submissively Betydning & definition

Eksempler på submissively

• Unwilling to submit to confinement submissively, these young women in turn staged dramatic escapes or provocative strip shows.

• The poor however did not submissively exist in the background whilst the privileged aristocracy strutted confidently in the foreground.

• The food may be accepted submissively, accepted with impudence, or rejected.

• Some of us ventured to say that, however submissively and humbly we accepted their proposals, this would happen.

• She did not stand submissively by, nor did her women and children.

• I bow submissively in anticipation.

• Those workers accepted the situation submissively.

• Such a view, she claims, classifies women and the female body predominantly as victims, living passively/submissively within patriarchal society, a tabula rasa awaiting inscription.