Del Toro said that it would be boring to make a slavish adaptation.

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But Dylan William of King's College London says slavish worship at the altars of testing and targets could be damaging.

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We should be solid but not slavish in our friendship with America.

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And unthinking rebelliousness can be just as inauthentic as slavish conformity.

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He spoke fluent English, and commanded slavish devotion from his agents.

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The company says the hand-built Ghost passes through no less than 60 pairs of hands and their slavish attention to detail is nothing short of amazing.

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If one isn't providing the overwhelming temptation to spit out slavish rehash after slavish rehash, the other often walks hand-in-hand with the philosophy that self-editing is for the artistically compromised.

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But what Obama's slavish devotion to his radical world view shows is that Netanyahu's decision to seek an accommodation is not simply an exercise in futility, it is a recipe for disaster.

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For critics of John Howard, he became a totem for much of what was wrong with the Bush administration's war on terror, and what they complained was the then prime minister's slavish support for the US president.

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To be a fan of an MLS team or the league itself is be simultaneously appreciative of how much it has grown since it was started in 1996 while also being frustrated by what seems to be an illogical, slavish insistence to define an American version of soccer.

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