Sentence examples for servile of from inspiring English sources

Club servants are more to the point; they are the least servile of servants.

It is more than our ordered sense of it, and poetry is the least servile of all our forms.

Despite Mr. Garfein's coaching credentials, the acting is all over the place, ranging from Mr. Gazzara's very accomplished work to what seems to be a failed Peter Lorre impression from Arthur Storch, who plays the most creepily servile of Jocko's recruits.

The perfection of photography, the big screens, the stereo sound, all of it makes possible a servile reproduction of nature; and that reproduction bores me".

That left little more than a servile web of patronage, a recipe for embezzlement of public funds.

Writing in New Zealand Medical Journal, Dr Paula King and Dr Christina Stringer say modern forms of slavery such as forced, underage and servile forms of marriage, and worker exploitation are still largely hidden.

He did not advocate servile copying of the antique or eliminating the persuasive eloquence of acion and intense expression.

It also reinforced the servile status of the peasantry, thus leading to a further deterioration of their condition.

Utah's biggest newspaper reasoned that although he is the state's "favourite adopted son", his "servile courtship of the tea party" and failure "to share specifics of his radical plan" meant that it would back Mr Obama (as it did in 2008).The Republicans' chances of winning the Senate were hurt by more remarks on women and rape from one of their candidates, this time in Indiana.

Party loyalty, not honesty or ability, becomes the first criterion, and the foremost goal of all parties is occupation at all costs, with loyal and servile members of the party".

Nathaniel Hawthorne "He was a small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.