How To Use Submissiveness In A Sentence

  • Men are conditioned to find pleasure in dominance, whereas women - against their self-interest - are conditioned to enjoy submissiveness.
  • Irish judges and juries did not insist on conformity to a feminine ideal of domestic submissiveness; a woman who fought back was not treated as having forfeited her right to legal recourse by ‘unsexing’ herself.
  • Somebody claiming to detect a divine design in respect of himself may phrase the idea in terms of humility, even submissiveness.
  • The letter additionally criticized the ruling party of Prime Minister Donald Tusk for "submissiveness" toward Russia and acting like a "client" with Germany, adding that his The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • Removing one's footwear before entering a home or a temple before worship denotes a sign of respect, humility and submissiveness.
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  • submissiveness" and the light-heartedness of the French did not prevent their being also fickle; and their "docility" was varied by fits of violent quarrelling with their American neighbors and among themselves. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790
  • The more these changes take place in public opinion, the more reckless, really, the Israeli government has become, and it's all the more surprising, therefore, that Canada should have a government so absolutely ... well, I don't want to use the word craven because that would suggest submissiveness. Rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
  • Removing one's footwear before entering a home or a temple before worship denotes a sign of respect, humility and submissiveness.
  • I doubt that anyone who has seen "Waiting for Superman" would agree with Ezra that unions are helpless to "define the status quo," or that enforced employee submissiveness is a major problem in the public schools. Charles Lane: On Wisconsin, again
  • If you questioned it, your loyalty and submissiveness quickly became the issue, and you were “dealt with accordingly.” Recovering From Religious Abuse
  • It is vital that you retain your dominance over your dog, and this dog shows clear signs of submissiveness.
  • Passivity, submissiveness and coyness can be dangerous, and may create an atmosphere of sexual aggression.
  • And in their zeal and submissiveness they are so innocently meek and "biddable" that they can listen with reverence to young Hyrum Smith publicly lecturing the grandmothers of the order for occasionally partaking of a cup of thin tea. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft
  • It exasperates the less extravagantly gifted but I have never thought that it reveals a submissiveness of mind. VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age
  • Of course there exist caricatures of a misguided humility and a mistaken submissiveness, which we do not want to imitate. Chrism Mass in Rome [Update]
  • True womanhood emphasized the qualities of piety, purity, maternity, submissiveness, virtue, and domesticity.
  • The modulation from aggrieved femininity to fawning submissiveness in her wooing is masterfully handled.
  • You may be plagued with indecisiveness or revert to emotional "default" positions forged during childhood, such as submissiveness, rebellion or self-undermining behavior. Douglas LaBier: An Inside-Out Life: Protection From the Growing Backlash -- Part 1
  • Despite being commonly held up as a paragon of the submissiveness, obedience, and loyalty that many men would like to see in their wives, women have often taken other lessons from her behaviour.
  • That sword tormented him beyond measure, brought him an intolerable horror of suffering in woman, the very thought of which scattered his pious submissiveness to the winds. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
  • The republicans, in their submissiveness and spinelessness, were trying to impress the media and all the idiots who voted for Obama with their willingness to PANDER for votes like the democrats. Gingrich blames 'elite media' for Steele questions
  • submissiveness" following the crushing defeat of their chosen national leaders. The Register
  • And that means, even allowing for the craven submissiveness of the general media, one more chance for the administration to be exposed for the cruel and psychopathic clods that they are.

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