How To Use Obsequiousness In A Sentence
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But the prime minister obsequiousness to him is prompting revolt and disgust in the ranks of his Labor Party against him.
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Fischer's obsequiousness is not simply, or even primarily, a reflection of his subjective cowardice and political spinelessness.
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The stark statement of the facts was followed by a panegyric which was the soul and model of obsequiousness.
THE SCAR
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The prime minister had destroyed the industrial base with fanatical cruelty, with an impunity largely supplied by the obsequiousness and weakness of the opposition.
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My approach to the City is not one of hostility, or of obsequiousness.
It really is just ‘business as usual’… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
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But in the intervening years, the State Department's refusal to press for reform in that country turned into humiliating obsequiousness.
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Didas 'instructions were for the time being to insinuate himself by every kind of obsequiousness into Demetrius' confidence and intimacy so as to be able to draw out all his secrets and ascertain his hidden sentiments.
The History of Rome, Vol. VI
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I told him to get lost and leave me alone and his tone quickly changed from obsequiousness to outright anger.
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Obsequiousness tends to refer to a desire to ingratiate oneself, and to win benefits through flattery.
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Which being the case, no wonder if error, oiled with obsequiousness, (which generally gains friends, though deserves none worth having,) has often the advantage of truth, and thereby slides more easily and intimately into the fool's bosom, than the uncourtliness of truth will suffer it to do.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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Here’s how brazen Mr. Rumsfeld was when he invoked Hitler’s appeasers to score his cheap points: Since Hitler was photographed warmly shaking Neville Chamberlain’s hand at Munich in 1938, the only image that comes close to matching it in epochal obsequiousness is the December 1983 photograph of Mr. Rumsfeld himself in Baghdad, warmly shaking the hand of Saddam Hussein in full fascist regalia.
September 2006
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In the past, Percy served as comic relief, a stuffed shirt whose obsequiousness toward authority figures was matched only by his imperiousness toward younger students.
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This hagiographical obsequiousness suggests that we are to be conducted through a treasury of sacred relics.
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
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Finally, Noam Chomsky gives his take on Obama's pro-Israel hawk appointments and his unprecedented "obsequiousness" to AIPAC.
Radio.indymedia.org
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Although unwashed, "unwiped," and otherwise undistinguishable from others of the same age about the place, they are gravely introduced as khan this, that, and the other respectively; and while they remain in the room, obsequiousness marks the deportment of everybody present except their father, and he regards them with paternal pride.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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Without an exception these hangers-on are a shallow, mean-spirited bunch of bourgeoise no-counts, who mistake philosophical declamation for conversation and obsequiousness for love.
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I find his obsequiousness repellent
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This hagiographical obsequiousness suggests that we are to be conducted through a treasury of sacred relics.
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
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He explains that "it is sometimes difficult for the reader less obsessed with [Hartman's] texts than the author is even to derive a clear sense of what Hartman was talking about," and he proceeds to worry that an essay caught between "obsequiousness" and "assault" against one's teacher "begins to suggest unpleasant things about life in graduate school.
'At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'
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The stark statement of the facts was followed by a panegyric which was the soul and model of obsequiousness.
THE SCAR
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He says the last Labour government "made mistakes", but it wasn't mistakes it made by adopting its ideological obsequiousness to big business.
Letters: Ed Miliband listened – what did he learn?
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I think of, you have a lot of night to come below fair door the government official of beg, their obsequiousness artful tongue should compare money baldicoot brillant and decuple.
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Public support can urge Republicans to repel policy and political risks of inaction and obsequiousness to Tea Party agendas.
Bradford Kane: Lessons From the Debt Ceiling Crisis: Bipartisanship in the Tea Party Era
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Make note of the incoherent speech, grammatical errors, cutesy nicknames with reporters, and crankiness from the president and obsequiousness from the press.
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Great player that he is, the obsequiousness towards Tendulkar can grate.
India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay
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And—being human—we responded in kind, seeking out dogs for their obsequiousness and unconditional devotion.
From the Cave to the Kennel
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An uncatholic national feeling had been aroused some years before in New York, assuming under Bishop Connolly all obsequiousness to that prelate and zeal for his honor; under Bishop Du
Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
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The stark statement of the facts was followed by a panegyric which was the soul and model of obsequiousness.
THE SCAR
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For a certain portion of the passengers had the unmistakable excursion air: the half-jocular manner towards each other, the local facetiousness which is so offensive to uninterested fellow-travelers, that male obsequiousness about ladies 'shawls and reticules, the clumsy pretense of gallantry with each other's wives, the anxiety about the company luggage and the company health.
Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing