Dick exhibited another surprising side to his character. The most compliant of men now became as obstinate as the proverbial mule.英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
[9] "Logic, argument." Or, "a creature more compliant; merely by a word demonstrate to him .英文原著 · 《The Economist》
La Force, compliant as wax to every caprice of Angelique, was secretly fuming at the trick played upon him by the Mischief of the Convent,--as he called Louise Roy,--for which he resolved to be revenged, even if he had to marry her. He and Angelique rode down the busy streets, receiving salutations on every hand. In the great square of the market-place Angelique pulled up in front of the Cathedral.英文原著 · 《The Golden Dog》
"Just as you please," she said, compliantly. No affectation of indifference could have been as baffling as her compliance. Glennard, of late, was beginning to feel that the surface which, a year ago, he had taken for a sheet of clear glass, might, after all, be a mirror reflecting merely his own conception of what lay behind it.英文原著 · 《The Touchstone》
--At this gilded, falsified populace, whose fathers were pickpockets, or carrion-crows, or rag-pickers, with wives compliant, lewd and forgetful:-- for they are all of them not far different from harlots--英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
And you are not ADA compliant, Fiona, so get a handicap ramp out here.美剧 · 《Shameless》