All 3 Uses of
docile
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Aziza watched the proceedings with a docile look.
p. 304..5docile = submissive (easily managed)
- He looked vulnerable, pitiably bewildered, almost harmless. Like someone who had accepted without a sigh of protest the indignities life had doled out to him. Some one both pathetic and admirable in his docility.
p. 325..8 *docility = submissiveness and acceptance
- Mariam remembered the first time she had seen his eyes, under the wedding veil, in the mirror, with Jalil looking on, how their gazes had slid across the glass and met, his indifferent, hers docile, conceding, almost apologetic.
p. 346..8docile = submissive (easily managed)
Definition:
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(docile) easily led or managed -- perhaps submissive or well-behaved