obsequious

• “In addition, there's a new book about Shyamalan, The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale and the making of this film, which is apparently an exercise in obsequious flattery.”

  Actions Speaking Loudly as Words

• “The waiters at the club were all white-jacketed middle-aged black men who could not be called obsequious but belonged culturally to another generation, one that knew how to be selectively deaf and to pretend that the clientele they served held them in high regard.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Glass Rainbow

• “I try to tread a not-middle line between following the pure dictates of cold logic which would involve going to the gym as well as not being in any political party and the kind of obsequious loyalty and jam-tomorrow logic you see in members of the other two parties.”

  What did Evan Harris actually say?

• “I am impressed, you appear to have used the word "obsequious" properly even if what you were saying was false.”

  "He's a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind I would say he's a liar, but it's a habit he ought to drop."

• “After the kind of obsequious, sycophantic verbal fellatio that has been given some of the other candidates, who have said far stupider things, it would be more helpful to wipe the slate clean and just have a new set of interviewers, if we want to seriously rate political candidates.”

  Sarah Palin will be answering questions later.

• “The word obsequious springs to mind.”

  NBC wimped out over "pimped out."

• “Mr. Boede is distributing leaflets urging Potsdam's "subjects" to put on their finery, paint obsequious banners, and practice their bows.”

  The Wall Street Journal: No Titles, No Subjects, No Problem: Germans Join Royal Wedding Craze

• “In an attempt to "allay U.S. fears" over Vázquez's rambling press conference with Chávez, obsequious Uruguay Minister of Industry and Energy Jorge Lepra called upon Nealon for a one-to-one meeting.”

  The Huffington Post: Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Fissures Over South American Left Integration

• “In an attempt to "allay U.S. fears" over Vázquez's rambling press conference with Chávez, obsequious Uruguay Minister of Industry and Energy Jorge Lepra called upon Nealon for a one-to-one meeting.”

  The Huffington Post: Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Fissures Over South American Left Integration

• “With a few notable exceptions, their only posture toward Wall Street has been that of an obsequious valet who serves an imperious master.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: Could Wall Street Ever Face a "Murdoch Moment"? Could Its Empire Ever Fall?

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