Word: slavishly
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...think of a devoted Nietzschean suddenly confronted by a sweet little girl holding a lollipop and an affectionate puppydog. For an unguarded moment he is charmed; but the girl goes her way, and the play-wright reflects that perhaps the candy only reveals her materialism, and the dog her slavish dependence on pets. He becomes hopelessly despairing, then immeasurably compassionate. He writes a poem...
...centuries, taste turned more and more to fixed wall decoration-marble, gilded woodwork, monumental paintings -and tapestry began to take a second place. Ironically, just as great technical advances were being made in the art of weaving, the spirit of originality began to disappear, and tapestry largely became a slavish imitation of paintings-often complete with their own ornate "gold" frames woven around their borders. With the exception of a few independent weavers working on their own, little worth while was loomed until recent years...
...formerly called Stalin), he planted two small trees, after which he handed the shovel to startled Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. "I have helped build Communism," joked Nikita. "Now you've got to work. This isn't like writing notes." Khrushchev was visiting Moscow's earliest, most slavish European satellite because of economic and political troubles...
...trick for the U.S. is thus to meet the critical shortage of scientists and technicians, as Kennedy says, while 1) shunning any slavish imitation of Russian goals, and 2) strengthening the U.S. lead in the liberal arts that produce broadly creative...
...with the profound issues of guilt and redemption. To a steady procession of writers-all of them willing to be thought deep-the formula has seemed good enough to copy. The latest imitator, and one of the ablest, is Anthony Bloomfield, novelist and BBC scriptwriter. His imitation is not slavish, since his weighing-up produces rather different totals than the master's. But setting, characters, mood and action are all attentively derivative...