| Exclamation marks suggest a certain unflattering ingratiation, especially in letters written to strangers. |
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| It was the pursuit of total ingratiation with the media and it sort of bothered me a bit. |
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| The friend, in an awkward attempt at ingratiation, plays for her a tape of him amateurishly playing the drums with his band. |
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| His greasy ingratiation irked the Watchkeeper and he clenched his hands to hide the claws that slipped from his fingertips. |
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| Wednesday's performances suggested that ballet was little but endlessly ingratiating acrobatics and endlessly acrobatic ingratiation. |
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| I suspect everyone ends up sounding like George Galloway in his ingratiation of Saddam Hussein. |
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| Successful self-promotion is a great deal more difficult to achieve than ingratiation. |
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| Judiciously used, ingratiation can facilitate interpersonal relationships and increase harmony within the organisation or departmental unit. |
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| Blair never made the mistake of underestimating Brooks, and his own considerable powers of ingratiation were exercised on her. |
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| By generating feelings of goodwill, ingratiation can counter tendencies to stigmatise and devalue other people. |
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| Recycling is useful both as incantation and as ingratiation. |
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| Personality change for the sake of ingratiation may be a form of social glue that builds cohesive work groups and ensures cooperation. |
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| It isn't subtle, but through ingratiation and obstinance she ends up seeing a lot. |
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| What angers me most at work is when a person who has obviously mastered the art of ingratiation. |
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| But clearly at this rate of ingratiation there must be a good chance of at least being made a cardinal. |
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| But the rest of the guests were a ghasty bunch and poor Mary's pathetic attempts at ingratiation ended in humiliation. |
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| From the start, they demonstrate the peculiar mixture of peremptoriness and ingratiation that would characterize his relationships throughout his life. |
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| Handel's extraordinary melodic ingratiation pervaded the four movements and the musicians were absolutely solid, sure-footed in trading, enfolding, developing his themes. |
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| Perhaps that is the fate of all such guides, doomed to sail between the Scylla of hectoring nationalism and the Charybdis of milquetoasty ingratiation. |
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| Amidst the snow-capped peaks in this semi-remote canton, the world's elites indulge in intense networking, customer ingratiation, and platitudinizing with one's peers. |
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