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Fleur walked over to stand beside him, giving him a soppy, slavish look that Harry hoped with all his heart would never appear on his face again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
It was this: Even slavish obedience didn’t protect you from punishment. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of inferiority: on the contrary, I just said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
It became de rigueur among architecture critics and historians to argue that Burnham in his insecurity and slavish devotion to the classical yearnings of the eastern architects had indeed killed American architecture. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
‘I won’t say what I started to say. Instead we’ll have one last word about the South. The strangled South. The wasted South. The slavish South.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
Anne was touched by this show of slavish devotion. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
Or will boredom and slavish routine plague us even more than it does today, giving us less of a reason to live limitless lives? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Oh yes, but I know better than to let this capacity interfere with a slavish obedience to orders. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
According to the swimmer Iris Cummings, the slavish nationalism was a joke to the Americans, but not to the Germans. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
“A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect,” roared the Humbug, waving his cane furiously. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z
All this time I waited for answers and got not a one, my slavish devotion answered with silence from her. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
“Be she princess, Overlander, be she? Be she queen, be she?” asked the leader, dipping its head in slavish devotion. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
And that act of parliament specifically stated that monarchy was being abolished because "it was said to produce a slavish people". 'There is now a republican movement': anti-royal campaigners get organised 2013-07-19T17:59:00Z
Yet the music could also be slavish to the Coltrane sound. Review | Saxophonist Azar Lawrence’s Coltrane devotion takes center stage at Blues Alley 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z
Contemporary viewers may have other criticisms, about Reynolds’s slavish imitations of Titian and Rubens. Masterpieces From Scotland Visit the Frick 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z
The commonality between the films is the slavish devotion on the part of the husband/fiancée, the dampening effect that has on a woman’s ardor and the learning curve for the woman. Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg Play Young Marrieds in Celeste and Jesse Forever 2012-08-02T12:00:42Z
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Philosophical nonsense 2012-05-25T11:28:27Z
Her musical response is the opposite of slavish: on the rare occasions that a chord is played forte, her dancers stay still. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz?s ?Untitled (the Blue Ballet)? at the Kitchen 2012-03-10T00:50:47Z
But the sad part is not 's decline; it's that most of the country will continue to watch out of slavish devotion when it should be reallocating its sing-off obsession to BET's Sunday Best. Why You Aren't Watching BET's 'Sunday Best' 2010-05-14T00:09:00Z
Watch them slide from slavish gratitude to contempt as she looks upon her audience, mouthing words about all the love in the room. John Epperson Returns, in ‘Lypsinka! The Trilogy’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z
It’s an achievement of synthesis that never sounds slavish or synthetic. America Has a Problem and Beyoncé Ain’t It 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z
It’s a fine balance between being deferential, but not slavish.” 2010-01-29T08:49:00Z
Its flashes of style are sometimes lively but more often seem, like the slavish period décor, to be desperate attempts to overcome the built-in inertia of the genre. | 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll': Andy Serkis Stars in Ian Dury?s Punk-Rock Story 2010-05-04T22:55:00Z
This selection reveals how some painters refused to follow the slavish aesthetic of the time. Exhibit shows Romanian artists resisted regime 2012-09-28T11:20:16Z
But this film’s impact is hampered by a slavish adherence to chronology and vintage audio materials. Movie Review: ‘Bill W.’ Traces the Early Life of Alcoholics Anonymous 2012-05-27T22:23:08Z
We must not allow the ever-increasing, ever-more-powerful security apparatus to train us in slavish behavior, or our deepest habits will conform to their darkest estimation of our worth. In potential new security measures around White House, an unnecessary intrusion
She seems to prefer an audience reduced to slavish spiritual communion rather than critical engagement. Hand over your cellphone, and obey the gong. Marina Abramovic reinvents Bach. 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z
“The good writers understand that a slavish adaptation is going to make poor drama,” he said. ‘Wolf Hall,’ a Six-Part TV Series, Tackles Hilary Mantel’s Books 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z
“One night, in slavish fear, I got my homework so wrong that it was perfect,” he writes about the experience. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z
But he's not a slavish imitator of any of them. Hey, 'Idol' judges: Give Joshua Ledet his due 2012-05-17T22:34:04Z
In an interview at the SoHo offices of The Onion last week, the network’s creators said they tried their best to imitate what they see as cable TV’s slavish pursuit of ratings and advertisers. Onion News Network?s ?Future: News From the Year 2137? 2010-07-05T21:11:00Z
Of all the world-class choreographers whose work is based on music, nobody has ever been less slavish to the pulse or melody of the score than Ms. Tharp. Dance: Sinatra, Focused on Sex and Sizzle 2010-03-26T23:19:00Z
This entire episode was a triumph of costume and accessory that rivaled “Downton Abbey” for creativity and slavish fidelity to its period. 'The Americans' Recap: Never Break the Chain 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z
This book, with an admiring but not slavish appreciation of its subject, thoughtfully analyzes the controversy that surrounded structuralism even during its glory days. Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z
The closest thing to a message that “Rules Don’t Apply” imparts — that the slavish sycophants bowing and scraping before their master enable his insanity — is hardly new. Review: ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Features Warren Beatty as Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z
Initially motivated by slavish loyalty, and expecting to be rewarded for his sacrifice, Mr. Young wound up leasing a house that he couldn’t afford. 2010-01-29T06:14:00Z
His alliance with the vitriolic right and his slavish admiration for the Army inched the country closer and closer to war. What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z
Now, nobody can ever accuse Oliver Stone of either subtlety in ignoring the political elephant in the room, or in paying slavish attention to historical detail. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z
The earliest pieces of the Op 12 set, composed in the late 1880s and early 90s before Scriabin left Russia, are heavily indebted to Chopin, sometimes to the point of slavish imitation. Scriabin: Travel Preludes – review 2013-07-25T16:30:00Z
Its emergence, however, was all too often thwarted by educational institutions that encouraged slavish imitation over unpredictable originality. Inspiration Made Concrete in ‘Self-Taught Genius’ Exhibition 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z
The dynamic linocuts combine Ms. Ganesh’s talents in fine art and comics by riffing on the story without being slavish. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z
But for me the definitive Curtis role is as this slavish press lackey, scurrying around Manhattan on dark errands for Burt Lancaster's bespectacled arch-villain. Tony Curtis and the part with no heart 2010-10-01T11:59:00Z
It got, instead, a slavish re-creation of the plot-heavy movie screenplay, right down to the same actress types and an endless succession of short scenes that don't translate well to the theater. '9 to 5' at Bank of America Theatre ★★½ 2011-01-20T17:37:55Z
We aim to achieve certain parallels with real political life, but it's not slavish satire. The Thick of It: 'it feels more like politicians copy us' 2012-08-21T23:05:01Z
How does one get into a thing that runs so deep, and whose fans are so rabid, slavish and know-it-all knowledgable? I hate myself for loving the Dead movie 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z
"We're thrilled to be at last in partnership with a creative and producing team that will create a show that is true to the spirit of the film without being a slavish remake." 'Back to the Future' time travels to London stage 2014-01-31T13:19:44Z
A slavish flock of miniature drones plays a crucial role in the plot, and a massive technological breakthrough eventually takes center stage. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z
His slavish devotions to the servile French communists notwithstanding, his true commitment was to the Cézannists. Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z
One scene in which Jobs rinses his feet in a lavatory was taken from truth, however - “gestural not slavish,” said Boyle. Danny Boyle on Steve Jobs: movies must be made about powerful men 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z
Bold and original as a writer, she was slavish in love. Lillian Ross, celebrated New Yorker writer, dead at 99 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z
It wasn’t a singalong or a sacrilege or a slavish, shameless remake. Television Review: Carrie Underwood Stars in NBC’s Live ‘Sound of Music’ 2013-12-06T17:45:01Z
Work is rarely brought home, slavish research not generally his scene. Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy' 2013-03-21T19:00:03Z
However, there is now another contender for the title – the infinitely more expensive Vampires Suck, a witless, slavish pastiche of the series of romantic dramas based on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels. Vampires Suck ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z
Describing her husband, Zadie remarks that “his finance career required slavish devotion — the sacrifice of one’s firstborn, the swearing of blood oaths.” A Story of Two Doctors, and a Secret Between Them 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z
The range of items is impressive, dominated, naturally enough, by objects culled from science-fiction and superhero films that trigger slavish fan devotion. Back to the Future hoverboard on sale at movie prop firm’s first live auction 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z
They keep the music sounding largely organic without making the album a slavish period piece. New Music: Albums From Real Estate, Linda Perhacs and Nick Waterhouse 2014-03-03T23:08:37Z
Ambrose's general view seems to be that the slavish pursuit of one's sexual impulses at whatever cost to anyone else is a definition of heroism. Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages by Tom Ambrose | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z
The documentary reviews the band’s chronology like a slavish yet intermittently lucid Wikipedia entry. ‘a-ha: The Movie’ Review: The Creative Purgatory of the ‘Take on Me’ Trio 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z
And when was it, exactly, that female reporters on television adopted slavish sleevelessness as their compulsory fashion statement? The Mirror: Michelle Obama and the Exposed Arm 2012-09-28T18:12:32Z
In reporting on the slavish devotion of Caesar’s plebeian backers, Casca observes that “if Caesar had stabbed their mothers,” they would continue to pledge their undying love. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z
It's a moment typical of both Rowling's inventiveness and empathy and of the films' degree of fidelity to Rowling — smart but not slavish. 'Potter' closes out franchise with a bang 2011-07-13T15:24:00Z
And that’s a great part of the success of the design: It is faithful to both fundamentals and details, without being slavish or pedantic. Subtle changes make a big impression at the National Gallery East Building 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z
She showed a slavish devotion to the concept of a recommended serving size, even when it was half a cupcake.” Books of The Times: ?The Beginner?s Goodbye,? by Anne Tyler 2012-04-05T20:53:51Z
But the conventions of popular culture, conventions to which Mr. Cooper hews with slavish or perhaps unthinking devotion, treat those things with a certain reverence. Review: In ‘Black Mass,’ Johnny Depp Is the Dead-Eyed Killer Whitey Bulger 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
His slavish devotion to his source material reared its head again in his adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ magisterial “Watchmen.” Ayn Rand’s warped superheroes: Of course Zack Snyder’s vision of “greatness” owes everything to “The Fountainhead” 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z
He was not naive: He knew institutions could be cold, and his commitment was not slavish Kevin Starr will never be replaced: William Deverell remembers the historian and author 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z
The coach believes soccer is more like jazz than classical music in that it requires improvisation off a theme rather than slavish devotion to a score. For Margueritte Aozasa, trust remains at the center of UCLA soccer's title defense 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z
They have also drawn attention for their at-times unpredictable driving patterns, including a slavish obedience to posted speed limits, circuitous routes and a tendency to stop completely when confronted with unexpected obstacles. San Francisco drives tech; will it drive away robot taxis? 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z
If Pravda had written such a piece, Vladimir Putin would have had the writers killed — for slavish obsequiousness. First walk, then run: New York Times whitewashes Biden presidency 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z
Opposition political parties, he said, had “taught us all by glorifying the history of the slavish Mughal period. Better late than ever. This is an effort to remove all those chapters.” Indian Textbooks Purged of Material Modi’s Party Finds Inconvenient 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z
But the Republicans’ slavish devotion to the interests of the gun lobby will continue to ensure that they are the deadly gift that keeps on giving. Platitudes will not save our children | Horsey cartoon 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z
The exception is their boss, Marino’s desperately entrepreneurial Ron Donald, whose slavish deference to his customers backfires as predictably as his efforts to rein in his employees. Review | ‘Party Down’: Still unprofessional, still a good time 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z
"These were not slavish unanimous verdicts of guilt," Mr Prentice said. Natalie McGarry: Ex SNP MP appeals embezzlement conviction 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z
He managed to win the Speakership through his slavish loyalty to Trump, including a willingness to vote to overturn the 2020 election. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to be a mainstream Republican now. Sadly, the media will let it happen 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z
The slavish fandom that people like Musk and Trump attract is generally confusing to folks on the left, because those two guys are such embarrassing losers. How Trump and Elon build their cults: Exploiting right-wing insecurity 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z
The fact is that anyone who cares about the future of our country should be appalled that the Republican Party has become a slavish cult of Mr. Trump dedicated to propagating falsehoods and undermining democracy. Opinion | No, Gary Abernathy, we will not get over it 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z
Throughout this slavish accumulation of her too-clever aphorisms, her sweeping historical generalities and her arch cultural observations, Neil remains wholly devoted to polishing his devotion. Review | Julian Barnes is back. But where’s the magic? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z
The right’s slavish defense of gun rights, even in the midst of mass shootings, led to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling overturning New York’s 100-year-old concealed-carry law. Op-Ed: Clarence Thomas earns our scorn 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z
The film, according to the New York Times, “plays like a slavish yet intermittently lucid Wikipedia entry.” New movies to stream this week: ‘Monstrous’ and more 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z
In contrast, Culp and Kent are part of the new breed of conservatives driven by ludicrous conspiracy fantasies, culture war fervor and slavish loyalty to Trump. Trump’s stamp of approval 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z
This man is a provably hateful, vindictive, lying, cheating, stealing insurrectionist who inspires slavish devotion from a white nationalist base and sycophancy from craven Republican leaders. Has the mainstream media already made its peace with fascism? We'll soon find out 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z
“To listen to our national broadcaster or much of the media elite is to hear about a uniquely racist, selfish, slavish and monochromatic country. The reality could not be more different,” Murdoch said. Lachlan Murdoch, once the ambivalent Fox heir, makes his views clear 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z
Prison sentences replaced slavish punishments like whipping, branding, and cropping of ears. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
What is their reward for such slavish service to a greedy charlatan, a sexual abuser, a spouter of spiritual inanities? Review | Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘The Books of Jacob’ is finally here. Now we know why the Nobel judges were so awestruck. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z
There is no simple legislative solution to our present predicament, and our best statutory protections are stymied by the slavish devotion of senators to an archaic Senate custom — the filibuster. Op-Ed: A year after the Capitol attack, democracy itself is on every ballot 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z
From his castle on the Harkonnens’ home planet of Giedi Prime, he commands an army that follows him with slavish devotion. How the 'Dune' team brought the villainous Harkonnen to life 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z
"But ultimately, this show is not attempting to be a slavish mirror to its on-screen twin." Frozen: Can the stage musical recreate the film's magic? 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z
Like other fascist and fake populist movements, Trumpism draws its power and a type of life force from the slavish loyalty of Trump's followers. Dr. John Gartner on America after Trump: "Dystopian science fiction ... is actually happening" 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z
They were also slavish in their devotion, sometimes replying to more than three-quarters of all the ambassador’s tweets. Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z
Needless to say, identifying up, however slavish it may be, is not at all what is meant by "slave morality," as described and stigmatized by Nietzsche. More lies we live by: How exactly did America come to love billionaires so much? 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z
“I didn’t care so much that it was slavish to the material,” Hannah says. Netflix begins streaming ‘Firefly Lane,’ adapted from Bainbridge Island author’s breakthrough novel 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z
Mr. Hawley offered no evidence to support why he plans to object to certifying the electoral college results, but then evidence does not seem to factor into Mr. Hawley’s slavish devotion to Mr. Trump. Opinion | Mr. Hawley’s ill-advised plan to contest the results 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z
The obsequious Mike Pence once told friends that he “loathed Trump”, and Lindsey Graham aptly defined him as “a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot”; then they and their cronies got down to some slavish bootlicking. Eight of the best books about Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z
As the Athenian statesman Solon says in one of the oldest observations on tyranny, "The people fall through ignorance under the slavish rule of one man." Is Donald Trump a tyrant? It depends — Euripides would say no, but Aristotle might say yes 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z
You want to be true to yourself, not a slavish follower of social expectations. The Inconvenient Truth about Your "Authentic" Self 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z
He expressed an almost slavish devotion to L Brands. Victoria’s Secret Sale Caps End of Wexner’s Retail Empire 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z
As is his insane bellowing before a crowd screaming its slavish obeisance. Can we stop tiptoeing around the fact that Trump is behaving like a dictator? 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z
Lawmakers not seeking re-election are often the most candid about the slavish devotion Mr. Trump engenders with voters — and the pressure it puts on them. Fear and Loyalty: How Donald Trump Took Over the Republican Party 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z
Unless you are a slavish toady, such personalities will eventually see you as an enemy. Psychologist John Gartner: "Deep inside, Donald Trump is a very empty and sad person" 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z
But don’t expect that to stop Mr. Trump or his most slavish followers. Opinion | Republicans shouldn’t blindly protect Trump during impeachment hearings 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z
As much as the comic-book company’s most slavish followers would like to believe otherwise, not everyone is a fan. In Scorsese and Coppola, Marvel meets formidable foes 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z
This lack of dexterity weighs down the movie, and again raises the question: “Why such a slavish remake in a medium that doesn’t allow the glory of the original to fully translate?” Disney’s live-action Lion King is pretty but so unnecessary 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z
The premeditated murder of a contributing columnist who believed in democracy does not concern him, but the care and feeding of the dictatorial kingdom that sent the killers gets his lavish attention and slavish devotion. Opinion | Saudi Arabia murdered a journalist. Trump doesn’t seem to mind. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z
And given Mr. Trump’s disdain for the norm and the premium he places on slavish devotion to him, it’s no surprise he didn’t fire Ms. Conway but instead rose to her defense. Opinion | Kellyanne Conway is well-versed in rules and ethics. She just doesn’t care. 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z
Obviously, they didn't expect such slavish devotion from a president's allies as we see in the current Congress. Could Don McGahn lead a Trump exodus? Republican lawyers may be ready to jump off sinking ship 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z
This case would test whether the purported strict constructionists making up the court’s majority believe more in the spending powers granted Congress under the Constitution or in slavish loyalty to a mercurial Republican president. Declaring a national emergency over the wall? This won't end well for Trump | Walter Shapiro 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z
Third, the results show that researchers need not choose between a slavish devotion to citation metrics and ignoring citation data altogether. Small research teams ‘disrupt’ science more radically than large ones 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z
Indeed, it doesn’t mean this story has a hero, still less that every story needs one — or that our slavish addiction to hero narratives is healthy in any way. Jeff Bezos and the Enquirer: Everything bad and stupid about America in one package! 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z
Three: How many more cliffs will Republicans blindly plunge off in slavish thrall to this huckster of a president? The shutdown was a catastrophe for the GOP, but a reawakening for labor 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z
Recent speeches by the hawkish former CIA director in Brussels and Cairo exhibited slavish subservience to his master’s voice, echoing Trump’s tunnel-vision nationalism and simplistic division of the world into friends and foes. Donald Trump and his ship of fools are courting calamity in Venezuela | Simon Tisdall 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z
“Mary Poppins Returns” works hard to evoke the undeniable charms of the original 1964 film: It replicates many of them, in slavish fashion. Review | ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ desperately wants to be liked, and the result is pretty much joyless 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z
Republicans, he said, hold a “slavish adherence” to a limited agenda and President Donald Trump. California governor predicts too much Democratic spending 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z
There is now a slavish devotion to "balance" and "fairness," even when that means failing the American people and betraying the fourth estate's sacred obligation to tell the truth. Trump’s USA Today op-ed: The real point was to threaten his enemies with violence 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z
Voters don’t reward authenticity; they reward slavish devotion to the tribe. Opinion | The revealing reaction to Heidi Heitkamp’s ‘no’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z
BIRMINGHAM, England—The annual conference of the U.K.’s ruling Conservative Party, usually a highly choreographed display of almost slavish loyalty of the party faithful to its leaders, is this year deeply split. U.K. Conservative Party Reveals Its Deep Divides 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z
McCain certainly died hoping for a different outcome than the current slavish devotion to Trump that many Republicans on Capitol Hill now profess, and that is what his funeral was meant to remind us. John McCain's Funeral Was the Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z
One of the wittier details in DeMonaco’s functional, largely generic script finds the slavish TV news anchors frustrated by the purge’s relatively sluggish start. ‘The First Purge’: Violent, erratic prequel shows how it all began 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z
But still, it is striking to read such a powerful shredding of one of Mr Trump’s attack lines from the spouse of one of his most slavish defenders. George Conway defends Robert Mueller’s investigation 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z
For others, this sort of forced patriotism and slavish “respect” smacks of dictatorships rather than democracies and the short shrift given to the real problems being protested smacks of racism. Donald Trump and the NFL 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z
The good news is that Iran’s most slavish and sectarian proxy, former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, is running a distant fourth, just barely in front of the largest Kurdish party. Opinion | A positive sign from the Middle East: Iraq’s democratic election 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z
Cline’s sullen teenage fantasy has a protagonist parlaying antisocial behavior into worldwide acclaim and the slavish devotion of a vaguely realized “cool girl.” What the Armada adaptation can learn from Ready Player One’s successes 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z
Republicans, who poured in millions of dollars in ads against Mr. Lamb, tried to paint him as a slavish follower of the California Democrat. Who Is Conor Lamb, Winner in a Special House Race in Pennsylvania? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
"Even though quite a few reviews said we were a slavish re-creation of the animation, it's absolutely not true," Greenwood notes. Two Oscar nominations in the same category? Meet the designers behind 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Darkest Hour' 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z
And yet Mrs. Trump may end up doing more than any of her predecessors to upend our expectations of the slavish devotion a first lady must display toward her husband. Opinion | The Quiet Radicalism of Melania Trump 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z
Most fearful of all, public officials in control of the House and Senate, based upon their slavish obeisance thus far, would probably let Trump get away with it. Opinion | 2017 was bad. It may have been Trump’s high point. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z
And Nielsen appeared to realize her slavish defense of Trump was doing her no good. Opinion | This way madness lies 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z
All the slavish devotion from all the people who work for him? Donald Trump: He’s no Throne Sniffer 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z
Germans...for decades they fought to rid themselves of the shame brought down on them by their slavish devotion to demagogues. ‘Trump, Trump, Trump!’ How a President’s Name Became a Racial Jeer 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z
But there is something else at work here: the slavish veneration now accorded the military. Opinion | Sarah Huckabee Sanders is wrong about John Kelly 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z
Yet many Americans somehow continue to react with shock, surprise or amazement, and claim to be baffled by Donald Trump’s slavish devotion to white supremacy. Stop being surprised: Donald Trump is a white supremacist 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z
It is this sort of slavish devotion from Gucci’s customer base that resulted in the brand’s reporting a 43.4 percent increase in sales in the first six months of the year. Europe’s Luxury Retailers May Be Returning to Form 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z
There is an additional explanation for the slavish devotion shown by Trump’s followers toward their Great Leader that is often overlooked by more traditional types of political analysis. Donald Trump is a total love god — at least to his supporters. How does the left fight that? 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z
Nonetheless, if you take the view from 30,000 feet, better this than a press acquiescing on bended knee, where it spent most of the Obama years in a slavish Pravda-like thrall. Opinion | American democracy: Not so decadent after all 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z
Certainly greed and a slavish devotion to a revanchist right-wing ideology are part of the answer. Why are Republicans so cruel to the poor? Paul Ryan’s profound hypocrisy stands for a deeper problem 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z
But he said that as a "very slavish backbencher" he would support the prime minister. Migrants have raised school standards in London, says Gove - BBC News 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z
The news media’s slavish devotion to its narrative of white working-class anxiety is irresponsible. Can we finally ditch the “white working class” myth? Obama-then-Trump voters weren’t the problem 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z
Yet its new year announcement of lifetime honorary membership for Kate and slavish – sorry, lavish – praise of her “talent and enthusiasm” has irritated a few camera buffs. Kate Middleton is rightly honoured for her photographs – they are full of love 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z
She expected slavish displays of devotion from top bureaucrats and party functionaries, watching coolly as they lay full-length at her feet and pressed their faces to the floor. Death of Tamil Nadu’s Leader Leaves Power Vacuum in Southern India 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z
“After receiving that confidential information L’Oréal ceased pursuing the acquisition of Olaplex, and instead willfully took and copied Olaplex’s technology without authorization to create three slavish ‘me too’ knockoffs,” according to the court filing. L’Oréal to Fight California Firm’s ‘Knockoff’ Lawsuit 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z
Spark’s partners insist that the firm is unafraid of pushing into new industries, without slavish regard for whether there is an existing, easily defined market for a start-up’s products. Venture Capital Firm Navigates Uncharted Course to Success 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z
His chances for a ranking federal post are considered tarnished by Bridgegate, despite his slavish devotion to Mr. Trump. Atlantic City, Symbol of Big Bets Gone Bad 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z
The wealthiest Americans' special interests are protected by a slavish GOP that controls the House of Representatives. How Republicans Lost Their Best Shot at the Hispanic Vote 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z
But Breitbart News is mainly known in this election for slavish devotion to the cult of Trump. Trump’s repellent inner circle 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z
Bekmambetov and Co. have created a redesigned product that is at once inferior to the original and a slavish imitation. ‘Ben-Hur’ review: The chariot race is spectacular, but the rest is pure schmaltz 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z
They thought of starting a restaurant, but the hours and work seemed too slavish. Ice cream shop swirls small-town charm with sweet nostalgia 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z
Their obsessed exploits have been affectionately chronicled in “Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made,” a documentary that’s just as fixated as the guys’ slavish adaptation. 'Raiders!' fondly chronicles fanboys' Indiana Jones quest 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z
And, worst of all, the professional pols’ slavish devotion to demographics and identity politics in every matter means they never stop peddling soft racism. CHARLES HURT: Trump’s crusade sets back struggle for a fair judiciary 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z
I argue that true fidelity to text requires, not a slavish dedication to clause-bound literalism, but an understanding of how each word in a complex text plays a role in a larger context. James Madison was an artist, and the Constitution should be read like poetry 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z
They’re realizing that many kids admitted into top schools are emotional wrecks or slavish adherents to soulless scripts that forbid the exploration of genuine passions. Rethinking College Admissions 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z
If anything, the incident incident exposed their slavish devotion to the Trump campaign. Corey Lewandowski may be off the hook. But he didn't win | Jeb Lund 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z
Here in Washington, there is nothing more despised and treated with freak-show contempt than a black professional who dares to buck the slavish liberal orthodoxy of the Democratic Party. CHARLES HURT: Clarence Thomas smeared in HBO’s ‘war on women’ movie 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z
Every song sought to capture that kind of teenage desperation from a different angle; Junk thoroughly rejects it in favor of winking, slavish recreation. M83's new album Junk is a befuddling mess 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z
“There is so much content out there and, for me, I don’t know that I have the time that I used to have to dedicate myself to slavish viewing of a seven-year show,” he said. Anthology TV Can Draw Higher-Level Actors, FX Executive Says 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z
They are taught an almost slavish reliance on technology. In America, the art of doctoring is dying 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z
But American voters are growing tired of his kind of slavish devotion to old, dirty energy sources that threaten our kids’ futures.” Marco Rubio’s Energy Policy Centers on Drilling and Reversing Obama Rules 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z
Instead, it is women who are given pleasure by slavish men. A history of nudity: Playboy's censorship is a throwback to the medieval era 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z
There didn’t seem to be a lot of middle ground with the game; it was either slavish devotion or outright hatred. My brief, intense love affair with Destiny 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z
Huler says his own journey has not been “a slavish retracing,” but he has been trying to do what Lawson did: “Open our eyes to what is out there.” Writer retraces steps of Englishman’s trip through Carolinas 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z
One of the biggest problems with Hollywood is its slavish devotion to repeatable success — or more specifically, the illusion of repeatable success. Pixels review: Adam Sandler must be stopped 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z
But in the case of Pacino-De Niro-Scorsese, do we have to collude with them in such slavish devotion to the work? I don't worship at the altar of Pacino and De Niro. I'm not sure why everyone does | Emma Brockes 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z
Was it an example of America’s unhealthily slavish devotion to football? Fire Didn’t Stop a Game, and 50 Years Later the Proof Still Fascinates 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z
Their slavish loyalty to their mother is both heartwarming and kind of scary; Ellaria is basically the fiercest Dance Mom in Dorne. The Game of Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 4 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z
And not surprisingly, there are those who find Mayweather's slavish devotion to Mammon  somewhat distasteful. Mayweather v Pacquiao - the lowdown 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z
The existence of a rule does not require slavish adherence to its prescriptions. The Federal Reserve Should Lay Out Clear Monetary Policy Rules 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z
It’s less an homage to the kind of grindhouse films celebrated by Quentin Tarantino than it is a slavish aping of Tarantino’s postmodern oeuvre itself. Tongue-in-cheek brutality of ‘Everly’ leaves a bitter aftertaste 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z
The presumption is that slight visual differences shouldn’t matter, that you’re just being slavish to detail if you’re obsessed with subtle pixel differentiation. The Surprising Reasons People Buy the PlayStation 4, Xbox One or Wii U 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z
Speaking of slavish devotion to a cause — you see!? The Game of Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 4 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z
So to suggest that American Sniper is a slavish, superficial biopic might not be giving its director enough credit. The True Heroism of 'American Sniper' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z
This slavish devotion to “the data” caused me to review the assumptions upon which he is basing his social mobility theory. Attention Ivory Tower Dwellers: The 2015 American Dream Is NOT An Illusion 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z
“It was slavish work before it was mechanized and you carried everything on your back,” said former miner Bill Turpin, who was sitting with his wife, Ruth, in the Ducktown Basin Museum on Thursday. Burra Burra Mine targeted for restoration work 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z
A slavish adherence to sloppy food can, of course, be a form of inverse snobbery. Chicken wings are a culinary triumph. So why do chefs want to ruin them? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z
The slavish attention to Apple’s product releases is unseemly. Apple Co-ops Media to Spin Unsustainable Narrative 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z
This week, as the sports world repays our slavish attention with more lousy, grotesque news, it’s worth noting that, on Sunday, the greatest American athlete in a generation won the U.S. Serena Williams Is America's Greatest Athlete 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z
It would exemplify the prime minister’s habit of postponing difficult politics; to a sceptical public, it might even seem slavish. David Cameron’s half-cocked war 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z
Instead, the investors need to realize that slavish pursuit of short-term gains tends to result in medium-term losses in value. From CEO 'Takers' To CEO 'Makers': The Great Transformation 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z
The thing about the ponytail is it has never really been in fashion in the normal world, and thus has only sporadically penetrated the realm of that most slavish group of trend-chasers, the footballer. The Joy of Six: Roger Federer to Phil Tufnell - ponytailed sportsmen 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z
But that slavish mixing of religion and politics also made them a target. Egypt’s Christians Place Their Faith in Al-Sisi’s Presidential Bid 2014-03-28T16:36:40Z
But this tech-savvy country is stuck in a time warp in one way: its slavish dependence on Internet Explorer. South Korea is stuck with Internet Explorer for online shopping because of security law 2013-11-05T12:00:00Z
In this case, it’s important to revaluate theses steps with other company leaders to ensure that you’re focused on the result and not being bogged down by a slavish adherence to “process.” Maintaining Company Culture As The Business Scales 2013-09-26T13:57:00Z
If collectivism carries the risks of the slavish embrace of ideology and the concentration of power, individualism carries the risks of selfishness and lack of foresight. Is Individuality the Savior of Eugenics? 2013-08-23T15:45:04.440Z
"There is no greater bastion of freedom than the transatlantic alliance, and within it the special relationship, always solid but never slavish." US-UK intelligence-sharing 'vital' 2013-06-26T04:14:42Z
Allianz, by far the biggest life player in its home market, will offer the new policies alongside traditional guarantee products and was not reacting to Solvency II in a "slavish" way, Wemmer said. Allianz says new life policies need less capital 2013-06-25T16:18:58Z
The Levine-led Irrational team has birthed a universe, now, of games about a dominant idealogue enforcing a slavish devotion to fearful systems, even after those systems have become irrelevant. Bioshock Infinite – ten features you should read and why they exist 2013-04-16T10:27:00Z
It's the journey, not the destination – and Kojima reveals little that isn't a deliberate clue, or a slavish troll of his dedicated audience. Metal Gear Solid 5 – the trailer decoded 2013-03-28T07:30:02Z
Propaganda celebrates with slavish devotion the glory of the Kim bloodline as well as the general purity of blood of the North Korean race. 5 Things We Hope Dennis Rodman Learned About North Korea 2013-03-01T01:50:24Z
Some say that the markets have become slavish captives to high-frequency trading — that we’ve lost our ability to keep pace and we are unable to effectively regulate. Regulators And Traders Fail To Keep Pace In High Frequency Markets 2013-02-08T14:29:41Z
A slavish commitment to low and stable inflation might not be the optimal response to a world with a commodity-price speed limit. Inflation: The global output gap 2012-09-19T17:00:29Z
That both Democrats and Republicans are trying to depict their rivals as slavish creatures of the opposite party suggests that North Dakotan sympathies really do lie somewhere in the middle. Lexington: As North Dakota goes… 2012-08-30T15:01:38Z
This slavish coverage of conservative scoundrels does nothing to illuminate policy or challenge our assumptions. Riff: Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One. 2012-06-08T22:10:00Z
From the second century A.D. well into the 1800s, “addiction” described a disposition toward any number of obsessive behaviors, like excessive reading and writing or slavish devotion to a hobby. Op-Ed Contributor: The D.S.M. Gets Addiction Right 2012-06-05T23:51:07Z
She remembered how she had scoffed in old days at the slavish flattery of them by her fellow-actors and actresses; equally in the old days she had scoffed at love. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z
A dapper MONKEY, pert and vain, Step’d forth, and thus address’d the train: Why cringe, my friends, with slavish awe, Before this pageant king of straw? Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z
This man is of a party whose principles we reckon slavish; and therefore his whole sentiments are corrupted. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z
The Sabbath eve was almost upon them, and the old slavish fear of the Law made them hasten. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z
It seems, therefore, that to do justice to the work itself is of far greater importance than a slavish adherence to the composer's conception. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z
You are the miserable cur who fawned upon me when I had killed the tyrant, and in your slavish adulation you proposed to make me ruler in his stead; and I spat upon you! The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z
He saw that spiritual superstition not only diverts men from Truth, but induces a slavish stupidity of mind, and prepares the way for every form of political and social injustice. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z
We should be solid but not slavish in our friendship with America.” Letter From Europe: War Weighs on Britain's Special Relationship 2012-03-12T12:00:38Z
Their patient endurance of these accumulated hardships did not arise from a slavish servility, or insensibility to their rights and comforts. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z
A free state and a slavish religion are incompatible. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z
So holds me Thoas, indeed a noble man, fast In solemn, sacred, but slavish bonds. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z
It behooves the judicious gardener, then, not to be too slavish in his attempts to imitate natural conditions, and to bear in mind that such attempts sometimes end in failure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z
Indeed, all their religious impressions, seem rather the result of a slavish dread, than the effect of rational piety. An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. 2012-03-01T03:00:24.137Z
I blush to think how I eked them out; by what subservience to Clare, by what a slavish anxiety to help Jack to muffins--each piece I hoped might choke him! Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z
He is no slavish copyist, however, of those authorities, nor of any others, however eminent. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z
The advocacy of continued union with the whites under the prevailing circumstances, however, was dubbed by the progressive Negroes a manifestation of the spirit of servility resulting from a slavish attachment to their former masters. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z
He contrasted, too, his lot with that of Turnpenny's mates on the mainland, dragging out a miserable existence of slavish toil. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z
But surely he would not carry his slavish complaisance so far as to sacrifice his only brother to the English dragon? My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z
He mumbled slavish platitudes anent the virtues of his gracious Majesty. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z
Was one copied from the other, and the copy so slavish that it was misspelled exactly the same? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z
Indeed his feelings upon this subject were entirely slavish; and it is said that his strong grief at the death of Charles the First hastened his death. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z
Item," he said, "that I be not a sexton; for sexton be a slavish name for a free-born mountaineer. For the Major A Novelette 2012-02-10T03:00:17.550Z
He played the part of the repentant sinner, throwing all the guilt on the stepmother, and blaming himself for the slavish spirit in which he had carried out her orders. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z
We hoped for space, at least, and solitude, but people who choose to pry into out-of-the-way corners of Spain need not expect to find any slavish deference to rights of place and property. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z
Strenuous liberty is often preferred to slavish ease. Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z
Enough, too much; no more a master's yoke Endure, nor bow to lordly Lucre's stroke: His service from thy slavish neck is broke. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z
It was a sight for sin and wrong And slavish tyranny to see, A sight to make our faith more pure and strong In high humanity. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z
While confidence in his own abilities freed him from a slavish adherence to facts which could serve no useful purpose. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z
I cannot here discuss the strange mixture which they present of slavish literalism with exalted speculation, of pedantic orthodoxy with physical and moral insight far beyond the level of that age. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z
Alas! and am I born for this, To wear this slavish chain? The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z
O you, who, far from liberty detain'd, Wear out existence in some slavish land, Fly thence from tyrants, and their flatt'ring throng, And bring the fiery freeborn soul along. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z
If we had, he would not want a slavish lawyer to abet the worst measures that can be devised to ruin and enslave this country. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z
The many pass with slavish speed; The few remember this or that; Some hear and jeer, some stop to heed— And some drop pennies in his hat.... The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z
Where a choice has had to be made, the alternative of a somewhat slavish adherence to Schopenhauer's ipsissima verba has accordingly been preferred to that of inaccuracy. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z
The female is consigned to the slavish duties of the house. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z
This is a noble maxim when compared with that abject and slavish one of the "new will of God," which enjoins the holding up of the cheek to receive a second blow. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z
We look with indignation and disgust at the priest-ridden countries where a slavish population submits to the lash of bigoted despots, and rejoice that our lot is cast under a freeer heaven. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z
In his 77th year he says: "I am working away as hard as ever at water color drawings and paintings in oil, doing as little Etching as possible as that is very slavish work." George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z
She raised him; he had been kneeling in slavish wonder and admiration at her feet. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z
Unfortunately, what follows is a slavish endorsement of technology as a line-item replacement for human interaction and for the development of associated constructs, such as personal responsibility and deep understanding. Letters: Technology No Cure-All (2 Letters) 2011-12-13T00:23:45Z
The slavish measuring by module and fraction of classic styles, the stark geometric analysis of Moorish ornament or the laborious copying of Chinese pattern is at best only art in cold storage. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z
Christ's freemen are free from the slavish fear of God. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z
Swiss Catholicism has not the slavish ignorance of Roman Catholicism. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z
They charge it is slavish in its approach to the Latin, resulting in labyrinthine sentences and hard-to-understand vocabulary. Corpus Christi Parish Carves Own Path As Catholics Prepare for New Mass Translation 2011-11-26T01:45:35Z
Adam digged, and he is a gentleman of older line than any of the bloated and slavish aristocracies of Europe. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) 2011-11-21T03:00:13.443Z
Evosa was pardoned also for the bluntness of his refusal; it was a part of his slavish ignorance. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z
They do not regard God with slavish fear, as an austere Being, only ready to punish them. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z
He was a stanch advocate of "temperance in all things," denounced slavish habits and also slavery long before the latter became the subject of political agitation. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z
He can be pious, never hypocritical; his lofty soul rises to the Unspeakable; he falls on his knees with humility, but not with slavish fear, for he feels the divinity within. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z
In the monasteries of Syria and Mesopotamia the Translations from the Greek. writings of Aristotle, Galen, Ptolemy, and other ancient masters were rendered with slavish fidelity, and these Syriac versions were afterwards retranslated into Arabic. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z
The snow was now fast disappearing from the Territory, but the mud and slush caused by the thawing snow, made travelling a slavish task. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z
The sons of God are delivered from that slavish fear of God which sin begets in the natural heart. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z
He has no slavish and indiscriminate admiration for the old masters, and his enthusiasm and his hopes are with the art of his time.... The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z
Nevertheless, not to slavish servitude does he reduce them; on the contrary, he raises them in their own estimation by that which he exacts from them. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z
The Indians who had been divided with the lands among the conquerors by the slavish system of repartimientos, were declared to be the king's subjects. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z
It was now getting along toward the first of March and the soft soil made the wheeling of all vehicles a slavish task for man and beast. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z
They feel no more slavish fear towards Him: they feel towards Him as a reconciled parent. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z
You can, by God's grace, give up all your sins and all your sinful and slavish habits. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z
To-morrow I shall be able to smoke with a clear conscience—with the feeling that it is an act of my own free choice, and not an act of slavish obedience to an old habit.... Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z
Even if it were true that every great library in Europe does a foolish thing, why should we, with the true spirit of slavish imitation, be equally foolish? Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts 2011-10-27T02:00:27.377Z
She would probably have regarded it as a slavish and far from upright procedure. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z
Galileo could not endure such slavish submission to authority. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z
He may be in bondage to a metropolitan mannerism which is quite as slavish as any provincial prejudice, and full as far short of a wise humanity as of a genuine faith. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z
Vile despots, with their minions knavish, Would drag us back to their embrace; Will freemen brook a chain so slavish? Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z
There was thus no slavish following of fashion, and consequently every one looked, or fancied they looked, their very, very best, and were thoroughly at ease in their quaint and, mostly, fascinating attire. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z
This wretched slavish soul even while embracing me was devising treachery! 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z
We learn that even after he had attained proficiency he never dispensed with the model; nevertheless, he was neither a slavish imitator of nature, nor altogether a painter of style. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z
They retire, with the same slavish ceremonials, from the royal presence. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z
By such treatment as this the very Grecians are grown slavish, ignorant, and superstitious. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z
No peace leading to slavish stupidity; no peace prompting to preposterous prudence, in palliating sin, or daubing defections with untempered morter; no peace inconsistent with truth; they must go together, Zech. i. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z
But however Levi came by so strange and hateful an office, Jesus saw in him no slavish earner of vile bread by doing the foreigner's hateful work. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z
I don't think I'm exaggerating when I maintain that the Swedish nation is a stupid, conceited, slavish, envious, and uncouth nation. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z
Your temperament, with its thirst for freedom, could not be satisfied by my monotonous life, the slavish routine to which I was condemned, the narrow circle in which I had to move. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z
Yet he worked from no mere sense of stern duty, in the slavish performance of a binding vow: love prompted his service, out of a willing heart. The Captured Scout of the Army of the James A Sketch of the Life of Sergeant Henry H. Manning, of the Twenty-fourth Mass. Regiment 2011-08-05T02:00:43.977Z
Raphael used his severest satire in criticising this "slavish humility," but his father differed from him. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z
The row began in April when Apple sued Samsung in a US court alleging that tablets and phones made by the Korean company were "slavish" copies of the iPad and iPhone. Patent row hits Galaxy Tab launch 2011-08-02T10:28:59Z
Nor could he help but realize the other's almost slavish deference, as, in response to the older man's order, he hastily moved off shorewards. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z
Ignorance never appeared to me so frightful, so slavish, so blind, as on this occasion. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z
I have said that knowledge buffets, forcing us into an almost slavish attitude, and that this is resented by vigorous natures. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z
"Frau Staatsr�thin," cried Ernestine, "I shall always be grateful to your son for his kindness to me, but surely I ought not to testify my gratitude by hypocrisy and slavish servility." Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z
"I drink no slavish token of homage by constraint," he exclaimed, in a rage. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z
This slavish position which the principles of common law assigns the married woman, is a relic of barbarism, which the progress of civilization will, doubtless, ere long, annihilate. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z
He is merely a hack playwright, bribed by the hope of immediate gain into slavish obedience to the most unthinking part of the public. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z
Rightly does the Psalmist call the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom rather than its end; for that education is defective which fashions a docile and slavish learner. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z
I cannot but hate, to-day, the slavish fashion which seems to have been invented in order to intensify that self-consciousness which is the worst enemy of beauty. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z
Lies not his kingdom in thought, and must thought, too, be subject to slavish limitations? The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z
And this, gentlemen, is legal usurpation, also, on the slavish principle of common law—the legal nonentity of the wife, the man and wife being one, and the one, the man! Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z
How feelingly did I describe the condition of that poor man who has to cringe beneath her rod, and earn his slavish day's wages by the sweat of his brow! Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z
The Centre has become corrupt and time-serving, the Socialists expedient and slavish, all because the Imperial Head, the Chancellor, could scatter the spoils! Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z
One learns to estimate military courage very moderately, when one sees that the Roman Legions, precisely when they were mercenary, bad, slavish, and half freedmen, namely, under the Triumvirate, fought more courageously than ever. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z
In the arts a high state of perfection had been reached, and the Aztec craftsman appears to have been a step beyond the slavish conventionalism of the ancient Egyptian artist. The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru 2011-06-13T02:00:26.863Z
She shook of the slavish terror which threatened to overcome her altogether, and set herself to her next course of action. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z
To those who woo her with too slavish knees, Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z
If man's soul is not subject to material conditions, why do I find knavish souls?—Why slavish souls?—tyrannous souls? A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z
But without this master-key the copying is slavish, and the bondage of the task is both cruel and destructive. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z
Once in the valley, she mounted Betty, and letting Mowitza follow, he walked ahead himself, to break the trail—a slow, slavish task, and the journey seemed endless. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z
Ah, when this slavish love of gold Once binds the soul in greasy fetters, How prostrate lies—how droops and dies The great, the noble cause of letters! Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z
There is a foolish subservience, an ostentatious and superficial chivalry, an undignified and slavish deference to whims which silly women demand and sillier men grant. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z
They looked up at Toppy with slavish admiration, as lesser men look up to the champion who has triumphed before their eyes. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z
They knew that it would mean torture and death for themselves, and captivity and slavish drudgery for their women and children. White Otter 2011-05-07T02:00:32.243Z
"Rashell Hardy?" was all he deigned to address to that personage, so inborn in the Indian is the scorn of a slave or those of slavish origin. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z
The great Anglo-Saxon mind that you speak of is, after all, but slavish and half developed—the outgrowth of that very tyranny of opinion it fled to avoid. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z
In art, mere realism is another word for slavish imitation. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z
At the same time, Gill isn't a slavish devotee to tradition. The King of the Barbershop Resurgence 2011-04-11T04:00:00Z
The problem is that the body is the final, crucial buffer between the skittish human mind and the slavish machine servant. Charlie Brooker: Your brain may control your computer, but who's your controlling your brain? 2011-04-10T23:05:03Z
In such wise was his progress through the streets of Dublin, now moving slowly onward, now turning to confront the mob that in slavish adulation still tracked his steps. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z
Of this tranquility there are, according to Epicurus, as expounded by Lucretius, two chief enemies, superstition, or slavish fear of the gods, and the dread of death443. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z
You are one of the very few young fellows I ever met who was not infected with a slavish worship of the titled classes. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z
With the erosion of the postwar compact that traded a slavish devotion to work for stable wages and benefits, many young people felt alienated and adrift. Japan?s Young Face Ills of Sour Economy and Disasters 2011-03-31T21:42:28Z
"Councils appear to dismiss every submission," says Mr Whitehorn, "on the slavish principle that unless their engineer finds a fault, then we must be at fault." Fighting the little yellow ticket 2011-03-28T10:11:22Z
Yet they have one redeeming quality, an intense love of personal freedom, strangely contrasting with the almost abject slavish spirit of the Siamese. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z
There is a difference between a prudent conservatism and a timid and slavish repetition of time-honored views. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z
Not so strange that this proud, pampered woman, from her cradle accustomed to such slavish obedience, should verily believe it but her due. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z
Without any long, slavish copying of the former seal, he set a second upon the letter, and went away enlightened by it. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z
Our laborious Manner of Life, compared with theirs, they esteem slavish and base; and the Learning, on which we value ourselves, they regard as frivolous and useless. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z
For, although life is dear, Yet, freemen born and freemen bred, We’d rather live as freemen dead, Than live in slavish fear. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z
Moreover, you're the wife whom he worships with a slavish idolatry. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z
She exacts from men a species of deference little less than a slavish submission. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z
Hitherto these people had been slavish admirers of Hayston, and he assured me that he would reassert his former influence over them in ten minutes. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z
None of those slavish caresses, but go, go! Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z
The weakness of Richard Spencer's nature was a slavish adoration of the nobility. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z
Also despite his sense of personal loss in Chaucer’s death and his care to transmit to posterity the likeness of his beloved master, he seems to have been less slavish than Lydgate in imitating him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z
They knew a higher law than the slavish repetition of accurate distances or intervals; they had learned to calculate effects, to allow for optical illusions; they knew how to sacrifice real for ideal symmetry. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z
But grace can conquer slavish fear,— With joy I look thereon! Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect 2011-02-16T03:00:41.223Z
But in spite of slavish adherence to technique it was taken for granted that ecstasy was the main object of poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z
And yet this slavish subjection and obedience to another's will; it was incomprehensible. Partners A Novel. 2011-02-02T03:00:20.690Z
As for me, though truly mine is no slavish nature, I gave myself up to you body and soul. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z
And because she was so quiet and unobtrusive, her intense watchfulness, and slavish imitation of what she saw, passed unnoticed. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z
You know only the slavish submission of the servants in your country and the Orient. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z
I never saw a more hopeless instance of slavish adherence to the drill books and utter want of common sense and adaptability to the conditions of service in this country. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z
Thus, with Christian writers, slavish imitation of the past gradually gave way to the evolution of a new and living Latin, which showed itself more and more regardless of classical models. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z
It is slavish adherence to old rules and intolerance for any perceived transgression. NYC: Subjects And Verbs As Evil Plot 2011-01-14T03:20:01Z
A man who has had such a night as his is slavish for days before the fear of being without. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z
These men, however, were not of a slavish kind. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z
No cause for doubts or darkness here, For troubled mind or slavish fear. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z
Never does he offend against the form of slavish servility; and, with his salaam, he acts as though he were the inferior, but he is silently aware that he is the superior. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z
Its slavish adherence to the original caused the new translation to be received with favour by the Hellenistic Jews, among whom it quickly superseded the older Septuagint. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z
I do not believe that slavish acceptance of the RUC’s recommendations is a good thing, if only because the physicians on the RUC do labor under at least the appearance of a conflict of interest. Economix: Decision-Makers for Medicare Physicians Fees 2010-12-10T11:00:00Z
That's imperfect, too, but a better fit for an industry like education than today's slavish devotion to credentials. Who Is Best Qualified to Run a School System? 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z
That closeness, however, saw Blair routinely attacked as the President's lap dog, with Cameron, for one, describing Blair's relationship with Bush as "slavish." Britain to Obama: Stop Bullying Us Over BP 2010-06-11T17:15:00Z
But party officials repeatedly stressed during the election that they would pursue good but not "slavish" relations. UK's Hague lavish, not "slavish," on first U.S. trip 2010-05-14T20:31:00Z
The Conservatives, the senior partner in the coalition, are traditionally pro-American but said repeatedly during the election campaign that their relationship with the United States would be "solid but not slavish." UK's new foreign minister to visit Washington 2010-05-12T19:17:00Z
As long as Britain is fighting alongside the US in Afghanistan, neither side can afford to be dismissive but Mr Hague also says that the UK will be "solid but not slavish". New approach 2010-05-12T14:46:00Z
Mr. Cameron extols the virtues of close contact with Washington, but he and other Tory officials emphasize a "solid but not slavish" friendship that needs to be rebalanced from one tilted in America's favor. U.K. Coalition Sets Up Foreign-Policy Clash 2010-05-12T03:43:00Z
They were what, in Nelson's navy, stood between Britain and Bonaparte who no-one but the most slavish admirers thought was a friend of freedom. The tree that shaped Britain 2010-05-07T15:21:00Z
And the Conservative Party's pledge during British elections to avoid "slavish" relations with Washington again raised questions about the partnership. UK's Hague lavish, not "slavish," on first U.S. trip 2010-05-14T20:31:00Z
But then, very quickly, you remember that brilliant driving games don't have to adhere to slavish realism. Blur: hands-on with Activision's rocket-powered racer 2010-05-06T08:00:00Z
But does that require slavish loyalty to the bankers? NYC: New York?s Leaders Protect the Street They Live On 2010-04-23T01:20:00Z
It petrified literature by the slavish imitation of unapproachable models. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
In spite of its author’s modest estimate, Arethas’s work is by no means a slavish compilation; it contains additions from other sources, and especial care has been taken in verifying the references. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip"
Hague repeated the comment on Friday, saying Britain supported Obama's foreign policy on Mideast peace, Afghanistan and nuclear non-proliferation, but "not in any slavish way." UK's Hague lavish, not "slavish," on first U.S. trip 2010-05-14T20:31:00Z
He sells ten hours of himself every day in exchange for just enough to keep himself in that same slavish condition. Labor and Freedom
This does not mean a slavish copying of the old in restoration; to simply imitate old elements would be neither interesting nor commendable, except for the purposes of a museum. Remodeled Farmhouses
The few free-minded resist this will, when it is in opposition to their own, and the slavish many submit. How to Observe Morals and Manners
Learning playwriting from models recalls the method of Benjamin Franklin and Robert Louis Stevenson who in their youth wrote slavish imitations of the great masters in order to form their own prose style. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors
Tameness and monotony naturally result from a slavish adherence to all arbitrary rules and every branch of literature felt this blighting influence. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl
"It seemed a slavish hard thing to write," he confessed heavily. The Tempering
That word, uttered by a woman to a mere individual human creature who happened to be her husband, seems helplessly pathetic and slavish enough. The Sources Of Religious Insight
About her pressed and crowded the representatives of all races and nations of that multitude which material progress has raised from slavish degradation. The Progressionists, and Angela.
This system, when stripped of those slavish inferences that Brady and Carte attempted to build upon it, admits perhaps of no essential objection but its want of historical truth. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3
The low and slavish idea of man's character and destiny inevitably infects our views of God and of God's action and purpose in the world. Misread Passage of Scriptures
He refused to recognize Victor, the anti-Pope, whose slavish nature he despised, and whom he openly treated with contempt as occupying a position to which he was not legally entitled. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century.
There is a terrible sameness in the gambler's look, a blending of slavish terror with a resolution to brave the worst, almost demoniacal in its fierceness. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II)
The ancient slavery had disappeared; gone were also the beggared freemen who had despised work as slavish. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The devotion to the Tzar evinced by the common people is not slavish, or the result of fear; it is more of childlike veneration. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia
Chatsky declaims to Famusov his contempt for modern Moscow, for the slavish worship by society of all that is foreign, for its idolatry of fashion and official rank, its hollowness and its convention. An Outline of Russian Literature
This method of slavish imitation doubtless has its usefulness for some people. Confessions of an Opera Singer
Miggles had the slavish devotion to locking up which characterised her time, and it was seldom indeed that any of her possessions could be reached without the aid of at least two keys. A Question of Marriage
So that it is no slavish toil that I am here recommending. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend
In the early communist period there was slavish imitation of the Soviet doctrine known as Socialist Realism, which required that all expression reflect the struggle for social justice and the positive aspects of communist achievements. Area Handbook for Romania
The pseudo-classical, with all its mythological machinery and conventional apparatus, was totally alien to Russia, and a direct and slavish imitation of the French. An Outline of Russian Literature
One must have gone through the ordeal of such a representation to understand its vexations, to know all the impertinences it can evoke from some, all the slavish attentions from others. That Boy Of Norcott's
It was the constrained uniformity of worship, the compulsory unity of belief, the slavish submission to authority, in the dearest concerns of existence, which was the real evil that was complained of. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845
The slave has of necessity a slavish soul. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists
Gerald obeyed without a word; and now a slavish sense of fear came over him, and he felt that this man swayed and controlled him as he pleased. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier
High titles greet thee on this slavish earth, Yet, none so vile but they would fit thee best. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem
Did not the prone and slavish attitude of these women appear to Margaret as fatal to character as it really is? Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)
In the way of change stand the remnants of woman's slavish habit. The Intelligence of Woman
Think of the anticipations of the great Gustavus Adolphus, to whom Germany did slavish homage in the altitude of his fortunes, and recollect his sad fate.' Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna
Alf, notwithstanding, in his new situation, strove to shield, defend, and rescue the sufferers; yet new victims fell daily, and the slavish population daily trembled more and more before their cowardly and tyrannical tailor-king. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist
Young ladies of even the great families were brought up very strictly by their mothers, who kept them constantly at work and exacted from them an almost slavish respect. Women of England
It is slavish obsequiousness and nothing else which bends its knee before the Padishah; it is fear, not love, which obeys him. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries
"He that walks behind," said Michael Angelo "can never go before;" and originality was impossible when Pope's only notion of legitimate pastoral was a slavish mimicry of classical remains. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition
He was made to busy himself in the most laborious and slavish occupations. Elsie in the South
"Nothing is in reality less democratic than the people," said he, occasionally, and he did not allow himself the least delusion as regards their slavish love for authority. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory
The streets were deserted; the houses closed; the city was in mourning; and none stooped to the slavish adulation which might win favor with the conqueror. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II
Is that part of the mind which works out scientific truths a mere slavish machine, producing results it knows not how, having no part in the good which in its workings it brings forth? The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse
You are like all the rest, a narrow, petty slavish follower after fashion and convention. The "Genius"
I was in Csetátye Máré, that overwhelming relic of the Roman power, a gigantic gold-producing hill entirely hollowed out by the slavish hands of a subjugated race. Eyes Like the Sea
He quarrelled with anyone who would let him, and then for the irritation he had displayed he would make amends that were wholly slavish. Mary Magdalen
He 283 feared tenfold more, with a slavish, superstitious terror, some scission in the continuity of man’s experience, some wilful illegality of nature. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25)
Ever accustomed to prompt and slavish obedience from others, the idea of his own wife—his favorite too—denying his modest request, almost drove him frantic. The Boy Slaves
If he were not, would the grey-haired old servant have assumed such a slavish attitude? Weird Tales. Vol. I
I am sick of slavish poverty on the one hand, and callous pride on the other. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850
There are women who live to dress no matter what the cost may be but they are not to be envied for this slavish passion. The Colored Girl Beautiful
Yea, from all his slavish bonds Atta Troll has torn him free. Atta Troll
But in order to oppress a class certain conditions must be assured to it under which it can, at least, continue its slavish existence. Manifesto of the Communist Party
There is no one to say to me ‘Go’ or ‘Come’; no patient to visit; no confounded case on the docket next morning at nine; no distasteful, mean, slavish job of any kind. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8
It is rather a slavish fear, a feeling of dread and terror. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education
And I—who had no merit but a love, slavish and unerect—lay close, and durst not move for fear of waking.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25)
And, on the other hand, divine indefeasible hereditary right, when coupled with the doctrine of unlimited passive obedience, is surely of all constitutions the most thoroughly slavish and dreadful. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First
It was only by throwing off the yoke of that slavish religion that we attained to the freedom of thought which has advanced us in the scale of society. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3)
I copied them with slavish lack of thought, intent only on my shorthand, and most generally upon the physical difficulty of keeping my eyes open. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography
To receive as true anything which the child cannot fathom, and which he has not discovered or demonstrated for himself, is denounced as slavish. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education
French law knows the human being only as man; and so was it also until recently in England, where woman found herself in slavish dependence upon man. Woman under socialism
Such a slavish spirit, such a captive, fearful and uncertain spirit, ye do not have, says the apostle. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent
As a matter of policy, and to escape personal violence, or the destruction of one's property, it were well not to urge   them—ignorant, savage, and slavish, as they are—into rebellion. Records of Later Life
Ten years' use of my brain; ten years wasted in slavish pot-boiling for them; and then--then, this!' The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography
I have done with slavish fear of disaster. Shirley
Besides, if our reason is not accustomed to slavish submission to authority, this discovering relations, linking one idea to another, and inventing apparatus, renders us much more ingenious. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts
Fletcher is, as Coleridge says, a thoroughgoing Tory; his sentiments in 'Valentinian' are, to follow the same guidance, so 'very slavish and reptile' that it is a trial of charity to read them. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)
I am not well; this slavish sunshine dries up my vitality. Records of Later Life
And so his conduct had been consistently slavish, specious, and his thought stamped with the brand of the counterfeit. Carmen Ariza
All slavish terrors of embarrassment have left me. Shirley
Susie's admiration for duchesses was slavish, and Hilton was treated with an indulgent liberality that was absurd compared to the stinginess displayed towards everyone else. The Benefactress
The two were alternative forms of the most slavish and cruel capital punishment, impalement being mainly Persian, crucifixion Roman. Five Stages of Greek Religion
The young mind is rendered slavish, and as it grows up it goes through life cringeing to the instruments of its own abasement. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)
Archdeacon Farrar protests against the notion of a fiery, everlasting hell as the result of fear, superstition, ignorance, hate, and slavish letter-worship. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)
And first, had they wisdom enough to make a true judgment of things, they would find their own condition to be more despicable and slavish than that of the most menial subjects. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts
The butterfly the ancient Grecians made The soul's fair emblem, and its only name: But of the soul escaped the slavish trade Of earthly life! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865
The old woman on the ground alone made audible reply, and her slavish whining enraged Dolores. The Pirate Woman
Their spirit has been crushed until they are actually slavish in soul as well as in body. Slaves of Mercury
These tokens of submission Ca�eri received with the haughtiness of manner peculiar to a despot, accustomed to command respect and adoration from his herd of slavish dependants. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance.
But by imitation in art, Leonardo intended no slavish reproduction of nature. Thoughts on Art and Life
Discard soft nonsense in a slavish tongue, The strain insipid, and the thought unknown; From truth and nature form the unerring test; 35 Be what is manly, chaste, and good the best! The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir
She merely wanted to avoid a slavish acquiescence in Wyndham's view, to guard a characteristic intellectual attitude. Audrey Craven
We see the abject condition of the Papists, and we know their slavish superstitions. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
Was it true that certain 388 slavish natures in women––whether of Caucasian or African blood––loved best the men who were tyrants? The Bondwoman
Who died, and never had to bear the sifting lot's award, Whose slavish body never touched the bed of victor lord! The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse
Most of the bishops, accustomed to slavish subjection to their patriarchs, followed their example, and Mennas had to urge the bishops under him by every means to comply. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I
The discontinuance of his slavish admiration for her and of his blind belief in her genius was in her eyes an unpardonable sin. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real
Their attitude in this respect is doubtless due to a slavish following of their master. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
But the most slavish observance on the guest's part, and some improvement in her brother's conduct—which she might have rightly attributed to Asgill's presence—had not melted her. The Wild Geese
Give them a life that is totally free from the petty trammels and slavish conventionalities of the old world! Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand
And almost instinctively she resented her husband's slavish service to the Church, his dark, subject hankering to worship an unseen God. The Rainbow
Its enemies have beheld our prosperity with a vexation they could not conceal—it was a standing refutation of their slavish doctrines, and they will point to our discord with the triumph of malignant joy. Key-Notes of American Liberty Comprising the most important speeches, proclamations, and acts of Congress, from the foundation of the government to the present time
He yielded no slavish subservience to any Church or priest, however good, but tested all doctrines by the unerring standard of God's truth. General Gordon A Christian Hero
I do not think any boy realized the tragedy of those hopeless, wasted, slavish lives. A Boy's Town
Delay not—plunge thy blade “Or in my throat, or bosom;”—and her throat And bosom, as she spoke she bar'd—“for ne'er “Polyxena, a slavish life had borne. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II
On the Continent, however, no such system of slavish imitation prevailed. Pioneers of Science
The government-fed Indian and the Roman father of today do very little fighting, working, or hunting, but in their several ways they still claim much of the same slavish obedience as in old times. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
They all refused him with contempt, and ignominiously treated his ambassadors, letting him see, that they no longer dreaded that empire, which had formerly kept the greatest part of them in a slavish subjection. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)
But He set them free from the slavish fear of the heathen; they could look at all these terror-striking signs without fear; they could look with calmness, with confidence, because they looked in faith. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
Let it not hurt my claim, “That Juno hates me not; that all the toil “Of slavish orders I have ne'er perform'd. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II
Was not that their domestic creed?—a little slavish, perhaps, but still so exquisitely feminine. Not Like Other Girls
In truth, the nobles and aristocracy are the immediate oppressors of the ignorant masses, who are taught to regard them as demigods, and bow down before them in slavish abasement. The Land of Thor
However browbeaten, however slavish, they had been in their former lives this spark seemed always alive. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America
Not the slavish fear, but a fear in love, like as one would fear God whom he loved with all his heart. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
But he was a man who rather desired the love of his fellowmen than their slavish fear, and in all things he guided them so, that they could well govern themselves. Three Young Pioneers A Story of the Early Settlement of Our Country
A better righteousness than that of the scribes and the Pharisees—not a slavish adherence to the Law, with its supposed profits and rewards. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit
While equals are jealous of each other, inferiors are slavish and superiors tyrannical. The Land of Thor
His subdued and slavish manner toward his great neighbors, shows that they treat him with suspicion and harshness. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
So I told him those secret signals that he might see my slavish devotion, and might be satisfied that I was not deceiving him, but was telling him all I could.” The Brothers Karamazov
All that is slavish tends to keep up sectional prejudice and isolation. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
Their whole worship was one of slavish fear; and, so far as ever I could learn, they had no idea of a God of mercy or grace. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals
The whole theory is a slavish one, compared even with the civil law. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
There is a broad and well marked line, beyond which no slavish vice should be regarded with the least toleration or allowance. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
The "Counterblaste" commences by denouncing tobacco, because "the vile and stinking custome comes from the wilde, godlesse, and slavish Indians," by whom it was used as an antidote against the most dreadful of all diseases. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
Each man would thus be inspired with a consciousness of his own importance, and the slavish feelings that shrink up the soul in the presence of an imagined superior would be unknown. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
It's a slavish system, notwithstanding Gerald," said Miss Leonora, with some heat; "and a false system, and leads to Antichrist at the end and nothing less. The Perpetual Curate
There is no foundation in reason or expediency for the absolute and slavish subjection of the wife to the husband, which forms the foundation of the present legal relations. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
Some Jews there are with slavish mind Who fear, are mute, and meek. Jewish Literature and Other Essays
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Our national life has been a daily succession of victories since we fought for and won real peace and overcame the slavish notion that mere indolent quiescence could ever give security. The Message
Our slavish dependence on Peruvian bark has been due to our ignorance. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12
But, at any rate, it was not a slavish imitation; it was a faint prelude to real Dutch art. Holland, v. 1 (of 2)
Averse to manual labour, he could not properly cultivate such a small farm without submitting himself to this "slavish work," as he called it. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story
Meanwhile our foes, who all conspir'd To triumph in our slavish wrongs, Music and mirth of us requir'd, "Come, sing us one of Zion's songs." A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.
But one, at least, of Signorelli's disciples was neither slavish nor feeble. Luca Signorelli
"Stoical morality, strictly speaking, is, at bottom, only a slavish morality, excellent in Epictetus; admirable still, but useless to the world, in Marcus Aurelius." Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
She watched the almost slavish devotion of Wanaha with interest and sympathy, but her feelings were all for the tall, beautiful woman. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies
All the slavish adoration she received had not robbed her of that. The Sign of the Spider
The poor no more shall be In slavish misery; The idle rich shall flee. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
The women are too weak, and if I might say so, too slavish— Deschaume. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
My parents died ere I could know their caresses, and I, a gentle lamb among wolves, fell into slavish dependence upon men of various tribes and tongues. Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
When, even with eyes like poor Gloucester's in the play, we can see "how this world wags," it is slavish and "plebeian" to swear that it all "means intensely, and means well." Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
Luck had no slavish respect for law, had indeed, if rumor were true, run a wild and stormy course in his youth. Crooked Trails and Straight
There is greater security for tyranny in slavish thoughts, indifference and pettiness than in cannons and swords. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
You don't trouble about my being what you call slavish when it's you that profits by it! Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
These are some of the remnants in the decline of old India after thousands of years of Brahman rule and slavish domination of the people to preserve their own exclusive caste and exploitation. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology
She could not bear to let Davidson out of her sight; it was only when he was with her that she had courage, and she hung upon him with a slavish dependence. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
The first volume of the Fourth Part, the seventh of the twenty, follows—though with that absence of slavish repetition which has been allowed as one of the graces of the book—the general scheme. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
It makes the slave more slavish and the brute more brutal. An Anarchist Woman
Alexander the Great, reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth and luxury, told them that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate, and a most royal thing to labor.—Barrow. Pearls of Thought
Brahmanism first set the example as originators of this slavish abomination. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology
But Harboro was not squeamish, nor did he entertain slavish thoughts of how people would feel over a disregarded custom. Children of the Desert
If it hadn't been for this same numbing slavish patience we wouldn't be standing before the world to-day, political outcasts—catalogued with felons and lunatics——' 'And peers!' called a voice. The Convert
I remained there nearly a year and was considered by my mistress a model of willingness, patience, endurance, gentleness, and all the other slavish virtues. An Anarchist Woman
Quaint they indeed are from a European standpoint, but on more intimate knowledge this quaintness resolves itself into a slavish adaptability to the smallest circumstances in their daily struggle for existence. Life and sport in China Second Edition
Wherever polygamy is the custom the female is held in slavish subjection. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
Our lands shall be the property of others, and we still tied down by slavish chains to cultivate and improve them. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
People were guilty even of a slavish admiration of those who had the nerve to administer this wholly disproportionate reproof to the merely maladroit. The Convert
Pankraz is brought into disaster by his slavish following of suggestions aroused through fancied parallels between his own circumstances and those related of Yorick. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century
A mere slavish imitation of the Venetian school resulted, and it was not until the age of the Grande Monarque, Louis XIV., that French lace rivalled that of Venice. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
From what we have heard, let us learn not to think of the Loss of our Children with a slavish Dread. Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children Recommended and inforced, in a sermon preached at Northampton, on the death of a very amiable and hopeful child, about five years old
There is a heavenly dignity in such a course, infinitely superior to the slavish conformity so much contended for. Thoughts on Missions
Ruled paper for slavish persons, plain sheets for bold Bolshevists. Chimney-Pot Papers
Finally, Wieland cannot be classed among the slavish 97 imitators of Yorick; he is too independent a thinker, too insistent a pedagogue to allow himself to be led more than outwardly by the foreign model. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century
And yet there were those slavish enough to justify France, by criminating the American government. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.
There was a perfect understanding between him and his charges; nothing pedantic on his part, nothing slavish on their parts. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870
He takes no pleasure in a slavish obedience. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan
The shame was that of slavish submission to the Tartar khan. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
So very slavish—so reptile—are the feelings and sentiments represented as duties. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
Any religious or social institution is bad which leads to habits of pious make-believe, insincerity, slavish regard for authority and disregard for evidence, instead of habits of sincerity, open-mindedness and independence....” Manhood of Humanity.
He wrote in an agreeable literary style, with Macaulay undoubtedly as his model, although he was by no means a slavish imitator. Historical Essays
All by a hard and slavish death, strangled by the base noose of a foreign hangman. The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2
Here dwelt the grand prince as an irresponsible autocrat, making his will the law, and forcing all the provinces, even haughty Novgorod, to pay a tax which bore the slavish title of tribute. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
Even in Assyria the slavish imitation of Babylonian models caused brick to remain the chief building material of a kingdom where stone was plentiful and clay comparatively scarce. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs
There was no safety but for harmless stupidity or slavish conformity. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Christian humility is a slavish virtue; so is Christian charity. Science and Morals and Other Essays
An hour afterward, their corpses were hurled down the Gemonian Stairs, among the shouts and acclamations of the drunken slavish rabble. The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2
It is not slavish dread, nor is it cowardice, but the well-grounded emotion of men that know themselves too well to be confident and know the world too well to be daring and presumptuous. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
Ever accustomed to prompt and slavish obedience from others, the idea of his own wife, his favourite too, denying his modest request, almost drove him frantic. The Boy Slaves
A Christian was one who wasted his days in merely resisting the flesh; anybody who declined to rise against a tyrant was the victim of a slavish scrupulosity. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet
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