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How to use slavishness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word slavishness? Here are some examples.

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Yet both agree that, when it comes to our slavishness to fossil fuels, the days of complacency are over.
It's a slavishness to a new orthodoxy and it's not actually paying the results that we've been promised.
Look at this monstrous vanity and stupid slavishness to fashion!
Howard's case is unusual, both for the slavishness with which he has followed Bush's lead and for the comprehensiveness of his defeat.
On other days, Hong Kong's western chic, or yang qi, was derided as slavishness to foreign devils, or yang gui zi.
If that is an absence of slavishness, the special relationship could certainly use more of it.
Faithful to the style of the original, but not to the point of slavishness, Davis's effort is transparent — the reader never senses her presence.
The slavishness of this translation has many parallels in other cultures.
Political free thinkers will call this behaviour a form of slavishness, where the people are conditioned from a very early age to be part of an assembly line.
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.
Examples from Classical Literature
He is not boisterously contemptuous of the slavishness of Senators as Penrose was.
The twin curses of democracy, slavishness and jealousy, are curiously blended in their views of social and political life.
Was it mere slavishness of mind on my part not to overrule her timid will?
And then does his being a slave involve a practice of self-servitude, and a masking of that slavishness as divine other-worship?
Those alternatives are despotism and slavishness, ruling others as though they were slaves or living like a slave by preferring pleasure and wealth to what is truly good.
But in her latest biography, the slavishness is excruciating.
It suggests viewing God in awe and wonder, not in belittling slavishness.
An almost pedantic accuracy, even slavishness, with regard to the words of the literary text is something of a hallmark of Bortko's style of adaptation.
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