His lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, tried to explain Fritzl's decision to imprison his daughter and force her to submit to his every whim as the act of a devoted father.
Women "recruited" for the squad are forced to live with Kim and submit to his every whim in exchange for $4,000 and home appliances.
"It was submitted to every studio in town," Blatty said.
The risks of restaurant ownership — which include having to submit to the whims of local regulators, fluctuations in food prices and, most terrifying and mysterious of all, changes in consumer taste — can humble even the most disciplined food-service operations.
Meanwhile, Tillerson — who ran one of the world's largest corporations with near-dictatorial control — has struggled to submit to the whims and wishes of a boss who governs by impulse.
Then, on Wednesday, after sending out a string of classic suits, Mr. Saint Laurent started to tug on that string, a little at first (he is a master of making people submit to his whims), and then more, until he had you hooked in some weird little trance.
The next time a black man is put in a choke hold, do you think he's just going to submit to the whims of his attacker or will he try to fight back because he's sure he's going to die?
One of the most mendacious of Williams's characters -- and the playwright, who died gagging on the truth of a plastic bottle cap in 1983, was a mendacity expert -- this lyrical-with-heavy-ballast Blanche relies on lying as the most potent weapon she has to make people with whom she consorts submit to her whims even as she's in heavy denial about the dire straits into which she's descended.
A further impediment was his expectation that the Chosen One would gladly submit to her imperious master's every whim.
Imagine yourself taking a job where, for the first year or two, you have to put up with verbal taunts and physical intimidation from your more senior co-workers; where you are expected to serve their every whim, submit to involuntary head shaving and pick up the tab for thousands of dollars worth of meals that those more senior workers consume.
It adds a competitive aspect (not to say gameification) so you don't feel like you're just submitting to the whim of some game-selling machine (again, an issue many have with GameStop).
