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How to use the word submissive in a Sentence?

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I'm really lucky that Pornhub wanted to come on and produce this with me because originally I was shopping it around a very long time ago and things were very different, people are kind of scared to make a movie like this one when it comes to dominance and submissive( ness) between a male and a female and how this relationship can turn quite sour. – Bella Thorne	Found on CNN 4 years ago
He was totally compliant, submissive even still not enough to save him from the ferocious violence of the police department. – Jarrett Maupin	Found on CNN 4 years ago
You have to do what you can at home to be submissive in every way that you can and to elevate him. – Paige Patterson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I was now the property of my cousin. And no matter how resistant I was to him, his job was to get me into submission as quickly as possible… Then the sexual abuse came later as he started to force himself on me and force that my role as a wife was to be at his beck and call and to have his children. And when I became resistant to that, then the physical abuse started to take over. And I think the frustration of my cousin, his frustration of being judged for not being a good man because his wife wasn’t submissive and she wasn’t good — that all compounded the problem. i felt like something was going terribly wrong. – Elissa Wall	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
She was religious, but a very normal person as well. She was a very hardworking and submissive student. She never created any problem in the class. She was an obedient girl. I cannot even imagine how she could murder people. – Nisar Hussain	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
When I started, the Japanese military would often beat me because I wasn't submissive, there are no words to describe my suffering. Even now. I can't live without medicine. I'm always in pain. – Kim Bok-dong	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A good father knows how to wait and knows how to forgive from the bottom of his heart. Of course he can also discipline with a firm hand: he's not weak, submissive, sentimental, this father knows how to discipline without demeaning; he knows how to protect without restraint. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. – Joseph de Maistre	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer. – William O. Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. – Hermann Hesse	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice. – Leon Lessinger	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I'm really lucky that Pornhub wanted to come on and produce this with me because originally I was shopping it around a very long time ago and things were very different, people are kind of scared to make a movie like this one when it comes to dominance and submissive( ness) between a male and a female and how this relationship can turn quite sour.

– Bella Thorne

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He was totally compliant, submissive even still not enough to save him from the ferocious violence of the police department.

– Jarrett Maupin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You have to do what you can at home to be submissive in every way that you can and to elevate him.

– Paige Patterson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I was now the property of my cousin. And no matter how resistant I was to him, his job was to get me into submission as quickly as possible… Then the sexual abuse came later as he started to force himself on me and force that my role as a wife was to be at his beck and call and to have his children. And when I became resistant to that, then the physical abuse started to take over. And I think the frustration of my cousin, his frustration of being judged for not being a good man because his wife wasn’t submissive and she wasn’t good — that all compounded the problem. i felt like something was going terribly wrong.

– Elissa Wall

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

She was religious, but a very normal person as well. She was a very hardworking and submissive student. She never created any problem in the class. She was an obedient girl. I cannot even imagine how she could murder people.

– Nisar Hussain

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When I started, the Japanese military would often beat me because I wasn't submissive, there are no words to describe my suffering. Even now. I can't live without medicine. I'm always in pain.

– Kim Bok-dong

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A good father knows how to wait and knows how to forgive from the bottom of his heart. Of course he can also discipline with a firm hand: he's not weak, submissive, sentimental, this father knows how to discipline without demeaning; he knows how to protect without restraint.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

– Joseph de Maistre

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

– William O. Douglas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

– Hermann Hesse

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.

– Leon Lessinger

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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