Sentence examples for savage servility from inspiring English sources
("A savage servility / slides by on grease").
The memoranda from White House counsel, and from Department of Justice and Department of Defense lawyers, gave new meaning to Robert Lowell's phrase "savage servility".
The pages of "Cars" are littered with inapposite quotations: Everywhere, Giant finned cars nose forward like fish; A savage servility Slides by on grease.
He was one of the finest of that generation of American poets who made their names roughly around the time of World War II, but he never happened upon a signature line, like Lowell's "a savage servility / slides by on grease".
If you were an English major in the 60's, you probably still remember the first time you read "For the Union Dead," with those excoriating last lines:... Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
Lowell's next volume, For the Union Dead (1964), is remarkable for the title poem, which turns on the 'savage servility' of the contemporary United States.
"No servility, my lad, no servility".
Maybe not, but servility is.
