By selling off heirlooms and ingratiating themselves with prison staff and exiled aristocrats the twins eventually secure his release. |
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Bribes become a feature of everyday life for ordinary people, a means of ingratiating as much as an exchange at the margin. |
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North Carolina's John Edwards boasts the Southern pedigree and ingratiating charm to match the president in the likeability sweepstakes. |
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There's nothing unusual about reporters ingratiating themselves to a source. |
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It is not surprising that such high-ranking courtiers ended up on the receiving end, rounding out their incomes with ingratiating tips and gifts. |
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Of course, Ballard has always disdained or been uninterested in ingratiating himself with any kind of literary social scene. |
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There can be few more humiliating sights than a British prime minister ingratiating himself with his French and German counterparts. |
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What the 131st lacks in intelligent dazzle, it makes up for in bulk and an ingratiating earnest of good will. |
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For their part, the boys, baby-faced and natty but incipiently loutish, are hardly ingratiating. |
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He was pleasant enough, forty-ish, with a soft voice, slightly ingratiating smile, an expression that suggested he expected life to hurt him. |
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Kailash soon appears, threatening Madhu while ingratiating himself with Dimanji and flirting with the family's mischievous maid. |
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So, you know, sometimes these men are very ingratiating and very charming and very lovable, and nobody is all bad or all good. |
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He spent much of that time ingratiating himself with the affluent. |
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In reality, we were an unknown band who had actually come to this studio at this awful hour in hopes of ingratiating ourselves to the program director. |
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Well, if the emphasis is on ingratiating themselves, I don't agree with that, because I think it's now seen very much in their interest to cooperate with us. |
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He is outgoing, with the ingratiating manner of one destined for politics. |
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And that's an enormously ingratiating quality in any leader. |
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He gave an ingratiating smile, hoping to catch Peter's fancy. |
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Instead, with an ingratiating directness, he allows the audience to share a hardworking, yet playful, day in the lives of a group of Cuban peasants. |
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His sanctimony, his false humility, his ingratiating smile, his longing to cut a dash on the international stage are all very hard to endure. |
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Many bullies are skillful at covering their tracks and ingratiating themselves with their superiors. |
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Schubert originally intended the second movement to be an Adagio, but wrote instead an ingratiating Allegretto in simple ABA form. |
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He could be petty and mean-spirited to subordinates, ingratiating and sycophantic to bosses and celebrities. |
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Man gets divorced late in life and copes by ingratiating himself with unsuspecting Brooklynites. |
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It does not, of course, follow that an ingratiating interview request will be mean an ingratiating interview. |
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Though David was criticized for tossing softball or ingratiating questions, he, in fact, knew what he was doing. |
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His colours and figures were too decorative and ingratiating to satisfy the period's tough talk about heroic self-consciousness and mythic ambition. |
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You know, the all too familiar signs of smugness, ingratiating habits, or simply the false earnestness and self-satisfaction associated with a testosterone-powered toady. |
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The contestant's ingratiating blandishments are not a hit with everyone. |
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Wednesday's performances suggested that ballet was little but endlessly ingratiating acrobatics and endlessly acrobatic ingratiation. |
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They might have been the most ingratiating band in the world. |
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Cleverly, he found ways of ingratiating himself with all the important guests. |
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To avoid that fate, which means an eight-year bar from office, he resigned. Mr Magalhaes's career was based on ingratiating himself with, and then manipulating, whoever was in power. |
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The tenor Stephen Costello, costumed as a no-good, Rat Pack type in an ivory dinner jacket, brings slick charm and ingratiating vocalism to the role of the Duke. |
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There are the Korean elites with excessively ingratiating mentality towards America who make a great fuss about the danger of a possible breakup, in case Seoul does not submit to Washington's demands. |
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I would like him to perhaps enlarge briefly on the subject of the Liberal government's ingratiating control of everybody's lives and every little detail of our lives. |
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In color he is individual and ingratiating, rich and glowing without being sumptuous, and reticent, wearing it like a mellow bloom, when it is time to be subdued. |
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Insubordinate air-force officers would skip the indoctrination and congregate at the buffet, where an ingratiating KGB man would try to wheedle them back in. |
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It's the crown jewel of the Hanover's current Broadway season, and judging by Wednesday evening's momentously ingratiating performance, it should be. |
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