Sentences with word «slavish»

No amount of academic self - service on this topic or any other is going to erase the mindless cruelty inflicted on millions of human beings because of slavish devotion to these absurd prejudices.

However, note that Regionalism, with its specific focus on American themes, images and motifs, helped American art to gain confidence in itself and not to rely on slavish imitation of European styles.

Unlike Yooka - Laylee, which set out to revisit this same lost age of 3 - D platformers by resurrecting Banjo - Kazooie in slavish fashion, A Hat In Time is less beholden to a single predecessor.

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

Slavish copying of a work protected by copyright without consent is sometimes called theft.

Despite being on 3DS, Capcom's slavish dedication to maintaining the legacy controls from the PSP mean that tasks that

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

It's a process that requires intelligence and judgment by knowledgeable people, not slavish adherence to artificial categorizations.

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?

The original's commitment to tension and tone worked far better than the slackly - edited split personality of this film - a comparison almost directly invited by slavish repetition of many of the first film's story beats.

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

The philistine application of a Commandment -LRB-» You shall not make images or worship them») from the Jewish writings, the Old Testament, was for Luther a failure to understand the «Freedom» of the Word, which released one from slavish obedience to the Letter of the Law.

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.

Fortunately, Marsden Hartley and Arthur G. Dove were not slavish imitators like Weber; they learned from the Modern Master and then moved on.

WHY: Disney's live - action remake of «The Jungle Book» is one of the year's most pleasant surprises — a visually immersive adventure film that pays homage to the 1967 classic without feeling slavish.

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

Their independence has proved a welcome alternative to the usual slavish loyalty of «on - message» MPs.

I wanted the change that you represented - the return to socialist principles and grassroots values, a turning away from slavish adoration and idolisation of free markets - but it's time that we faced facts.

It pays slavish respect to the 1982 film whilst giving us a little bit more information about just what went on before that dog ran through the snow in Carpenter's classic.

Thus far our analysis of the democracy of desire as it bears upon work has concentrated on the resulting alternation between slavish effort and avoidance of labor.

When it comes to finances and contracts, the Buffalo Billion and all that jazz, it's got to be the independent state comptroller's office, not the compromised Empire State Development crowd or SUNY management team, which have proved just slavish wings of the Cuomo administration.

How to move beyond slavish devotion to experience may have been Einstein's greatest gift to the 20th century.

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.

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.

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.

Remaining true to the brand meant avoiding some of the most notoriously unlikable elements of traditional outsourcing: massive and depressing call centers, slavish working conditions, and resulting work that is less than stellar.

We don't know whether officials who lather slavish praise on Xi actually believe anything of what they say or are acting out purely out of fear and greed.

But Shepherd also keeps it real, telling readers to get a dog if they want slavish devotion.

: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).

He requires slavish devotion under the threat of eternal torture.

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.

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.»

a) Annoyingly slavish to the multiple choice paradigm to illustrate his point of view.

Faith in god doesn't equal slavish devotion to the ignoble rules of old catholic MEN.

So many christians refuse to look beyond what their leaders tell them, and that kind of slavish behavior leads to all sorts of tragedy.

Thus, the priests are merely slavish members of the pope's body (this is a spirito - magic reality), connected with the pope - head by the magical consecration or ordination.

It manifests itself in slavish observance.

Ed Slavish of Oahu explained, «The real local luaus are usually wedding receptions or babies» first birthday parties.

, and in its endorsement of Malpass, swipes at her as the «unelected cipher senator» and says she «almost overnight morphed from centrist Democrat to slavish follower of every hard - left special interest.»

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