Sentence examples for more submissive from inspiring English sources

In this situation, we predicted that fish raised with older conspecifics would behave more submissively in general, and in particular would show more submissive behaviour towards the dominants in the vicinity of a prospective breeding cavity.

Mr. Izzard's performance is smart and sensitive, but it generally feels more submissive than subversive.

In America, Newsweek's cover story by Katie Roiphe asked if feminist liberation makes women more submissive in bed.

In contrast, women tend to have a more submissive mindset with lower self-regard and with higher regard for others.

As part of his war on Islamist extremism he wants to foster a version of the religion that is more submissive to the region's regimes.

The sisters won't talk publicly about fears that the Vatican's goal is to push them back toward a more submissive veil-and-wimple past.

The scientists reported that the male McCain voters "felt significantly more controlled, submissive, unhappy and unpleasant".

"An independent woman is a threat to the supremacy of the male ego…when women become independent, they are no more as submissive as before," she explains.

"At its best," Mr. Poirier wrote of Mailer, "his writing exemplifies the kind of effort that can and needs to be made by anyone who proposes to make more than submissive sense of the world as it now is".

Those who voted for a losing candidate felt significantly more controlled, submissive, unhappy, and unpleasant at the moment of the outcome than did those who voted for the winning candidate, which corroborates past research [31].

Best known for their team-up with the Moments on 1975's sublime single Girls, this Baltimore symphonic soul troupe specialised less in socially conscious R&B, a la Marvin Gaye, and more in submissive-male pleas for affection, such as the US hit I'll Erase Away the Pain.