"If she's submissive, it's a radical submissiveness," she said.
That reality, said Kelly, "can have one of at least two effects — make Catholics bold in facing a big challenge or induce a meekness and submissiveness so as not to arouse the hostility of the majority in places where the church's presence is small".
"They have no modesty; they are bold enough to teach, to engage in argument, to enact exorcisms, to undertake cures, and, it may be, even to baptize!" By the year 200, Christian feminism was clearly brought to an end by the text known in the New Testament as Paul's First Epistle to Timothy: "Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.
As opposed to Tylor's "animism," he postulated an impersonal religion, or "animatism," based on "awe," a feeling of "submissiveness tempered with admiration, hopefulness, and even love".
Also, while the agency says it trains screeners to provide security courteously — and a great majority do just that — I sometimes encounter surly screeners who bark orders at passengers, especially in those body-scan lanes that impose a degree of submissiveness.
The main thing I noticed was a very obvious submissiveness.
"And I think I know I have always kind of carried a habit of submissiveness with the idea that it makes me more likable".
Theories abound: Genuine misery due to starvation, art directors who don't want to draw attention away from the goods, attempts to seem superior (primates show teeth as a sign of submissiveness).
Wagner's Christianity is a grim cult of chastity, obedience, order, and war, a Spartan vision of a master race of true believers — a death cult that gains its legitimacy from its possession of relics, a possession that forces them into an iron-clad submissiveness.
At a crucial moment (and with exquisite timing), his grandmother puts on a big show of submissiveness and ingratiation — not an act of cowardice but of bravery — that proves successful.
