Word: compliantly
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...other controlled substances to patients who are his friends; he also lends his friendly nurse to some of them. On the other hand, he pulls the plug on a cranky old man who annoys him. Unsteadily launched on his second marriage, Ray fools around with a succession of compliant women, while visions of high-heeled nudes out of Penthouse dance in his head. He looks back longingly to his days as a fighter pilot in Viet Nam: "The only glory I see is the glory I saw as a jet fighter." Ray is, in short, an extremely bad good...
...Lebanon, the Palestinians' main base of operations. According to participants in the negotiation, Assad was blunt with P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat. "Is it marriage or divorce?" he asked. Unwilling to risk a break with such an important ally, the P.L.O. sent its regrets with "sorrow." Lebanon was also compliant, recognizing that it would be thrown into chaos if Syria ever pulled out its 22,000-man peace-keeping force...
...more decade to face our troubles. But technological gadgetry is not enough to solve the human failings that have placed us in this predicament; maybe nothing is enough. Maybe there's just personal salvation: in a life spent trying, a life spent setting a non-violent yet non-compliant alternative to the irrational as it builds from every side and all around, a life fighting battles that can't be won. Maybe man had no chance of ever shaping the wave, of preserving its curl, but the delusion that he did brought him closer to it. And had we been...
...Pictures are made the way the prince gets children," Picasso remarked a little later, "with the shepherdess." In Marie-Thérèse, he found a shepherdess?a placid, ill-educated and wholly compliant blond, who had never heard of him or his work, and offered nothing that even Picasso's egotism could interpret as competition. She became an oasis of sexual comfort. His images of Marie-Thérèse reading, sleeping, contemplating her face in a mirror or posing (in the Vollard suite of etchings) for the Mediterranean artist-god, Picasso himself, have an extraordinarily inward quality, vegetative and abandoned...
...women gain self-respect, they are less willing to play the dominated role. Men (and women) seeking to dominate in sex don't have to look far to find a compliant, docile partner. Who could be less threatening than a child; who could be more handy than their child...