Sentence examples for utterly subordinate from inspiring English sources

And, in any case, it is difficult to praise effects which have made acting and script so utterly subordinate.

But there's also another element of criticism that marked Mizoguchi's entire career, and it's signalled in the title: the utterly subordinate and strictly governed condition of women in Japanese society.

But we cannot endorse slave societies or societies of castes or societies where women are utterly subordinate without renouncing our own.

The form of the books, both physical and conceptual — their bookness — utterly subordinates the constituent photographs.

The interrogation became a process not just of getting information but of utterly subordinating the detainee through humiliation".

It cannot be described as anything but what it is: evil") and, like the writings of their subordinates, utterly devoid of any acknowledgment that the videos are dishonestly edited to tell a story that isn't true.

General Dumas was majestically tall ("his proportions were those of a Greek hero"), a crack swordsman and horseman ("looking like a centaur"), utterly fearless, generous to subordinates and a loving husband and father.

A subordinate claimed that Van Dorn "did utterly fail and neglect to discharge his duties" at Corinth.

But the awful truth is that Crockett and Tubbs have no inner selves; their friendship is subordinate to professional interdependence and their inner selves are utterly subsumed into the job, and the same goes for their romantic and sexual lives.

USA Today's review concluded: "All the familiar action-flick clichés are trotted out: the backstabbing, politically astute subordinate; the seemingly loony but loyal computer expert; the dabs of family loyalty; the requisite happy ending; the utterly unsubtle plugs for the sequel; the big action scenes.... Resist the hype, parents, booksellers and librarians.

Authority vs. subordinate.