How to pronounce “slavi” in English

And there are people slaving away at it who get under-recognized compared with some of the rabble-rousers.

there were not many Slavic language speakers in the military at the time.

There's that Slavic sound that's totally unmistakable.

But when we're slaving behind the stove for 16 hour days, let's make ourselves happy here.

see us slaving away at our manuscript about the pure transcendence of nature while munching on somebody else's doughnut.

People of Slavic heritage.

And because I had been a Slavic language speaker while we were preparing to deploy in '95, right around the time that

You don't-- But to do a slavish imitation doesn't serve anyone, really.

to see these poor farmers slaving and getting yields which are not very high.

And after nine years of slaving away in this garret, in 1755, he came out with the dictionary.

this throw a lifestyle and stop slaving in the kitchen doing all these dishes

that idea if you're gonna be slaving sure a cane you know anyway but I do think there was a certain amount of the

The myth of the rusalka is a Polish and Slavic myth about a water spirit.

We're gonna spread the Aryan northern master race throughout Europe and into the traditional Slavic areas.

"Never Let Me Go", very almost slavish adaptation of the book.

Well, if you are so slavish to that level of accuracy, you would have had to tell this film and you'd have to sit in a theater for 13 years

To work with languages that have also very rich case system like Russian and other Slavic languages, for instance.

I've tried to look it up in the Ukrainian language, the Slavic language, the Russian language.

You know? It's very much its own theatrical event as opposed to any sort of slavish recreation of-- Exact recreation.

He's really big on just capturing what feels right, rather than slaving away to get it perfect and get the perfect take.

And that was hard for me to swallow, because I spent so much time slaving over lyrics.

They like to get out of the city and get back to kind of their sort of Slavic roots.

Try picture getting angry at Einstein devouring a doughnut brought to him by his assistant while he sat slaving on the theory of relativity.

Modernist cooking is cooking to make stuff taste great without regard to feeling you have to slavishly follow tradition.

project, my baby, that I had been slaving over was wrapped up in this bow that I, to be honest, was embarrassed by. And I didn't know what to do so I was ready to give up.

to waves, right? It's not a slavish translation of the real world. It's not a photograph; it's a reinterpretation that allows us to parse it and understand it as information

when my people woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of Seagulls slaving into their house and slamming

So, I mean, in real life, from what I saw of Legasov, he-- you know, he had that kind of Slavic, Soviet swagger about him.

And then working with Pete on the production design side of things, it was clear that Pete's not going to make a slavishly realistic version of New York.

But the decision to have him hairless, again, evolved out of this thinking about, well, we've just got to remove him from this slavishly realistic

But just suddenly you have a little perspective on a feeling that previously you might have been barely aware of, but you would have kind of slavishly

If you wanted to learn commercial arithmetic, you went to wherever in town had a copy of a manuscript, you copied it slavishly, and then you went home

and hand down their judgments on tablets of stone and with scores, and everybody would follow them slavishly.

And in this book he talks about, I read with fascination, of how a young man called Richard Slavin from the suburbs of Chicago, a little hippie--

the technological world. I mean, starting with Google really. I used to do a lot of my research by going to the Slavic section of the New York public library in

But I remember coming back from jury duty one day and finding out that not only did I not get this big promotion that I'd been slaving away to get, I'd been put on probation

a new wave of immigrants. And these were Italian, Greek, more of the Slavic immigrants, but still more Irish. And the reason why the strike came about--this followed closely to a strike

there. Where did they start doing hosiery and stuff? I think a lot of it went over to Slavic countries. That's where they sold all their equipment, was to these places in Russia

Umm, instead at this point, you know, Santa -- Santa and his crew aren't up there slaving away. They're actually in Hawaii at the Four Seasons,