In the latter world, she's agreeable and submissive in that non-aggressive, quiet, not-as-black sort of way.
Joan Fontaine's Jane, though gutsy enough at home in Gateshead and school at Lowood, becomes unexpectedly submissive in the later reels.
She self-identifies as a supporter of open relationships, pansexual, a submissive in the BDSM community, and continually questioning the constructs of gender.
Always submissive in the extreme towards the younger elephants and to us, she vented her frustrations by creating twisted sculptures out of living trees.
Cheney, who, like the son, had avoided military service in Vietnam, was ostentatiously submissive in the young President's presence, but outside it he called the shots.
Expectant in the 40's, submissive in the 50's, enraged in the 60's, they have arrived in the 70's independent but somehow unstrung, not yet fully composed after all they've been through.
Rihanna told Rolling Stone about her interest in bondage and other sadomasochism activities, themes central to "S&M": "I like to take charge, but I love to be submissive ... being submissive in the bedroom is really fun.
Of the 81 non-prostitutes who preferred or usually preferred masochistic behaviors (termed "submissive" in the survey), 49.4% were women.
You're never going to see a bull stop short, see sense, quit bucking and become submissive in light of the superior athlete sat on its rump.
She comes off as the world's most Machiavellian principal, but she ultimately needs the talents of the best and the brightest — and most incorrigible and least submissive — in order to keep her own position.
