Sentence examples for of subservience from inspiring English sources

What's the appeal of subservience?

Appearing with Kanye wasn't, then, an act of subservience.

This new relationships is one of subservience and benign subordination.

Reiner's unemotional decisiveness brings out "an answering impulse of subservience" in Damon.

After centuries of subservience, they understood when they had to accede in order to survive.

She captures movingly the unquestioning loyalty of an antique servant bred into a life of subservience.

The artist's spouse or companion is no longer required to fit the stereotype of subservience.

"The history of British politicians and the press is not one of interference — it is one of subservience," he said.

Kissing a mobster on the hand is a sign of subservience, and a way of keeping a mob boss happy.

The idealized, Christlike character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel metamorphosed into something embarrassing: an emblem of subservience and complicity.

But Ayatollah Sistani's relationship with Iran's mullahs is not necessarily one of subservience or even ideological allegiance.