Sentence examples for in a servile from inspiring English sources
The wife in "Did You Move?" is an archetype, a woman frozen in a servile role in a loveless marriage; an actress of warmth and some comic skill was required to make her more than merely pathetic.
So long as there is a dependence upon such labour to maintain the Bīḍānī lifestyle, there remain both expectations by the servant classes that their well-being is the responsibility of the well-born and the long-standing cultural assumption among the Bīḍānī that black Africans belong in a servile role.
The ministrels manipulate the story with coarse explicitness, begging for attention in a servile way, predicting future events in the story and promising that it will be interesting and instructive, shifting scenes obtrusively, reflecting on the characters' motives with partisan prejudice.
"I cannot make a proper bow or act in a servile manner". Lebed's dismissal is a victory for a loose coalition of entrenched and powerful officials, some of them with presidential ambitions of their own, who resented his sudden rise to prominence and his skill at playing the maverick, courting the media, and wooing the voters.
Nearby a video of Mr. Acconci's performance is Ms. Mori's "Tea Ceremony III" (1995), a color photograph of the artist costumed like a robot and behaving in a servile manner in order to question gender roles and notions of female identity in Japan, her native country.
Animals operate in a "servile" manner, in the sense that they respond to their passions without having control over these responses.
These ideals stood in contrast to the role she experienced in reality: a servile "servant" role and the "kind and nice" listening nurse, both at work and in her private life.
In an electrically conniving performance matching evil with charm, Jesse Seann Atkinson enacts the scheming husband who first lures an old classmate into a servile position and then plots a seemingly perfect murder.
Last month, the British historian Simon Schama took aim at "Downton Abbey," denouncing it in Newsweek as an exercise in "cultural necrophilia," a "servile soap opera" and a "steaming, silvered tureen of snobbery".
The next morning, as delegates from his home state jeered him at a breakfast, Mr. Cruz said he refused to fall in line like a "servile puppy dog".
I don't know if I end up in a sort of a servile role after some time, where I'm so incredibly nice, uh, 'Do you want something to eat?', 'Do you want something to read?', 'What can I do for you?', 'How are you feeling?', 'What is wrong?' and such.
