Sentences with phrase «as slavish»

Shaw's dedication to abstraction coincided with the ascendancy of social realism in the United States, when American artists working in abstract forms were sometimes disregarded as slavish imitators of European painting.

Oh, FFS, these Kindle fanatics are getting as slavish as iTools in their devotion.

Yet, this idea, taken wrongly and too far and the dismissal of Christianity as slavish was NOT a good idea.

Not exact matches

If you are a banker, or by some other qualification a member of what Taibbi dubs here «the grifter class» for whom «government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies... use as a tool for making money» — well, you and the author are not going to get along.

Those that believe in the sacrificial and purity gods, collapse into rule keeping, legislative righteousness, slavish thinking, and venomous anger as they kill their own gay children or chant «holiness» as they murder in fact or figuratively.

And thus do they pervert and distort the Scriptures, making them the guide to slavish details of the daily life and an authority in things nonspiritual instead of appealing to the sacred writings as the repository of the moral wisdom, religious inspiration, and the spiritual teaching of the God - knowing men of other generations.»

John Adams, even ten years before the Revolution, could write: «I always consider the settlement of America as the opening of a grand scheme and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Until recently those sciences have been marred by a slavish imitation of the methods and concepts of the physical sciences (as, for example, in behavioristic psychology).

Or, to speak like Aristotle in his Poetics, the mythos is the way to true mimesis, which is not slavish imitation, or a copy, or mirror - image, but a transposition or metamorphosis — or, as I suggest, a redescription.

It's about love as you said so yourself, before you went off the deep end with your slavish interpretation.

I often wonder whether Tony Blair listened from No 10 as the Mirror delivered another broadside over Iraq and asked what he had done to deserve such a slavish champion of his party.

The Greek city states are for example presented as the first exercise in self - government, surrounded by slavish oriental despots.

It had more pizzazz than anything else that seems like a Best Film of the season, it managed to be explicitly about movies without violating its trajectories as a first - rate genre film (thriller), it was rife with the best, least slavish sort of hommages, and it tapped into the moods and mannerisms of other cinéastes like Nick Ray, Hitchcock, and Hopper without for a moment ceasing to be Ein Film von Wim Wenders.

And to their credit, Denis Villeneuve and his collaborators only rarely feint towards slavish imitation of the original; certain scenes come off as echoes and evocations rather than simple copies — for example, a postmortem scan of bones corresponding to the photograph analysis in the original.

All things said, the text of «Beowulf» would prove nearly impossible to craft into a commercial motion picture if it were to adhere to complete slavish adaptation, as those great early epic stories, born from oral tradition, weren't exactly rife with depth of characters or motivations.

These two unions have been under attack for the past few years by reformers who point to their slavish clinging to the status quo as a major barrier to badly needed education reform.

Attracted by handbills, immigrants came: English and Irish, then Italians and Hungarians; then Poles and Slovaks and Ukrainians and Croats, the «Slavish,» as they were collectively known.

His main enemy in discourse was euphemism, just as his main enemy in practice was the abuse of power, and (more important) the slavish willingness of people to submit to it.

In addition to the novelty of the double bed, Singapore First Class and Suites service is regarded as among the very best — professional and attentive yet friendly and personable, not slavish.

A 10/10 simulator wrapped up in a 5/10 game — it's driving is as exhilarating as anything that's gone before, and its slavish obsession with the minutiae of many of its cars ensure it's an encyclopaedia of automotive delights.

And as you said, it's not a slavish recreation of the story of game number three.

Battlefront II, the new video game where you can play as Bossk before you spend a dozen hours unlocking Luke Skywalker, has a slavish dedication to fancy graphics and Star Wars action.

In the Spring 1998 issue of Modern Painters, the painter Trevor Winkfield described Abstract Expressionism «as a monolith» that has been «accorded a reverential deference which... seems a mite slavish, if not downright unhealthy.»

Such slavish adherence to current market trends has been the failure of other nonprofits, such as LAXART (where Garcia used to work).

As Christopher Bedford describes, Yuskavage's paintings «are disarmingly present, even naked in their address, laying themselves bare for inspection not because they are exacting and slavish in their depictions, but instead because they hold little if anything back.

His 2009 work, Walthamstow Tapestry, satirised our slavish devotion to brands — and yet his recent exhibition at the British Museum was sponsored by the luxury brand Louis Vutton, as well as a City firm, Alix Partners.

Invoking the likes of Alexander Pope and Charles Mackay, Nikiforuk decried Canada's «slavish [tar sands] promoters for omit [ing] the troubling facts as hawkers do.

In general, «slavish copying» (generally interpreted as making a best - effort attempt to re-create the original work in a new medium) does not attract a new copyright.