servilely

• “People value Huffington and rightly so, in my opinion, because it emerged at the time when the press had failed, been overtaken by commercial goals, and was servilely playing tag-along to the Bush government, and the Iraq war.”

  The Huffington Post: Alison Rose Levy: Chris Hedges, Huffington, and the Taste of Truth

• “Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched.”

  Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 21, 2006

• “Joe should have just servilely agreed with Obama; then he'd still have his normal life.”

  Little More Light Today

• “So saying, and quite indifferent to the astonishment his presence occasioned, he crept in, shut the door, kissed his greasy glove as servilely as if it were the dust, and made a most abject bow.”

  The Old Curiosity Shop

• “And since the presidential election was in December, the CNE servilely decided that nothing should cloud the presidential election and thus nobody would be allowed to present a petition before sometime in 2007, AFTER the CNE finally got around to set up rules that it should have set BEFORE the 2004 Recall Election.”

  Recall Election in Venezuela: from democracy beacon to autocratic ridicule

• “ We must not servilely accept gratuities for doing our duty.”

  Archive 2006-11-01

• “On the other hand, the cunning, crafty man thinks to gain all his ends by the suaviter in modo only; HE BECOMES ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN; he seems to have no opinion of his own, and servilely adopts the present opinion of the present person; he insinuates himself only into the esteem of fools, but is soon detected, and surely despised by everybody else.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “Copy him, then, not servilely, but as some of the greatest masters of painting have copied others; insomuch that their copies have been equal to the originals, both as to beauty and freedom.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “I copied the best masters, at first servilely, afterward more freely, and at last I joined habit and invention.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “He attends even to their air, dress, and motions, and imitates them, liberally, and not servilely; he copies, but does not mimic.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

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