Sentence examples for servile mind from inspiring English sources
Certes, I hold it for a point of a base and servile mind, and wherein there is no goodnesse at all, to chuse rather to be surprised and taken in theft, than to bring home borrowed good, or to repay a due debt, especially when the occupying, use, and interest thereof, hath gained a man as much as the principall.
Lebanon is a freewheeling delight on the surface — as far from Soviet gloom as can be imagined — but it betrays the servile mind-set of powerless people convinced that they are ultimately but puppets.
He decried what he saw as the "irresistible tendency in the Negro mind in this land to dwell morbidly and absorbingly upon the servile past" to the detriment of the needs of the future.
"It's a servile soap opera that an American public desperate for something, anything, to take its mind off the perplexities of the present, seems only too happy to down in great, grateful gulps".
Styron was thus not an obvious candidate to enter into the mind of the black slave, Nat Turner, who in 1831 led the bloodiest "servile insurrection" in southern history, leaving 54 white men, women and children hacked and shot to death.
"Not servile enough," Rihanna says.
Now, however, Graham, whose mind might not have a whole lot of space for pertinent history, thinks this party's identity and survival depend on servile obedience to this president's myopia.
If this servile pantomime of partition is the only story that can be told of our past, then it is a sorry testament to how intensely empire continues to run in the minds of some today.
The servile status of the peasantry increased.
Hence the servile cringe of the February 28 announcement.
