slavishness

We simply do not wish them bound to this level of slavishness.

This "Sabrina" is intelligently faithful to the original without slavishness.

He really did get off on slavishness.

The slavishness and absence of imagination that made him a joke at school turn out to be just the ticket with the English establishment.

Freed from the slavishness of most authorized biography, the film makers try bold strokes.

Just as in the end he had always conformed, not out of slavishness but because he believed in the fight and, despite everything, the team.

His slavishness to promptness causes several tragedies which alienate him from his family.

Farrokh was appalled to witness his father's slavishness before everyone who was even marginally involved.

Flaubert's friends, talented enough writers themselves, followed the literary marketplace with a slavishness Flaubert couldn't match.

But you protect his individuality by frowning on slavishness and on anyone who doesn't keep a strictly private side to his life.

He would think it was mere slavishness; and if he liked it, he would be a slave.

We have laws to prevent such obstruction, a code of conduct to stop such power seizure in the guise of staff slavishness.

All of this makes Buttermilk Channel a restaurant of real standards, noteworthy ambition and uncommon slavishness to trends.

Look into a dog's eyes, said Swiss pastor Lavater, and you see the vast difference from yourself; besides, the ears are floppy, sign of slavishness.

Ultimately, that slavishness to the past subverts progress, and the new ideas that are implied in an individual style, that jazz needs to survive.

Ms. De Keersmaeker largely escapes that trap with choreography that echoes the music without slavishness.

The whole drift of modern religious feeling is against this exaggeration of sexual feeling, these moods of sexual slavishness, in spiritual things.

She might discover how the public broadcaster, in a kind of Pravda-style slavishness, merely operates to safeguard the cult of celebrity around that First Minister.

I am aware that some men achieve Sinanju and others are mired in the slavishness of servants, no matter how perfect the training or the master who administers it.

Al saw the dark brooding eyes of his brother, and the prison calm, the smooth hard face trained to indicate nothing to a prison guard, neither resistance nor slavishness.

Slate Magazine, noting the resemblance, sniffed that "seeing the two stores side by side (makes) team Redmond look a bit pathetic" in the slavishness of their imitation.

But the world of fact, after all, is not good; and, in submitting our judgment to it, there is an element of slavishness from which our thoughts must be purged.

The potatoes appear among a predictable profusion of sides, many given a vacuously luxurious sprinkling of truffles or truffle oil, just to tip the restaurant's slavishness to trendiness off the charts.

But although I was torn a new web-hole for writing a premature-but-spoiler-free dork paean to the movie's slavishness to its source material, MAD just gives it all away for $4.99, cheap!

Luc Besson's film could scarcely be more slavish in its devotion to the lady and to her principles of non-violent resistance, but slavishness is no tinder for a drama – it's a retardant.