Sentence examples for slavish commitment from inspiring English sources

But Oakeshott stresses that one must, through education in its history, be "released" from slavish commitment to one's tradition, and then return to it newly enriched and informed.

Asked about John Boehner's slavish commitment to his Tea Party tyrants, Will merely remarked, "He has a constituency," which translated to the commoner means he may not be right to do what he's doing, but has the right to do it.

It is rare because Christianity is more commonly cynically used in our political life and has been since the rise of the religious right who would have us believe that followers of Jesus are marked by their homophobia, sexism, assorted other bigotries and slavish commitment to a government subsidized "free" market for the wealthy.

But does that require slavish loyalty to the bankers?

Slavish opposition is just as liberty-sapping as slavish endorsement.

Revivals are seldom slavish imitation.

They had a slavish following".

"Weak" poets, slavish imitators, fell out of the equation.

It justly deserves our reverence, but not slavish orthodoxy.

He was never a slavish imitator of the canon.

Is the film too slavish to its subject?