Sentence examples for her subservience from inspiring English sources

Spastic, puppetlike gestures evoked her subservience to the sorcerer Klingsor.

Giving these women and men information, condoms and legal aid doesn't address the complex drivers of unsafe sex and violence in these relationships – patriarchal gender norms that lead men to believe that women are deserving of violence and that their honour is conditional upon her subservience.

She realizes, too, that many of their exchanges were games meant to test her subservience; feeling vulnerable, Evie passed.

The protagonist Offred, whose name comes from "of Fred" to indicate her subservience to the commander of her household, is comforted in the novel by a phrase she finds secretly carved in her room: "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum".

Every feeble nod or hoarse croak from the subject is received like a pontifical blessing by a tired-looking staff of aging parishioners who, except for la Falaise — a woman who flaunts her well-worn beauty with mermaid nonchalance and whose expression of ironical detachment belies her vigilant subservience — are touchingly unglamorous.

Papp once praised Ms. Aldredge for designing costumes that seemed to develop out of the characters onstage, and she herself insisted on the subservience of her craft.

Yet another question involved Ms. Pryce's religion, also unmentioned in court, and whether she could be found not guilty on the presumption of faith-based subservience to her husband.

Will that subservience lead her to go too far?

She explains that her mother taught her that womanhood need not equal subservience.

For as long as she is the apple of her father's eye, Naomi feels valued within the Orthodox Jewish environment and entertains the possibility that it holds a place for her beyond one of blind subservience to male authority.

And it was love and orderliness, rather than subservience, that made her lay out his clothes each morning with his pen, filled up, in one suit pocket and his cigarette lighter, filled up, in another, and the cufflinks in the shirt-cuffs, and the shoes shined.She applied the same sense of grace and neatness to America.