Sentence examples for more subservient function from inspiring English sources

Parables have a more subservient function than myths.

"As Chaplin became more powerful in life, Charlie became less assertive and more subservient.

On the other hand, women are expected to adopt meeker, more subservient postures.

Mr. Daley was a loud critic of recent financial regulatory reforms and has been obsessed with getting Democrats to be more subservient to business.

Investment banking "is an overwhelmingly male environment," Ms. Bagert said, adding: "Women tend to have more subservient roles.

Now a new generation is pushing through, throwing off the more subservient attitudes of their elders and demanding radical change.

In their place he created a more subservient legislature and judiciary, while his intelligence service intimidated critics.

Now, with an agreement reached Tuesday on a plan for the Giants to finance the renovation of the stadium, the Jets may feel even more subservient.

She was, as Szwed reports, unhappy in the role, which she found demeaning, and she thought that she was being directed to make her performance even more subservient.

(Not Saul, says Atlas: he was "put off by McCarthy's intellectual and sexual intensity," "needed more subservient women in order to serve his own shaky self-image" and found "women who challenged his dominance... profoundly threatening").

But in this case, it was this same religious faith-based movement that pushed women from places of intellectual and land-based wealth to a more subservient and oppressed state.