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Example sentences for: docile

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People do play against type from time to time, but the charge that Reno has suddenly become a docile tool of the White House simply doesn't wash.
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.
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.
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.
He envisioned the parent as the "friendly boss," vigilantly and solicitously manipulating a naturally docile child.