She, too, was playing a role, presenting herself in an apparently submissive posture that was in fact anything but.

It was at once both a fatherly and submissive posture.

Harold is in a somewhat submissive posture and seems to be in disgrace.

He couldn't quite get a look at the color since she had her head down in a very submissive posture that he found immediately alluring.

But you go into a submissive posture, do you?

No, I usually don't go into a submissive posture.

The man dropped to his knees at the sight of Nate's gun, hands on his head, in a clearly submissive posture.

She kept perfectly still, her head slightly bowed, a submissive posture.

Saturday had retreated to the rear of the bridge, compelled by his instincts into a submissive posture.

His submissive posture suggests he now represents a defeated enemy chief.