Sentences with phrase «in slavish»

Santa's elves got fed up freezing their asses off in slavish servitude to the jolly elf, and so they all went out and bought heaters, fired»em up, and started the polar ice melting,... which scared the crap out of the reindeer — LITERALLY, more crap, which caused more greenhouse gases to enter the atmosphere, which caused more polar warming, which caused more ice to melt, which caused wind patterns to change, thus, driving the wee cloud - warming fairies out of their warm clouds, creating colder temperatures, transferred by the changing wind patterns, intercepted by all Northern Hemisphere unicorns that inhaled it and exhaled it about the continent to produce record cold temperatures.

Homebirth advocates will NOT under any circumstances entertain the notion that they are wrong in their slavish devotion to anything that increases the autonomy of midwives.

I have tried to follow Teilhard but not in a slavish way.

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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.»

Even if it happened to be a good man who in the agony of fear preserved a certain slavish blamelessness out of fear of punishment: still he is double - minded.

Do you do good only out of fear of punishment, so that you scowl, even when you will the Good, so that in your dreams at night, you wish away the punishment and to that extent also the Good, and in your dreams by day imagine that one can with a slavish mind serve the Good?

Yet, it must be said that with all her borrowing, Japan has never been slavish in the matter.

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.

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.

That same phrase, «the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind,» is found in both the Maryland and Tennessee Constitutions.

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.

«It is time to end the slavish devotion to the Democrat [ic] Party,» Jackson, who is African American, said in a 2012 YouTube video.

The public will not easily forgive his slavish backing of the Tories in selling off the HNS.

His assaults on public education, his slavish giveaways to the wealthiest New Yorkers, his obvious disinterest in poor working people are repulsive to me and to a lot of people here.»

Gordon Brown appears set to adopt a less - slavish alliance with the US, with signs of a change in direction of UK foreign policy.

The interesting dimension in all of these two scenarios is that the state governors are neck deep in the sinister plots to rope in the duo of Senator Melaye and Shehu Sani only because they are outspoken and have refused to toe the slavish party line of the President or that of these self - seeking governors.

And his inner ring of aides appears to have formed a small cult around him, insisting he enjoys an ineffable mystic bond with «the people,» and that all who glimpse his pure beatific aura must fall into instantaneous ecstasies of awe and reverence, and speak of him afterward in only the most cringing and slavish terms.

The Farrelly's devotion to the original shorts is slavish, although they obviously can't resist sprinkling in some maudlin sentiment towards the end.

Like Ross's own old - meets - new appropriation, the 1981 meta - musical Pennies From Heaven, in which Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken danced and lip - synched to Depression era - standards, Brewer's Footloose is an attempt to get at the heart of contemporary culture via slavish re-creation of an earlier time.

Is Marvel Studios joining other superhero studios Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox and Sony in breaking away from slavish devotion to comic book canon in terms of onscreen diversity?

These images are burned into the American psyche; any attempt to recreate them in fictionalized form runs a high risk of turning into either slavish re-enactment or rosy hagiography.

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).

Directing from a solidly plotted script by Brian Helgeland, who isn't slavish to the original film (the film credits John Godey's novel but not the 1976 screenplay adaptation), he delivers a focused and refreshingly straightforward thriller that forgoes the usual high tech confusion and contrived high - concept twists so often laid in to surprise audiences.

One of the reasons that Prince Caspian works so well is that the creative team [writers Stephen McFeely, Christopher Markus and Andrew Adamson, who also directed] took the key elements of the story and built an epic tale around them without feeling the need to be slavish in their adaptation.

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.

The only human connection in his life is his mother (a superb Judith Roberts), whom he treats with slavish affection mixed with pity, revulsion, and guilt.

Director Peyton Reed wasn't given an easy task coming onboard so late in the game, but he does an admirable job of producing a streamlined, standalone adventure that weaves in references to the MCU without feeling slavish to the material.

I have to go from one movie to the next and be true to what's happened, but not be slavish to it... The model I'm always trying to build from, my guiding star, is The Godfather Part II where a ton has happened in - between... but you don't need any information: it's there in the film.

Many adaptation of classic novels pay slavish attention to historical / period detail, particularly in terms of dress, and have a cool colour palette — possibly taking their tone from grey / white mansions in large green parks in England, where it never stops raining — but this film is different.

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

«If you're not an author with a slavish fan following, you're in a lot of trouble,» self - published author Bob Mayer told the NYT's David Streitfeld.

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.

«If you're not an author with a slavish fan following, you're in a lot of trouble,» Mr. Mayer said.

Although they bond easily and tightly to their human families, most northern dogs are not slavish in their affections.

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.

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.

You can also tell it's a sim from the game's slavish dedication to stats - 78 cars, 22 locations and 100 tracks fill the Grid: Autosport disc - more than twice the number of circuits featured in Grid 2, but still a long way short of Gran Turismo 6's 1100 + vehicles.

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.»

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.

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.

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 oIn 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 oin 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:

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.

One can rephrase the question slightly and still be a «profitable» lawyer who works less than 1200 hours per year in a law fim that bills its clients without slavish reliance on the billable hour.

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