Sentence examples for their submissiveness from inspiring English sources

Thus, both economically and politically, learning is harmful: it distracts the people from their diligent work and diminishes their submissiveness.

But, alas, those candidates are "Evangelical feminists" Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, who play up their submissiveness as good wives, mothers, and, most critically, anti-choice crusaders.

Will Darcy, an American businessman in town with his Indian-British friends Balraj and Kiran, finds lively, ambitious Lalita fascinating, but has offensive, stereotypical views about Indian women, at one point suggesting that his friends who've sought out Indian brides wanted their submissiveness and simplicity.

Can their assertiveness be contrasted so easily with their grandparents' submissiveness and their parents' exhaustion?

And the paradox of their enforced submissiveness and their strength.

In this view, patients are rendered passive in the face of a technology understood only by the experts; in their turn, medical experts' attitudes toward the pre-eminence and efficacy of technology is reinforced by their patients' submissiveness to the authority of that technology.

Along with his revulsion at the hateful rhetoric and murderous tyranny of Southern whites, Micheaux adds a special satirical disgust for a black preacher who offers his parishioners Heaven as a reward for their uneducated submissiveness.

Along with his revulsion at the hateful rhetoric and murderous tyranny of Southern whites, Micheaux displays a special satirical disgust for a black preacher who offers his parishioners Heaven as a reward for their unquestioning submissiveness.

This is seen, for example, in dogs and chimps, who reduce their height to show submissiveness.

It was for the people of Pakistan to decide where their country stands in the global arena, and it was for the people of Pakistan to shake off submissiveness and restore their country's dignity.

They sought to diminish their reliance on gestures that indicated submissiveness — Walter folded her hands on her breast by way of example — and to eliminate automatic vocal patterns.