How To Use Slavish In A Sentence

I've seen no convincing evidence of any slavish imitation, at least until now.
I do not dare to call slavish that which is royal. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Oh! -- to the really 'consecrate' in heart and thought I could give my life so easily, so slavishly even! Marcella
We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.
Everything else in the novel slavishly follows a simple formulaic adventure plot.

God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
This arises largely and insidiously from the slavish adoption here of virtually all Americanisms - some invaluable, the majority deplorable.
And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression. Chronicles of the Canongate
The provincial governments are not far behind in their slavish adherence to the OECD's dictums on how to run your government.
a slavish yes-man to the party bosses
Burying it all under a thick shell of bluster, bullying, slavish adherence to protocol and discipline.
We know from grim experience that footballers slavishly follow the lead of their manager.
his followers slavishly believed in his new diet
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
I am not suggesting for one moment that there is any moral equivalence between Tyson and Mandela, but a slavish adherence to the legal process ends up with the baby and the bathwater both getting chucked out.
And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression. Chronicles of the Canongate
But I should add that I’m a big believer in teaching children and anyone who’s just learning to write in English slavish adherence to grammatical rules. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kids These Days
At a time when much of his work was slavishly adulated, they caught his eye and appealed to his own sense of independence. Fanzine The End anthology is Liverpool's best-selling Christmas book
At present, so slavish is the attitude of nearly the whole British press that ordinary people have very little idea of what is happening, and may well be committed to policies which they will repudiate in five years time. As I Please
Had the administration paid heed to public opinion, not out of slavish deference but out of respect, we would've seen a different tax cut, and, with any luck, a sustainable popular majority for conservatism.
What Fox and the right mean by liberal indoctrination is anything other than slavish conformity to RIGHTWING propaganda Think Progress » Texas Education Agency Slams Fox News’s Fearmongering About The State’s Social Studies Curriculum Changes
Divorcing it of its context would strip away much of that heady period glamour to produce a diluted facsimile - even with slavish adherence to the original scripts.
The people on both sides who slavishly follow the ideology WITHOUT remembering the humanity of those who believe differently only succeed in dehumanizing their opponants. Nancy Reagan illuminates Kennedy-Reagan friendship
But when I read Jon's letter again I saw he was recommending not a slavish imitation but an attempt to be plain-spoken and honest. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
But in context virile and manly are always distinguished from servile or slavish; Tocqueville does not explicitly or implicitly contrast them to feminine or womanly.
But Kenan Malik argues that slavish adherence to the multiculturalist approach denies us our freedoms and diversity.
Slavish to this creed, planners brought us three soulless retail parks boasting multi-national chains selling artless tat on the outskirts of town.
Steve looked at them with contemptuous pity, these men that lived narrow, slavish lives in cooped-up places, men caught in ruts, graves with both ends kicked out…
CoffeeGeek: what you'd expect, a nanopublishing venture slavishly devoted to discussing the minutae of the bean in mind-numbing, exuberant detail. Boing Boing: May 11, 2003 - May 17, 2003 Archives
Was this the MSM, craven as ever, slavishly following the lead of the artistocracy - those who decide which frauds and daubs, which slabs of self-obsessed upper-middle-class logorrhea - constitute Art and Literature? Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television
Also, your slavish use of obsolete, twee and anglicised Hibernicisms is peculiarly un-Irish, not to mention unconvincing and uncouth.
Oddly, there's a sense that some current contenders are simply slavishly imitating their post-punk forebears.
Bacon emphasized that this ordeal of experiment was to be heroic testing, not the torture of a slavish and submissive victim.
I am exceedingly melancholy of complexion, subject to consumptions and chilliness of my vital spirits, a slavish and sickly life being allotted to me in his city.
This is not a horror story but I urge you not to shudder at Forster's vision of future humans reduced to fungoid growths by their slavish dependence on technology. Archive 2010-04-01
All this time I was slavishly imitating a TV character and she thought I was a fashion trendsetter (albeit a disastrously failed one).
Do not slavishly adhere to traditional scale and arpeggio fingerings, especially in repertoire written after the mid-nineteenth century.
We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.
And as a bondmaid steals away from a wealthy house, whom fate has lately severed from her native land, nor yet has she made trial of grievous toil, but still unschooled to misery and shrinking in terror from slavish tasks, goes about beneath the cruel hands of a mistress; even so the lovely maiden rushed forth from her home. The Argonautica
Maybe it's the juxtaposition of gobby punk attitude alongside such a slavishly swotty excavation of rock'n'roll mythology that attracted attention.
Shadow Skill slavishly follows the rules of the fighting anime genre as if it expects a test later.
There is a difference, he observes, between intelligent decentralized decisionmaking and slavish imitation.
That's a place for films that rewrite genre conventions, rather than slavishly tick them off. Times, Sunday Times
Now, thanks to a slavishly Bush-poodling Labour government with a startlingly authoritarian bent, Britons are beginning to recognize that this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden is about to become this surveillance state, this database depot, this green and pleasant centre of preventive detention, this precious home of biometrically-keyed national identification cards set in a sea of CCTV cameras. Jamie Malanowski: Bringing Freedom to Great Britain
She herself insists she is no slavish follower of fashion.
Perhaps they don't care, but that is contradicted by their slavish adherence to the latest fashions.
Its doors opened last year in a house dating from the 1920s, with decor that is reminiscent of the times to which its name refers, in a way that is retro without being self-consciously or slavishly repro.
Certain cultures and backgrounds, including rural/indigenous ones, aren't going to be so slavish to the clock. Dealing With The Tardiness Of Others | Lifehacker Australia
God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
I do note, however, that this remix deflects any criticism that Lali Puna are mere slavish Two Lone Swordsmen copyists.
Over the course of the week I spent with Marcon, I was drawn into the slavish drudge work that haute cuisine demands.
The plot, veering between slavish adherence and badly conceived alterations, has become incomprehensible, driven by coincidence of the implausible rather than that of the existential variety.
Thus far, especially in Scotland where the slavish adherence to the received wisdom of the unions is strongest, there is little sign of that thistle being grasped.
Well the word slavish, you might know, means submissive. CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2006
If nothing else, they will get the reader thinking about how they can play the opening in chess in a way that doesn't require a slavish adherence to 10 or 20 moves of opening theory.
To escape his aesthetic dilemma, Ambrose must find a form that neither repudiates the past nor slavishly imitates it.
A fantastic range of modern and traditional architecture, with the modern architecture being sympathetic to the traditional, while not slavishly emulating it.
The Charter thus also punctures the pollyannaish vision of the restored Chinese Nationalist Party Kuomintang government of President Ma Ying-jeou that rapid integration through "deregulation" with the PRC economy and slavish appeasement with the CCP regime will lead to "peace and prosperity" for Taiwan. Taiwan News on Charter 08 in China
Artists cannot use photographs too slavishly, however, because the shadow on a sail in one photograph may be out of sync with the light source in the painting, the action on the water inconsonant with the direction of the wind. Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy
But a lifetime of slavish attention to his books had tripped them up. FOOLS GOLD
However, more recent jurisprudence demonstrates a judicial resistance towards slavish adherence to that rule.
But like Saint Augustine, I eventually came to realize the double-minded futility of pretending to exalt Reason while spending my days in slavish service to Kundalini and the lizard brain.
So what would provoke an exceedingly individualistic, sufficiently unbeholden band to pledge such slavish devotion to a classic rock titan?
That's a place for films that rewrite genre conventions, rather than slavishly tick them off. Times, Sunday Times
Though uneven and a bit inchoate, it shows an awareness both of the more complex, radical aspects of Debussy and the Strauss of Salome and Elektra, without being slavishly imitative of either.
Obama's slavish conformity to pro-choice doublespeak is especially relentless. Verbal Duplicity and False Choices
You don't need to stick slavishly to the recipe.
There is a difference, he observes, between intelligent decentralized decisionmaking and slavish imitation.
What I AM saying is that it is foolish to maintain slavish adherence to “principle” if that adherence results in bad ends. Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll
For Lincoln saw an unresolvable tension between the Constitution of a democratic republic and the policies of aggrandizement and intemperate self-interest that lead from the manners of freedom to the slavish love of power. David Bromwich: To Maintain a Republic
There are those who believe that perhaps we've confused our responsibilities with the slavish adherence to the Lecoup strategy.
All other actors that we have ever seen reduce Zanga to a mere slavish croucher in all points; and destroy the very basis of the character by an overacted humiliation, highly improper because too glaring not to excite Alonzo’s suspicions. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
The characterization of appropriately ruled non-philosophers as slavish might suggest a special concern for the “heteronomous” character of their capacity to do what they want and a special valorization of the philosophers '“autonomous” capacity. Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic
Not slavishly or fanatically (as a compulsive overeater with a daily reprieve, I don't do well with fads and tangents). Victoria Moran: Veg and the City: The Life Changing Effects of a Raw Food Diet
Only the British public, with our slavish devotion to high-street spending, hold the key.
It did not classify plants in quite the most slavishly simple manner.
In our slavish devotion to pop culture, is there any hope of taming the monster of celebrity?
In fact, Zedillo's slavish obeisance to the NAFTA treaty and the neoliberal global economy has increased the number of Mexicans who live below the poverty line, some say by as much as 40%; dislocated millions of peasants and forced them into the edges of the cities to live in subhuman conditions while seeking work; made the Army a power in the civilian government roughly equal to where it stood in 1968 when the UNAM massacre took place; choked off needed funding for the systems of free education and health care; increased dramatically the percentage of Mexicans who are illiterate, addicted, and committing crimes; and produced more billionaires than have France, Great Britain, and Spain combined. The Oaxaca Newsletter volume 5, No. 14: August 15, 2000
Not for Thompson a slavish adherence to prudence, that is considered imperative in a contracting football market.
We acknowledge the glamour and modernity of eating and drinking in American cities by slavishly imitating them in ours.
Pope, however, distances himself from those who recommend a slavish adherence to the ancient rules and models.
The long association with Jogis had bred out canine slavishness.
We of to-day cannot realize the barbarously filthy and slavish lives of those that lived prior to 1925. Goliah
Nowadays, the emphasis has shifted to free-style, mixed-system practice where slavish adherence to traditional style is frowned upon, because it is seen to limit the survival options of a combatant.
It was scarcely surprising that the cholera should spread rapidly, for fear is its powerful auxiliary, and the Cruces people bowed down before the plague in slavish despair. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Travel stories can be a dodgy proposition, quite often varying between the detached, amused air of Western superiority and the slavish worship of all things foreign.
The results are a stunning mix of surprisingly wearable garments that develop, rather than slavishly follow, current trends.
She herself insists she is no slavish follower of fashion.
I see a difference between using the punchline without attribution (the ancient rule for commencement speakers has been to "make them suffer") and using the whole opening, including its rather unusual word choices ( "harangue," "slavish in its obedience to ancient custom," "beg for mercy"). Is That Legal?: academia Archives
I guess that means that I am a slavish follower of the ‘in’ crowd that I accepted an invitation to the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2006 program launch at the airport.
a slavish copy of the original
It shows a society that, white or red, encourages rapacity, self-deception and slavish respect for authority.
The framers of the American Constitution believed that under a system of direct election the president would become slavishly responsive to popular passions.
Don't put it down to your unoriginality and slavish conformity, though - blame the laws of statistical physics. Times, Sunday Times
While Today was obviously the industry standard, the editors didn't slavishly follow its format or style.
In explaining the term ward heeler, you described a heeler as “derived from a dog that a master brings to heel,” used to describe “a minor politician who slavishly followed his ward leader.” No Uncertain Terms
These great artists, so dissimilar in the outward aspects of their creations, agree in considering that the only way of advancement open to the aspirant is the attempt to form himself on the example of others, by imitating them not slavishly or mechanically, but in the same spirit in which they imitated their forerunners: even as the Albert Durer
The product either encourages slavish emulation of adult behavior, or assumes that what is enjoyable for children must be revolting for adults.
For the first time in decades, for example, governors and legislators under fiscal pressure are rethinking their slavish devotion to pouring massive funds into state university systems.
slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
Such new patterns or ornaments could be used both externally and internally in contemporary designs and break the slavish adherence to bare steel or frilly 19th century mimicry.
You uncultured rubes probably think that having a vast army of servants slavishly waiting on you hand and foot is some great luxury.
Wu Xun, it was argued, had in his slavish dependence on the feudal upper classes helped to perpetuate the old system and had actually helped to propagate its ideology among his fellow peasants.
Not only did the agreement go from ‘ignoble’ to ‘long-overdue,’ but the Frist commendation went from muted to slavish.
For all of Kumaratunga's talk of ‘a partnership’ with the US, the real relationship is one of slavish subservience in all spheres - economic, political and military.
In their self-regard as the last keepers of the flame of Western culture, this ex-dissident class renders themselves slavish imitators.
The truth is she can hardly imagine it, being so wrapped up in the day-to-day dance between her two sports and her slavish devotion to staying young and fit.
There are also slavishly deferential entries on various historians and political scientists.
Too perfect. A few years of slavish worship would be enough to ruin any of us.
You may as well slavishly follow skateboarding trends. Times, Sunday Times
‘After a decade of slavish adherence to central targets the evidence is that they simply don't work,’ said Mr Willis.
It is time Bulgarian media threw off their slavish following of manipulated arguments from those in power and see with their own eyes.
Nel contratto che mi ha fatto firmare lui aveva il final-cut ... matriarch per me, the quel punto della mia carriera, un lavoro televisivo non avrebbe regalato nulla ed ho lasciato che Lombardo gestisse le immagini: infatti, la mattina presto lui cambiava il mio montaggio fatto la sera, criminal la collaborazione slavish del montatore. Archive 2009-11-01
Hitchens' presence was an ongoing reminder of the media's own gutlessness; its slavish tracking to the well-worn grooves of positional politics; its sensation-whoring; its cowardly tolerance of lax language; its banal predictability; its collective fear of getting canned when the next crystalline MBA takes over the newsroom. Adam Hanft: The Hitchens Outpouring and Journalistic Self-Hatred
I agree with rh not that he cares one way or the other, especially that rising inflection Obama uses at the end of certain phrases, that I suppose he thinks underlines the phrase in question, when in fact it just annoys the hell out of any but the slavish. Which MSNBC character muttered "Oh, God" contemptuously as Bobby Jindal sauntered out to speak last night?
It is a vindication that the colonial mindset and slavish mentality are still alive among some Indians.
The free market had virtues too long eclipsed by slavish conformity to collective ideals that no longer seemed relevant.
He was able to manipulate their slavish willingness to serve in the name of patriotism.
We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.
As I wrote in Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, "what makes a cult cultish is not so much what it espouses, but how much authority its leaders grant themselves -- and how slavishly devoted to them its followers are. Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa - Boing Boing
I find a good general rule of thumb in trying anything new with my kids – from discipline to setting up a tooth brushing habit to getting into a homework routine – it takes at least 2 weeks of come-hell-or-highwater slavish consistency * without any deviation at all*. Boot Skootin’ Snot Boogerin’ Nobody’s Sleepin’ Boogie | Her Bad Mother
They also slavishly accepted the amnesty that Pinochet and his generals had granted themselves to avoid trial for their crimes against humanity.
One must either be white or turn on one’s own race in slavish support of whites. Balloon Juice » 2003 » January
The particular works of each are manifestations of the general character of his lifework, whether it was of faith and love whereby alone we can please God and escape condemnation. pass -- Greek, "conduct yourselves during." sojourning -- The outward state of the Jews in their dispersion is an emblem of the sojourner-like state of all believers in this world, away from our true Fatherland. fear -- reverential, not slavish. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The one upside to the fact that we no longer have any real leaders, only ersatz ones slavishly addicted to following public opinion, is that at the end of the day, public outrage really matters.
This ludicrously overrated copycat director gives a nonperformance to temper the ardor of his most slavish fans.
I am not a slavish supporter of what he has done at the DfEE.
A variety of public institutions with stands at the festival seem to have tried to outdo each other in their sycophancy and slavish devotion.
Such slavish acceptance of Santa as fact may well be happily entertaining for parents, but a build-up of dangerously pure faith brings with it the threat of a crushing letdown when that heart - warming belief is shattered.
Yesterday in the face of all this, even the state-owned Herald newspaper was finding it difficult to maintain its usual slavish support for government policies.
Then there is the slavish devotion of these girls to Wataru, which (so far, at least) is completely unearned - what has he done to deserve their high, almost worshipful regard?
Their route to the top 10 was simply via ear-grabbing originality, rather than slavish imitation of current trends.
In just a few hundred words, his article combines smears, factoids and plain foolishness in a thick stew of slavish political partisanship. Archive 2009-08-01
She herself insists she is no slavish follower of fashion.
But if he's right, it's a strange situation - slavish adherence to a flawed assumption, which produces an outcome that pleases only one segment of the audience and alienates many.
I enjoy the fact that I live in a country where I can bitch about the coffee and find one that slavishly responds to my infantile wheedling and I am infantile about my cuppa jobe. It's the coffee!
This is what we call slavish devotion to The One. ... INSTAPUTZ
Burying it all under a thick shell of bluster, bullying, slavish adherence to protocol and discipline.
The perception appears to be that I am such a slavish adherent of the letter of the law that I do not grasp the spirit of it.
I followed the recipe slavishly.
You don't need to stick slavishly to the recipe.
And except for a few slavish devotees too intimidated by her will and less concerned with her methods, it's difficult to come away without becoming more powerful and original, yourself.
She was the best of Old Father's twelve students, the kindest, and the least slavish, and Danlo was a little in love with her. THE BROKEN GOD
It is rather pitiful that Cork hospitals are being so slavish in considering following the lead set down by Dublin.
Now we have a fellow who clearly expects slavish cooperation, even when he goes off the rails of recognizable human sexuality.
All the world over before Christ's time, he freely domineered, and held the souls of men in most slavish subjection (saith [6371] Eusebius) in diverse forms, ceremonies, and sacrifices, till Christ's coming, as if those devils of the air had shared the earth amongst them, which the Anatomy of Melancholy
Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers.
When a political columnist describes a cabinet minister in slavishly adoring terms, shouldn't we be told whether the two are pals?
Burying it all under a thick shell of bluster, bullying, slavish adherence to protocol and discipline.
Dutch justice minister Piet Hein Donner is what one can call a slavish democrat. The Rule of Reason

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