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

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

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

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