because her husband happened to be an equally self-involved prince who clearly married her because he thought she would be a docile breeder.