His docility rather than his capacity marked him out to succeed Alva.
Liberty has become a crime punishable by death, and the majority of the population lives in a drug-induced state of docility.
Palgrave, "docile means stupid, well and good; in such a case the camel is the very model of docility.
Other official addresses of the same general tenour flowed in; and even the tribunate showed its docility by proposing that the imperial dignity should be declared hereditary in the family of Bonaparte (3rd of May).
The parlement, which had confused political power with judiciary administration, was given to understand, in the session of April 13, 1655, at Vincennes, that the era of political manifestations was over; and the money expended by Gourville, Mazarins agent, restored the members of the parlement to docility.
