For which reason flatterers are in repute in both these: the demagogue in the democracy, for he is the proper flatterer of the people; among tyrants, he who will
servilely adapt himself to their humours; for this is the business of
"Yes, but I had only the credit of
servilely copying such sentences as I was ashamed to put my name to.
“Bold Dragoon,†flourishing a sheathed sword, that he was fond of saying his ancestors had carried in one of Cromwell’s victories, and crying, in an authoritative tone, to “clear the way for the court.†The order was obeyed promptly, though not
servilely, the members of the crowd nodding familiarly to the members of the procession as it passed.
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 Supreme Court Justice Enrique Fernando had publicly and
servilely held an umbrella over Imelda Romualdez Marcos's head.
For the Adams, publication was a way of asserting authorship and insinuating that anyone who worked in the same manner was
servilely copying their superior forms.
Even in the state's first constitutional convention, held in Monterey in 1849, one delegate denounced the tendency shown by some toward "
servilely" copying the constitutions of other states.
Katherina
servilely bends to the will of her new 'lord', 'king', and 'governor' (138), as she praises him for sacrifices he never made and risks he never took.
For three decades, Europe,
servilely imitating the OIC, has effectively created for itself a major problem that is eating away and destroying it.
