They are puzzled but acquiescent.
It is usual for one partner to have a particular interest in mechanising some of the processes of their work and the other partners may be acquiescent but not enthusiastic.
We are always willingly acquiescent.
But it was flexible, voluntary, happy, acquiescent.
But it has also seen an increased reluctance to be nothing more than acquiescent service wives moved hither and thither without the prospect of a steady career of their own.
We are not an excrescence, as it were, on a generally acquiescent world of legislative measures.
They do not know what they want this place to do other than be more acquiescent towards the executive than its predecessor.
That is much too acquiescent and inflexible a way of doing it.