Sentences with phrase «for slavish»

The Wizard has gained cult status for its slavish devotion to all things Nintendo, putting its entire product catalogue on the screen for you to enjoy and, hopefully, to buy.

Knowledge of evil is an «inadequate» knowledge, fit only for slavish minds.

There is a half - truth to this demand for slavish imitation, this insistence on the direct mimesis of cultural norms.

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.

The maker of the iPad and iPhone has sued three of the largest manufacturers of Google's Android - based devices — Samsung, Motorola and HTC — for multiple patent infringements across multiple countries, pointing out «slavish copying» of design and «look and feel.»

My hope is that a few people will have a good laugh and maybe a few more will take it seriously enough to investigate for themselves the Bitcoin scaling debate instead of accepting the slavish dogmatism coming out of the Core community.

:P), many people have different opinion of «slavish life» or «cheapskates lifestyle ``, but I can tell you I don't eat ramen noodle, I eat fillet mignon 1 - 4 times a week which we cook for ourselves).

It implies, for instance, that the evangelical slavish devotion to laissez - faire, exploitative capitalism (which they call liberty) is a sin against God's vision for this world, a vision God has entrusted to humanity to carry out.

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

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.

For authentic democracy the people must have respect for law, but not a slavish subservience to any existing code of laFor authentic democracy the people must have respect for law, but not a slavish subservience to any existing code of lafor law, but not a slavish subservience to any existing code of laws.

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).

We also have our friend Nietzsche (whom I really need to read more fully for myself), who considers the Superman to be the one who is more spiritual, more advanced, rather than the slavish people more aligned with the monkeys.

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

The phrase «Uncle Tom» has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group.

Despite my slavish admiration for a former prime minister, I never liked even his overwrought rhetorical presentations.

Putting aside the fact that our so - called «liberal» media keeps pushing phony landline polls and a false narrative about an «angry electorate» sane and reasonable Americans will direct our anger towards the GOBPbaggers who have no useful ideas to offer except their slavish devotion to the disproven ideas of their Friedman / Rand cult of deregulation, globalism and tax cuts for the ultrawealthy.

Edgar Wright didn't forget that this is a movie, and while he shows obvious love for the books, he didn't fall into the trap of slavish adaptation.

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.

Happiness Runs (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama about a neglected kid (Mark L. Young) raised on a polygamous hippie commune in Malibu who becomes wise enough to start looking for another path than his parents» one which was marked by promiscuity, drugs and a slavish devotion to an exploitative guru (Rutger Hauer).

Abrams displays reverence for the source material, but not slavish devotion, which would be both pointless and commercial suicide.

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.

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.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

Slavish flattery aside, thanks for coming on to my blog and answering some questions about yourself, your process, and your literary journey.

It offsets Derrick's slavish love of the Wii and every peripheral made for it, and Jennifer's exasperated tolerance of the cavemen she shares the podcast with.

Yet the game also came in for its fair share of criticism for its slow and inconsequential opening, largely empty world, bland colour palette, litany of rupee - related annoyances, relative lack of difficulty and slavish devotion to aping Ocarina at the expense of the freshness offered by predecessors Majora's Mask and the aforementioned Wind Waker.

Despite being on 3DS, Capcom's slavish dedication to maintaining the legacy controls from the PSP mean that tasks that should be effortless with a touch screen — using your inventory, for example — are instead still controlled by holding down a trigger and using the face buttons.

For William Merritt Chase, one of the many artist friends he eventually fell out with, there might well have been «two distinct Whistlers,» but only one was genuine: «Whistler the tireless, slavish worker, ceaselessly puttering, endlessly striving to add to art.»

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.

However given his slavish devotion and outright hostility to anyone who dares question the religion of Mann Made Global Warming ™ it suggests his leaving Boeing at 31 wasn't for career advancement?

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 an article in the London Financial Times (2 August 2007, p. 9) Clive Crook, a Washington, DC - based columnist for the newspaper, writes that the IPCC is a seriously flawed enterprise and unworthy of the slavish respect accorded to it by most governments and the media» and goes on:

It is rightly pointed out that Fred Singer and many other skeptics by contrast are retired or else elder scientists, and therefore lack both the same slavish dependence and arrogant ambition the mega-billion dollar conflicts of interest that younger government scientists thrive on — yet it still remains fashionable to condemn the little funding that private interests do for the skeptics while giving a uncritical pass to ACW proponents.

The devout are not faithful, for the most part, because they read about God in a book, or have never got beyond a slavish innocent reliance on what their elders told them, but out of deep life experience.

It was our slavish devotion to the corporate creed and its contempt for human frailty that created global warming and now the monster mocks us and everything we have come to stand for.»

So assuming then that eBooks should not be slavish recreations of their physical equivalents, how should they be changed for the digital environment?