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Example sentences for: submissive

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Two days earlier, Hugo Young, chief columnist of the liberal Guardian and normally very sympathetic to Blair, had written: "What is unfolding between London and Washington shows the same submissive respect by the lesser for the stronger partner as prevailed in the Reagan-Thatcher years, highlighted now by Britain's solitary, potentially catastrophic, part in a joint venture against Iraq."
Disney's animation studio rebounds from a series of disappointments ( Pocahontas , Hercules ) with a feature based on a Chinese legend about a cross-dressing female warrior, winning praise for featuring a proto-feminist heroine instead of its usual submissive maidens.
"We might tag her submissive or unliberated or what have you, but to my mind she has a grace and dignity all her own, bred by centuries of tradition.
Also, a column about "Slaves 'R' Us," a business that recruits submissive men to clean the apartments of dominant women.
The emperor flatly turned him down but thanked him for showing such “submissive loyalty in sending this tribute mission.”