Girls grew up knowing that they had to be hardworking and submissive so that they could find good husbands who would take good care of them. |
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How does God begin and carry forward his submissive prostration of the soul, before his awful justice? |
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A sweet and submissive mantrap, Irina ultimately makes away with an art collection, most of the petty cash, and the show. |
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When a mandrill bares its teeth, it is not threatening to attack, but rather showing a submissive behavior. |
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She may advocate a matriarchy, but it is a matriarchy where leaders remain irreproachably ladylike, and therefore ultimately submissive to men. |
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Steve had played games with her mind, and she had been meek and submissive. |
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Is it that they only want to find a submissive wife who will bear children and become homemakers? |
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This was something Auria would do, not me, her sensible, level headed, mousy sister who was submissive and docile. |
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She offers new interpretations of the masochistic body art of the 1970s, exploring associations with the submissive suffering of Christ. |
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Bacon emphasized that this ordeal of experiment was to be heroic testing, not the torture of a slavish and submissive victim. |
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The departing male flaps off with an unusual gliding rhythm that Kemp suspects is a loser butterfly's submissive slink. |
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You don't have to be a unidimensional creature forever rebelling or forever submissive. |
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At the feast which follows the three bridegrooms wager on whose wife is the most docile and submissive. |
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The old, spunky Madeline was gone and in her place was the submissive shadow of her former self. |
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Dee believed the Angels to be obedient servants of God, submissive to the authority of Christ. |
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At times she is combative, at times submissive, according to the situation and her state of mind. |
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Historically, such a profoundly submissive capitulation, as took place in the Soviet case, was a rarity. |
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The prisoners were all perfectly submissive and paid every deference to the wishes of those in whose custody they were placed. |
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He shows that slaves who seemed submissive and passive were cleverly using the language of their masters and subverting it to their own ends. |
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If it is sweet, servile and submissive, a new dog could bully your first dog into a life of fear and despair. |
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Gentle and debonair in manners, he knows how to be a submissive husband and cater to the needs of his sweetheart. |
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I think it is just they are not aware of pressurising you to make you conform or to make you submissive. |
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They must have given him some powerful drugs to have him so submissive and humble. |
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There is, and always has been, a lot more to women than the meek, submissive weaklings that we have been made out to be throughout the centuries. |
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She said he made the entire family proud by challenging the court and that he was never scared or submissive. |
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It's too bad that some men feel they can only express their submissive side by taking on the identity of a woman. |
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They were not passive, submissive clients but positive enthusiasts, with a common agenda. |
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I handed the boots, my letter and the reply to a pleasant, submissive sales assistant who went to fetch a manager. |
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He is likely quite uncomfortable about the prospects of appearing weak, submissive or passive. |
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Girls are sweet, well-behaved, self-sacrificing, passive, submissive, overemotional, and, above all, attractive. |
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A ballsy swashbuckler on camera, who did all her own stunts, O'Hara was totally submissive in her personal life. |
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Where she is gawky, submissive and quietly passionate in the new role life has found for her to play, Spader is pop-eyed and purse-lipped. |
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Some people like to dominate, some are submissive, some can handle possessiveness, for others it would drive them crazy. |
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Yet judging by the youths' submissive behaviour the threat seemed credible. |
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At first she did fight back, but I eventually succeeded in breaking her down into my submissive wife, a bird trapped in a gilded cage. |
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We were supposed to become unthinking, obedient, silent and submissive so as to be governable, exploitable and harmless. |
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That's the thing with a lot of straight guys, they think that because we're gay we're submissive and all effeminate and we're going to back down. |
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The Huron word orenda, for example, is a complex word that is similar to the notion of prayer but is not quite as submissive as that. |
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This is the same type of behavior a submissive member of a wild dog pack would show to the alpha dog in that pack. |
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It is a negotiated relationship in which the submissive sets boundaries and a safeword to instantaneously stop the action is agreed on. |
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They seem to have all the makings of a weak, submissive government. |
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Many young women in the BDSM subculture find their way into a dominant role, whether coming from a submissive standpoint or not. |
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All of our best dogs were already on the lowest rung of the pack hierarchy when we got them because they were the litter runts or just submissive by nature. |
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Basically, I would be much more passive, submissive and altruistic. |
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They centre around the interpretations of the leadership and submissive and unquestioning acceptance of these is essential to be a member of good standing. |
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She seems banal and unreasonably submissive to her boorish husband. |
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We'll keep weeding out the troublesome ones, keep fattening and hobbling the submissive ones. |
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But patients are not the unquestioning, submissive breed they once were. |
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Girls were raised to marry early, to be submissive, to mother large families, and to find employment to support all of them. |
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But they could come up with a competitive candidate who would be neither the dominant Berlusconi nor the submissive Alfano. |
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I'm weary of his monotone droning as he reads yet another story of yet another hapless, submissive male being dominated by yet another psychotic nympho. |
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One of the main reasons I reject religion, especially submissive Eastern cults like Transcendental Meditation, is that the mind is not supposed to be peaceful! |
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They need the thrill of terror to make them shudderingly submissive. |
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The Russians in the room all clambered to their feet and stared at their shoes like submissive muzhiks, while the rest of us looked around at each other in bafflement. |
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Strong character scenes between the submissive husband and the increasingly unbalanced wife play effectively alongside the suspenseful kidnap and ransom sequences. |
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Caesar was declared dictator of Rome by the now submissive Senate. |
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Externally, former submissive states raided the empire and the vast border territories were irreversibly lost for subsequent centuries. |
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The baron stood afar off, or knelt in submissive, acknowledged, infelt inferiority. |
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Once oppression has been internalised, little force is needed to keep us submissive. |
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Plesiobionts differ from each other both in morphology and in behaviour, and at least one of the plesiobiotic pair is a submissive species. |
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For example someone who fantasises about being submissive may want to experience sexual pleasure without responsibility. |
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They do it because they want women to be submissive, second-class citizen. |
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Someone who fantasises about being submissive may really want to experience sexual pleasure without the responsibility. |
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For those of us who've had enough of whips, handcuffs and submissive heroines, here's hoping that Bridget is still 50 shades of scatty. |
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Far from the traditional model of a good wife, she is often unwilling to be submissive towards Adam. |
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Whisper sweet nothings Does this mean your wife wants to be submissive in bed? |
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The royal couple enjoyed periods of calm and affection, but Anne refused to play the submissive role expected of her. |
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No way could I pull off being a Gorean kajira. I wasn't nearly submissive enough. |
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The latter reflect d'Urfe's problematic notions of Neoplatonism by sanctioning in writing an oblational and submissive love, and not a mystical union of the Platonic kind. |
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Active submission occurs often as a form of greeting, and involves the submissive wolf approaching another in a low posture, and licking the other wolf's face. |
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Submissive peeing, on the other hand, IS related to anxiety. But submissive peeing is not marking. A submissive peer is generally a very submissive dog. |
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Courtship takes place in a series of behavioural interactions that include a variety of snout rubbing and submissive display that can take a long time. |
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In a hierarchy, individuals are either dominant or submissive. |
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The shufan, or 'cooked barbarians', were tame and submissive. |
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But she got up to go, and Domenico obeyed me too in mock meekness, making himself sib and coeval to Hortense, submissive to frowning elder brother, something incestuous in it. |
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Back downstairs Abigail had settled down to watch Angela's scene with her submissive, Meggie. Nice choice, since the Mistress was an expert with wax play. |
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