Adjective : a tractable child; a tractable disposition. From Dictionary.com.
But the problems I have outlined vary in their tractability. From Wordnik.com. [Some Responsibilities Of International Business] Reference
He took more hopeful views of the President's tractability than many others. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Therefore, we looked at them for their tractability to research methodology. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
There's a trade off between accuracy and analytical tractability while modeling. From Wordnik.com. [More on Matt Yglesias, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Now two other givens 1. Models use large grid cells for computational tractability. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #3 « Climate Audit] Reference
On one dimension, we have tractability, as not all issues and problems are equally tractable. From Wordnik.com. [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference
Given the scope, seriousness and tractability of the problems, not a bad set of responses …. dlw. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Middle East: Bloggers React to Obama’s Address] Reference
Perhaps stopping a slaver or two and feeding the serpents fat again would restore their tractability. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
He appeared to have reached that degree of culture that disarms viciousness and softens stubbornness into tractability. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
After all, the choice of model systems based on experimental tractability often determine whethers a hypothesis can be successfully tested. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution of IC: Evolution of Hormone-Receptor Complexity - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A more sophisticated version of this argument might therefore be based on the tractability of disagreement rather than on its mere presence. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Sunao is a Japanese word that usually denotes weakness or tractability in a person, an openhearted innocence and a willingness to be sincere. From Wordnik.com. [Matsushita Leadership] Reference
Zeke's tractability increased the favorable impression already made on the officer by the mountaineer's wholesome face and modest, manly bearing. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
So what happens when one range of tractability (difficult to test/assess) overlaps with one range of emotion (likely to elicit strong emotional responses)?. From Wordnik.com. [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference
Most modern people just do not provide them with a proper, long-term home–but that is HUMAN error, and has nothing to do with the tractability of a wolf. From Wordnik.com. [cattle:aurochs::dogs:wolves?] Reference
Second, we may grant that considerations of tractability reveal that scientific and mathematical standards are more truth-conducive in their respective spheres. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
As a consequence, these theoretical models combined enough richness and tractability to be applied normatively for decisions in practice and positively in empirical tests. From Wordnik.com. [Robert C. Merton - Autobiography] Reference
Durbeyfield was only too delighted at this tractability. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
Almost as a little child in tractability was Justice Hare. From Wordnik.com. [East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter] Reference
Mrs Durbeyfield was only too delighted at this tractability. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
I need not have been so surprised as I was at his tractability. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Jim] Reference
Compared with her, Lady Ogram seemed mere ingenuousness and tractability. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference
The tractability of animals is not indeed at all connected with their docility. From Wordnik.com. [The Bee, or, Literary weekly intelligencer [microform] : consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic : a work calculated to disseminate useful knowledge among all ranks of people at a small expense] Reference
Nothing can be guaranteed about the motives and tractability of the regimes in Iran. From Wordnik.com. [The Torch] Reference
Would that my sister added to her many great qualities the humble one of tractability!. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle] Reference
For the sake of tractability, I have split the data into separate tables for each year. From Wordnik.com. [Ask MetaFilter] Reference
Another is her tractability, though I hate to hitch so big a word on to so small a lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Child] Reference
Once you introduce psychology into economics, the tractability to solution goes way down. From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
"That's all, sir," he snarled, displaying his empty palms in token of his absolute tractability. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Bag] Reference
Years later, after driving many fine leaders, I still awe at this dog's obedience and tractability. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to India is changing] Reference
Such tractability could include telling feds where all the money is, including the money set aside for his family. From Wordnik.com. [GlobalResearch.ca] Reference
To get 200 horses out of a 1. 6-liter engine, you will inevitably leave some refinement and tractability on the table. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It combines the analytical tractability of simple dynamical systems with a more realistic modeling of infection spread. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Yet this very tractability makes of him in good hands, when firmly and intelligently managed, a really desirable tenant. From Wordnik.com. [V. The Italian in New York] Reference
This was gaining ground in the 1970s for similar reasons-an attractive combination of mathematical and ideological tractability. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Mr. Grayson showed every sign of tractability, and they began to feel again that their valuable time had not been expended in vain. From Wordnik.com. [The Candidate A Political Romance] Reference
I would not take advantage of his tractability; but should have declined his assistance, even if it had been spontaneously offered. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference
She has a tractability that alarms me for her; and if she does not pluck up a spirit, and determine never to be put out of her own way, I do not know what may be the. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
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