Thus approached, I would smile benignly and direct the appropriately obsequious customer toward the objects of his desiring. |
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Diamond has a gentle, self-effacing style about him without seeming obsequious. |
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Randy is Mr. Lahey's obsequious sidekick, lover and Sunnyvale's assistant trailer park supervisor. |
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Submission here means to be subsequent or responsive, not necessarily obsequious or subservient. |
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It wasn't so much obsequious as deferent, something that was most unusual in a politician. |
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And in Congress politics, fulsome flattery and obsequious loyalty play a vital role. |
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Paris himself turns out to be an obsequious toady in Domitian's heady presence. |
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As is always the case in France, I am not sure if she reads my apology as sufficiently humble or merely obsequious. |
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They're surrounded by heavy linen, sparkling crystal, gleaming silver, obsequious waiters, and an embarrassment of champagne glasses. |
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They've filled their almost-claustrophobic room with towering flower bouquets and perhaps a few too many obsequious waiters. |
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They are curiously obsequious, seeming to promise presidents and prime ministers a favourable verdict in return for a few invitations, a few decorations. |
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In fact, the figure lounging in front of me seems in some respects more human than fox, effortlessly graceful, endearing without being obsequious, and persistently humorous. |
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Self-respect did not prevent them from asking the prime minister obsequious questions which had been written for them by Whips. |
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Her insatiable desire to be stroked, bolstered, flattered, was met by Burrell with the obsequious enthusiasm of a knight offering the chasteness of courtly love. |
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Still, for the last year the media has been treating the Abe regime with obsequious deference. |
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The old couple that owned it were nauseatingly obsequious, in stark contrast to the indifferent attitude people in the City had towards each other. |
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He was obedient to his Christchurch bosses, but not at all obsequious. |
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Everyone was desperately failing to be cool about the presence of this A list Hollywood actor, but the first few questions were obsequious and embarrassing. |
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Like spoiled children, they can demand, stamp their feet, refuse to vote, be fickle and whimsical, expecting MPs to act as obsequious valets, while distrusting them all along. |
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Bent upon repairing her first unlucky speech by the most obsequious civility and unoffendable good-humour, she began with a benignant smile, though her blood was running cold all the while. |
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to take the floor after my colleague's obsequious remarks in which he blames everything on the public education system. |
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As far as the obsequious remarks of the hon. member are concerned, I cannot wait to hear more. |
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In politics, Landon Carter tried to find a middle path between obsequious loyalism and radical resistance. |
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An elaborate court ceremonial developed, and obsequious flattery became the order of the day. |
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No one was expecting to see the Leader of the Opposition bend at the waist, Japanese-style, like some obsequious head waiter, let alone full genuflection. |
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Add in an obsequious mainstream media, and it is rather remarkable that so many Barisan Nasional campaigners still felt the need to resort to blatant vote-buying. All of this gives rise to two dangers. |
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It remains open, at eye level, and is neither arrogant nor obsequious. |
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Art is a pure expression of self, and therefore it is anarchy: it can not be obsequious nor be used to increase anyone's power, it is not true or false. |
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He is a pompous and obsequious clergyman, who expects each of the Bennet girls to wish to marry him due to his inheritance. |
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Bass baritone Thomas Goerz was animated arid always humorous as the alternately obsequious and self-aggrandizing Pooh-Bah, the jack of all portfolios. |
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