Sentence examples for his servile from inspiring English sources

(Jonny Lee Miller's smoldering reserve, by contrast, suits his servile position and clearly illustrates the class envy that drives the sex and the hate).

FR Leavis had his servile Leavisites, Paul de Man had his "Yale School", Christopher Ricks (with whom Kermode boxed and coxed) had his Ricksians.

Thus, because the stole is a yoke around the neck of the priest and he should rejoice in his servitude, on donning or doffing it he kisses the emblem of his servile status.

His servile status in that job is regularly referred to by toff Tory MP Nicholas Soames, who shouts across the Commons floor: "A whisky and soda for me, Giovanni.

Utah's biggest newspaper reasoned that although he is the state's "favourite adopted son", his "servile courtship of the tea party" and failure "to share specifics of his radical plan" meant that it would back Mr Obama (as it did in 2008).The Republicans' chances of winning the Senate were hurt by more remarks on women and rape from one of their candidates, this time in Indiana.

McKeon and his servile staff are hardly alone.

There was the faintest tincture of the Southern slaveowner's disquiet in the aftermath of the bloody slave revolt led by Nat Turner — when the gentleman farmer was left to wonder which of his smiling, servile retainers would have slit his throat if the rebellion had spread as was intended, like fire on parched thatch.

There was the faintest tincture of the Southern slaveowner's disquiet in the aftermath of the bloody slave revolt led by Nat Turner when the gentleman farmer was left to wonder which of his smiling, servile retainers would have slit his throat if the rebellion had spread as was intended, like fire on parched thatch.

Of late, however, Mr. Guha has brought his remarkably servile skill set to the United States, as part of a new "royal attaché service" at the Pierre hotel on Fifth Avenue.

As a former tour-guide at Mormon historic sites, I have encountered more than one fundamentalist Mormon family in which the strutting husband seems to regard his flock of servile wives like glorified property.

His first gig leads him to the most sordid motel west of the Hudson, where he is gang-raped by three giggling mental deficients who seem to have migrated north from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre": a sadistic father (Jerry Lewkowitz) and his two pathetically servile sons (Ethan Suplee and Matt Maher).