Sentence examples for slavish deference from inspiring English sources

You might suggest that rock music's slavish deference to the past and obsession with a mythic "golden era" has got to a pretty disconcerting stage when the hot new US alt-rock band is literally being praised for its lack of originality.

To contemporary readers, such references seem to show a slavish deference to authority and lack of autonomy or originality in the writer.

Again, deference.

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

They had a slavish following".

Revivals are seldom slavish imitation.

The deference is gone".

His achievements demand deference.

There is huge deference.

It implied attunement and deference.

Deference, he says, is out.