"Resist short-lived fads or slavishness to fashion," she writes, "unless you can afford to discard your entire wardrobe and buy a new one each season." ❋ Pia Catton (2011)
There is one big issue, however, in which the renunciation of “slavishness” could turn out to mean something: Iran. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It's this kind of silly slavishness to every dip and rise of daily polling that makes this country's political journalism so maddeningly superficial and infantile. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Whether such slavishness on the KMT camp's part will lead Beijing to respond with "goodwill" or by taking advantage of the apparent weak-kneed ruling KMT to intensify pressure on Taiwan remains to be seen, but the raising of the spectre of a PRC-Taiwan military alliance warns that KMT-CCP reconciliation may not bring "peace" into the Taiwan Strait after all. ❋ Michael Turton (2008)
Lien-the-pimp deserves my respect for heralding the utter slavishness of that God forsaken island. ❋ Michael Turton (2008)
For to know that father or mother has sinned doth turn the stoutest heart to slavishness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Mouse Print is here to call these greedy stock-holder-centric corporations on there slavishness to the short-term, and their aparatchik “spokespersons”/apologists on their BS. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Where she runs into material she's disinterested by, she makes snide remarks about Brody's slavishness to his subject. ❋ Ed Howard (2008)
What is of absolute consequence is the fact that our media exposed their complete slavishness to the idea of one phone call - or the lack of it - deciding whether the fact that we don't wear nappies anymore on the world stage was noticed by America's next President. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Goodman wrote eloquently about the slavishness expressed in our devotion to experts; Berlin rejected most theorizing about human beings as “grotesque,” and Freire made us understand the disabling effects of allowing certain ideas about ourselves to dominate our minds. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Furthermore, flattery begets harmony; but only by means of the vile offence of slavishness or treachery. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Russia's slavishness and torpor are taken for granted: there is a matter-of-fact mention of the knout, and later of a dowry of fifty serfs. ❋ Unknown (2005)
We accept this amiable slavishness, and praise a woman for it: we call this pretty treachery truth. ❋ Unknown (2006)
‘One might even say, the slave of anti-slavishness,’ ❋ Unknown (2006)
What a proper fund of slavishness is there in the composition of mankind, that histories like these should be found to interest and awe them. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He said : “Communists must always go into the whys and wherefors of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and it is really well-founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.” ❋ Abhay N (2006)
"[Michael's] [Adidas tracksuit] is very Slavish."
"Cheeki-breeki is such a Slavish [word]." ❋ HeavymetalWeeaboy (2018)
She's completely slavish in her prez [comportment].
Another [BO peep]. Her [granny's] granny was a slave. ❋ Ward Smith (2009)
[Masta]: If you don't pick that cotton boy I will whip you good.
[Kunta]: wow, that's really [slavish] of you sir.
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Boss: If you walk in here 1 minute past 8am, you will be terminated. Fired! No more paycheck!
Joe: Wow, that's kind of a slavish move on your part.
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19th Century Slave: They whip me and I gotta pick cotton, no I don't like it, but they give me food , shelter, and water for my family. If I resist they threaten to take away [what I need] to survive.
Guy from future: Wow, that slavish circumstance sounds awfully familiar to the slavish condtion in the twentieth centurty, just more diverse. Is that what they mean by equality? ❋ Pawupclosedotcom (2009)
