The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today so beauty is something that changes with time.
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.