| If we were a genuine republic, one of our leading businessmen would not have dared to obsequiously accept a knighthood from a British monarch. |
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| Just a little more than a year ago, the Senate obsequiously handed to the President the constitutional authority to declare war. |
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| A liveried waiter comes across, bows obsequiously, and asks George if he would care for the salmon. |
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| It reminds the narrator of his grandfather, an individual repressed by the system who went through his entire life obsequiously saying yes to all the men in power. |
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| As we proceeded, this scene was repeated again and again: Ahsin gave orders to O'Brien, who obsequiously wrote them down. |
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| The Egyptian media, which obsequiously says what it thinks the regime wants to hear, has been unusually hostile to Hamas, too. |
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| He seems to have fallen off the wagon at one point, and critical observers felt that he obsequiously over-toasted. |
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| The next thing, a penguin will walk in here, tip his top hat, and abase himself while he mutters obsequiously in penguinese. |
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| Where Mrs. Wire has a tendency to alienate her lodgers, Nursie heals their wounds — not obsequiously but out of a true understanding of how hurt feels. |
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| We've all bewailed the return to obsequiously hyperbolic commentary and a fervour redolent of Girl Scouts promising to honour their Queen and country. |
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