subservience

How To Use subservience In A Sentence

• Bowing your head to a monarch is an act of subservience. Should you be bothered that Pres. Obama bowed to the Japanese emperor? « Dating Jesus
• Talk of drawing moral battle lines rather than building bridges would suggest that subservience rather than respect, as your political masters crave, is the objective. Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
• They refuse to live in subservience to governmental elites.
• Conversely, to be in a relationship with a passionate and self-assured Latino doesn't imply subservience to the dominant macho.
• He is obsessed with religion, with strict adherence to ceremony and unquestioning subservience to the teachings of the church.
• It is too much associated with a truckling, subservience to English people and English ideas and the silly swagger of the hop-o'-my-thumb junior officer. Education and Empire Unity
• Subservience is also shown because other prisoners see it as a mask, necessary for survival for weaker or less competent prisoners.
• Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judged bowed down in subservience by the machine to a divekeeper who swung a string of votes. The Benefit of the Doubt
• His aesthetic theories, which naturally dominate his writing, run counter to this idea of the subservience of art to nature.
• They must exchange subservience to the pressures of the id for acting in accordance with the ego.