Sentences with word «slavishness»

It's the «Hotel California» in movie - form, featuring an endless amount of imploding pleasures for the horror fan (a scene in the motel coin - op Laundromat is destined for classic status), but the picture gets in its own way, ultimately, with its ironic slavishness to the formula ending.

On the flip - side, director Paul Verhoeven clearly had a winking eye on the pulpy, trashy story that was Basic Instinct: Taylor - Johnson and screenplay writer Kelly Marcel (Saving Mr. Banks, Terra Nova) show no such self - awareness, presenting the material in E.L. James» novel with an almost fatal slavishness to the written material.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

After the 2004 election, some leading Democrats» even John Kerry» said they were willing to rethink, if not their fealty to the abortion lobby, at least the slavishness with which it was expressed.