Howard's case is unusual, both for the slavishness with which he has followed Bush's lead and for the comprehensiveness of his defeat. |
It's a slavishness to a new orthodoxy and it's not actually paying the results that we've been promised. |
If that is an absence of slavishness, the special relationship could certainly use more of it. |
On other days, Hong Kong's western chic, or yang qi, was derided as slavishness to foreign devils, or yang gui zi. |
The slavishness of this translation has many parallels in other cultures. |
Faithful to the style of the original, but not to the point of slavishness, Davis's effort is transparent — the reader never senses her presence. |