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The Bush administration plagued itself with unsavory ideological and political hiring standards, resulting in religious fundamentalists running science agencies and tractably corrupt political homunculi filling the ranks of the Justice Department.

Stuart Whatley: The Case For Hypocrisy 2009

To which Socrates: Yes, I perceive that this is so, but it seems to me that the state was never more tractably disposed, never so ripe for a really good leader, as today.

Memorabilia 2007

Why not put forward some possible solutions, or frame the problems more positively, more tractably, as you're obviously muy skilled congrats on the decade since M59 BTW!

Second Life 2006

Helstone's little light hand, however, she yielded tractably, and seemed soothed by its contact.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

She went, being in the clutches of a superior force, tractably enough, but with none of her unconquerable love of country subdued.

Tropic Days 2003

Down the dimly lighted passage she walked rapidly, while the jester tractably and silently followed.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

He came along, tractably enough, sat in the chair that was to have been Wallace's, and talked for a while of the tea, and how hot it was this afternoon, and how beautifully cool in here.

Mary Wollaston Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

He obeyed tractably enough, only turned toward her now and gazed at her with undissimulated intensity; not, though, as if speculating who she might be, rather as if wondering whether she were really there.

Mary Wollaston Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

He followed her tractably enough, but up in her studio before looking at the piano, he asked her a question or two.

Mary Wollaston Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

"What's wrong with my manners!" repeated Dodge, though a bit more tractably.

Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point 1895