How To Use Servility In A Sentence

  • Pius VII. would not yield; but Napoleon found greater servility in the metropolitan officialty of Paris; and October 6, 1806, he secured a sentence pronouncing the nullity of his brother Jerome's marriage with The Court of the Empress Josephine
  • The last thing Communist Party members should exhibit is the servility Lu Xun used to condemn.
  • She's a curious mixture of stubbornness and servility.
  • TOADY emphasizes the servility and snobbery of the self-seeker cultivated leaders of society and became their toady. Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again
  • After his death he was described as having "no cringing servility".
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  • In the Roman successor states of western Europe, the feudal system contained a hint of servility in the act of homage that liege lords found it unwise to presume upon.
  • They demand respect and obedience but not servility.
  • “Let those whose servility of soul qualified them for the menial task truckle to the Executive,” he declared. A Country of Vast Designs
  • I have said that this condemnation to intellectual barrenness is the strongest proof of the essential servility of woman's position in the eyes of man, and I repeat that statement. Marriage as a Trade
  • Acting the role of considerate host, his cheerful grin removed any suggestion of servility. FINAL RESORT
  • The last thing Communist Party members should exhibit is the servility Lu Xun used to condemn.
  • She's a curious mixture of stubbornness and servility.
  • There's a low hum of conversation, a genteel clink of polished silver on old china, waiters in tails exuding an air of quiet efficiency and old-fashioned servility.
  • The whole of the first act consists of one emphatic jeremiad by Cicero, about the desperate condition of Rome as it then was, its factiousness, its servility, -- a jeremiad which is continued at the end of the act, by the chorus, in rhymed stanzas. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
  • She found the servility of the hotel staff embarrassing.
  • This sort of exaggerated emphasis on good manners can be used to promote servility.
  • These privileges were the reward for the abnegation and servility demanded of Party functionaries.
  • It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
  • Bat Ye'or defined dhimmitude thus (my emphasis): dhimmitude [...] represents a behavior dictated by fear (terrorism), pacifism when aggressed, rather than resistance, servility because of cowardice and vulnerability. Archive 2008-07-01
  • The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
  • Not just the memorization, but the literary culture at the heart of the exercise, was, they claimed, sterile and unfruitful, and promoted a culture of servility harmful to the free creative play of the mind.
  • Windsor Castle, or the New Houses of Parliament, be assured that loyalty and John Bullism reign there; and, although you meet with no servility, you will not be disgusted with vulgar assumption, such as cocking up dirty legs in dirty boots on a dirty stove, wearing the hat, and not deigning to answer a civil question. Canada and the Canadians Volume I
  • Acting the role of considerate host, his cheerful grin removed any suggestion of servility. FINAL RESORT
  • a kind of taffeta-lining to the Crown, his servility has assumed an air of the most determined independence, and he has The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
  • It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake

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