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And Godard’s camera follows him, impulsively, alertly, tenderly, as if seeking to film with a gaze akin to Roxy’s—not blank or uncomprehending but endowed with a boundless, self-subordinating sympathy.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2014

Hull House had become a bastion of progressive thought inhabited by strong-willed young women, “interspersed,” as one visitor put it, “with earnest-faced, self-subordinating and mild-mannered men who slide from room to room apologetically.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

For though his intellect was in some respects almost beyond compare, it was rather by his self-subordinating contemplation that he was kept at peace.

From Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern by Picton, J. Allanson

Now there is abundant evidence to show that these particular virtues which belong to a self-subordinating life are those which have suffered most in the changes and new adjustments of modern society.

From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)