How To Use servility In A Sentence
- The whole of the first act consists of one emphatic jeremiad by Cicero, about the desperate condition of Rome as it then was, its factiousness, its servility, -- a jeremiad which is continued at the end of the act, by the chorus, in rhymed stanzas. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
- It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
- a kind of taffeta-lining to the Crown, his servility has assumed an air of the most determined independence, and he has The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
- Acting the role of considerate host, his cheerful grin removed any suggestion of servility. FINAL RESORT
- Windsor Castle, or the New Houses of Parliament, be assured that loyalty and John Bullism reign there; and, although you meet with no servility, you will not be disgusted with vulgar assumption, such as cocking up dirty legs in dirty boots on a dirty stove, wearing the hat, and not deigning to answer a civil question. Canada and the Canadians Volume I
- Not just the memorization, but the literary culture at the heart of the exercise, was, they claimed, sterile and unfruitful, and promoted a culture of servility harmful to the free creative play of the mind.
- The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
- Bat Ye'or defined dhimmitude thus (my emphasis): dhimmitude [...] represents a behavior dictated by fear (terrorism), pacifism when aggressed, rather than resistance, servility because of cowardice and vulnerability. Archive 2008-07-01
- It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
- These privileges were the reward for the abnegation and servility demanded of Party functionaries.
