Only their jaws are moving, submissively, evenly, without joy or animation.
Not only must women lie submissively in stirrups; they frequently must also endure the abasing attitudes of their doctors -- 80% of whom are men.
Similarly, the symbolic figurehead of the reformist movement, former President Mohammad Khatami, called on Iranians to "Participate, though submissively, but with joy!".
California prisons’ photo ban leaves legacy of blurred identities */ The snapshots are old and discolored, capturing the faces of men behind bars in California’s vast penal system and those destined to enter it. Some are wide-eyed. Others cast hard stares. One inmate, a bony heroin addict dressed in baggy prison denim, stares submissively into the camera. Dating back as far as the 1980s, the photographs would be unremarkable except for this detail: They were ...
July 8, 2013 - Center for Investigative Reporting
Allama Iqbal in The News - International If any parliament in 1988, 1990, 1993, and 1996,Ahsan Iqbal said, "had allowed military the opportunity to bring in-house change of the leader as submissively as the present parliament did in cases of Jamali, Shujaat, and Shaukat, it would...
John Updike in Washington Post Thus Updike describes the minutiae of his early carnality: "the bluish inner sides of her arms, turned submissively uppermost, and the backs of her thighs, his fingers curled to lightly scratch the goosebumped skin with his nails."