Sentences with phrase «slavish devotion»

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

Yes, she's a vampire who feeds off the blood harvested by her guardian (Richard Jenkins, a hollow man with failing skills so deadened by his work that slavish devotion alone drives him).

We've often commented on Asus's apparently slavish devotion to mimicking the designs of Apple's MacBook range.

However, Russian Communism intentionally adopted many of the trappings of religion — including dogmatic beliefs, iconic symbols, slavish devotion, and ritualistic gatherings — in order to establish cultural control.

Continued blind, slavish devotion to an unnecessary god?

An administration with a slavish devotion to the brutal killing of unborn children through abortion would face even GREATER consequences!!!

Andrew J. Bacevich has misrepresented the underlying premise of Pat Buchanan's criticism of «America's slavish devotion to global free trade.»

It's the major thing that made the Attitude Era work — everyone likes to point to the shock value of the late - 90s as bringing eyeballs back to WWE, but the fact that RAW is WAR made consistent sense while WCW's Nitro was often a thoughtless, pointless use of your Monday thanks to its slavish devotion to New World Order storylines that went nowhere is what helped WWE win the Monday Night War.

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

That leaves us without a humane or compassionate assessment of our predicament, rather than the slavish devotion to the market and dewy - eyed sentimentality about the nation state which transfixes conservative eurosceptics.

Gone, it appears, is the slavish devotion to the great business and financial magnates that so typified New Labour under Tony Blair.

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.

Director Donald Rice, working from a script co-written with Mary Henely Magill, adapts Julia Strachey's 1932 novel of the same name with a slavish devotion to the literal that borders on suffocation.

A familiar premise, sure, but this got a midnight slot at Cannes of all places, and while Jessica called it a «slavish devotion to great films that have gone before» and «little more than an extremely affectionate fake,» I'm still very curious to check it out.

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.

In fun's place find lugubrious, slavish devotion to formula that's only temporarily relieved by a cameo from Bruce Campbell as a sadistic gym teacher, Cloris Leachman as the school nurse, and Kid in the Hall Kevin McDonald as wide - eyed Mr. Medulla.

«I'm incredibly happy about it — we've got a director that understands that world, and writers with a slavish devotion to the canon of that character.

The selfless Mammy's behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to white folks» domestic concerns, often at the expense of those of her own family's needs.

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).

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While it still beats slogging through Tolkien's doorstop of a novel and fans might delight in such a slavish devotion to the source material, the rest of us will no doubt still suffer.

While rhyme is useful for developing language, a slavish devotion to it reduces the act of expressing powerful emotions and thoughts to straining to find a word that rhymes with orange.

It is better to profit from finding market errors than a slavish devotion to what worked last month or last year.

Photo: UbisoftIn addition to the slavish devotion to detail, you can expect dynamic weather conditions, including snowfall and fog.

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.

A highly original type of cartoon - style realism, featuring images of enigmatic Klu Klux Klan - style hooded figures, cigarette buts, stained coffee cups, messy beds and lonely men, it represented a decisive break from the slavish devotion to abstract art practised by so many critics and curators.

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.

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?

By learning to live within ecological limits and restricting our economic activity to what can be reasonably achieved within the Earth's carrying capacity, proponents argue that we might actually find ourselves freed from the slavish devotion to the economic treadmill.

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.»