How To Use Slavishly In A Sentence
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You uncultured rubes probably think that having a vast army of servants slavishly waiting on you hand and foot is some great luxury.
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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.
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You don't need to stick slavishly to the recipe.
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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
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It did not classify plants in quite the most slavishly simple manner.
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We acknowledge the glamour and modernity of eating and drinking in American cities by slavishly imitating them in ours.
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The results are a stunning mix of surprisingly wearable garments that develop, rather than slavishly follow, current trends.
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The framers of the American Constitution believed that under a system of direct election the president would become slavishly responsive to popular passions.
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While Today was obviously the industry standard, the editors didn't slavishly follow its format or style.
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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
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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
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That's a place for films that rewrite genre conventions, rather than slavishly tick them off.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are also slavishly deferential entries on various historians and political scientists.
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You may as well slavishly follow skateboarding trends.
Times, Sunday Times
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We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.
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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
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They also slavishly accepted the amnesty that Pinochet and his generals had granted themselves to avoid trial for their crimes against humanity.
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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.
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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!
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I followed the recipe slavishly.
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You don't need to stick slavishly to the recipe.
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When a political columnist describes a cabinet minister in slavishly adoring terms, shouldn't we be told whether the two are pals?
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Do not slavishly adhere to traditional scale and arpeggio fingerings, especially in repertoire written after the mid-nineteenth century.
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We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.
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Everything else in the novel slavishly follows a simple formulaic adventure plot.
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We know from grim experience that footballers slavishly follow the lead of their manager.
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his followers slavishly believed in his new diet
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Oddly, there's a sense that some current contenders are simply slavishly imitating their post-punk forebears.
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All this time I was slavishly imitating a TV character and she thought I was a fashion trendsetter (albeit a disastrously failed one).
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Oh! -- to the really 'consecrate' in heart and thought I could give my life so easily, so slavishly even!
Marcella
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We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.
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Maybe it's the juxtaposition of gobby punk attitude alongside such a slavishly swotty excavation of rock'n'roll mythology that attracted attention.
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Shadow Skill slavishly follows the rules of the fighting anime genre as if it expects a test later.
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That's a place for films that rewrite genre conventions, rather than slavishly tick them off.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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To escape his aesthetic dilemma, Ambrose must find a form that neither repudiates the past nor slavishly imitates it.
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A fantastic range of modern and traditional architecture, with the modern architecture being sympathetic to the traditional, while not slavishly emulating it.
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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
