Sentence examples for be servile to from inspiring English sources
In the camp, Manea's father was concerned above all with moral dignity, refusing to be servile, to participate in the "black market in sentiment" that prevailed there, but Manea's mother was bent on surviving, and Manea was still young enough to agree with her.
Consider again the case of the Deferential Wife described above: her deformed desire is that she wants to be servile to her husband and children.
The Deferential Wife (described in Section 1) who lives in a world in which women are routinely denied educational opportunities and access to the best jobs, and so become economically dependent on men, is more likely to desire to be servile to her husband and children.
In subordinate male monkeys, for example, the stress of being servile to their alpha counterparts causes damage in the hippocampus.
National prosecutors, often criticized for being servile to the sitting president, say they are trying to recover more than $4 billion lost to corruption related to the Gupta family's undue influence on Mr. Zuma's administration.
Now the rumors around Moscow are that Putin will exert pressure on Gusinsky to sell a controlling interest of NTV shares to an owner who is servile to the Kremlin...Only strong and stable countries can afford mediocrity.
They had been servile to my parents and domineering to me, stupid, whining, loud, and forever trying to frighten me with stories of children who had been burned to a crisp or eaten by an ogre because they had disobeyed other Fraüleins.... Anybody who had had a German governess could understand Poland".
Like Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose, they tended to be servile schleppers in bad suits, handlers whose role was to schmooze, and to soothe show-business egos.
Each of these explanations is committed to the thought that acting on a desire to be servile can compromise moral agency.
But apparently they are willing to be servile if it gets them outdoors.
An educated professional from a liberal Indian family, I hadn't been brought up to be servile with men, and eventually, this innate self-belief returned.
