Sentence examples for an act of submission from inspiring English sources

For me, it wasn't an act of submission, but a liberation.

The paradox of the Lubavitcher message is that faith, an act of submission, is the ultimate creative action: it will bring about the redemption of the world.

President Khatami, however, had been nearly silent — an act of submission that left many young Iranians cynical about the reform movement.

As such, these faints are less an act of submission than of defiance – an outbreak of "female collectivity", an oddly empowering antidote to the misogynist spectre of the "wandering womb".

Obviously, Professor Johnson views reciting the creed not as an act of submission but as one of subversion: "My aim is to make the creed controversial for those Christians who say it but do not understand it and therefore do not grasp what a radical and offensive act they perform," he writes.

"Waiting is an act of submission, but that's not really a bad thing".

We immediately sense that these are not the vulnerable members of a defeated group laying down arms in an act of abject submission but, rather, still-proud fighters.

The mere fact of Mellors's ejaculation in her vagina brings her peace, simply because hers is an act of deep submission and self-abnegation.

The spot and others in the campaign turned the Marlboro Man narrative upside down, reframing smoking as an act of corporate submission, rather than rebellion.

Manchester United came calling for Arsenal's best player and Arsenal lay on their backs with their legs in the air and fluffed up their stomachs in an act of outright submission.

"It has cool gadgets and hot chicks, and has elevated masturbation to an act of holy submission.... Yes, between the Raëlians and my local synagogue, it would have been no contest.