Sentence examples for subservience in from inspiring English sources

Reiner's unemotional decisiveness brings out "an answering impulse of subservience" in Damon.

Some of the images of female subservience in Mr. Wheeldon's work are dismaying.

(One is a runaway bride who couldn't face a life of suffocating subservience in a pre-Betty Friedan suburbia).

You must wonder if such subservience in domestic matters and toward Israel is what Americans really want in their chief executive.

Weerasethakul shows migrant workers in a playful skit, Mobile Men (2008), and prods at his country's subservience in The Anthem (2006), a rhapsodic short film.

Of the finalists, Sam is probably the least likely to win purely because he too readily assumes a position of subservience in group tasks.

The D*g in subservience as in chains has no free will, and so — Oh Cherie — is this for me?

After all, schools have traditionally been synonymous with a hushed subservience reflected in the Industrial Age's glib commands: "Do not slouch"; "Respect your elders"; "Speak when spoken to" — notions that some educators still find worthwhile today.

With his implication that the soldier's mother had not spoken because of female subservience expected in some traditional strains of Islam, his comments also inflamed his hostilities with American Muslims.

We pay for them in our white vans and our Daimlers, in our subservience and our anger, in our hatreds and resentments.

"In dignity contexts, feelings of humiliation are triggered in the downtrodden, those who formerly were expected to bow in subservience," says Hartling - a definition which, in the context of the House of Commons, could well encompass backbench women MPs.