Sentence examples for more servile from inspiring English sources

But Charles Askegard, new as her swain, was more servile than smitten.

The Leipzigers may have wanted more Pan than Phoebus, or at least a more servile and serviceable Phoebus.

This depravity seemed to me more appropriate to the character of a nurse, whose inclinations might be supposed to be more servile.

Analysts believe the current president, Almazbek Atambayev, has worked behind the scenes to bring down the government, in hopes of getting a more servile prime minister.

In the 10th century too, more and more servile tenants gained their freedom, whether legally (by formal manumission) or illegally; a law of Otto III in the 990s that intended to restrict the rights of "slaves gasping for freedom" had little effect.

Those unfamiliar with Ruskin's bias toward the Gothic will be startled by his denunciation of the immortal mannerist Andrea Palladio and his glorious Church of San Giorgio Maggiore: "It is impossible to conceive a design more gross, more barbarous, more childish in conception, more servile in plagiarism, more insipid in result, more contemptible under every point of rational regard".

That left little more than a servile web of patronage, a recipe for embezzlement of public funds.

Thus the family driver, believing in equality and marrying for love, runs away with the family daughter; thus the men wear black tie instead of white to dinner one night; thus a new generation of servants is less servile, more willing to question.

There's always a low man on the totem pole a man who's hardly a man at all but more of some sort of servile ape.

The protection of the many should take precedence over the protection of the money, but Louisiana's servile politicians seem more concerned with protecting cash flow for the most profitable industry in history -- an industry that provides local pols their largest source of campaign lucre.

On liberalism's watch, we have seen a massive concentration of wealth and power; whereas socially, we have witnessed the dismissal and humiliation of working-class people, coupled with the mindless endorsement of mass migration, as if we could replace the servile class with those more compliant.