| 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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| 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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| His debating opponent submerged Motahari's heresies in a wave of obsequiousness. |
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| Nothing about his countrymen enraged him more than obsequiousness toward the British. |
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| But there was more to this obsequiousness than the weakness of one officer. |
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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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| Most of the time, however, he has no personal attitude on show beyond sheer bootlicking obsequiousness. |
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| As Britons lost their patient obsequiousness, Mr Routh's pranks played less well. |
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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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| 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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| No greater obsequiousness and venal sycophancy in respect of the establishment has ever before been displayed in the EU by publicly-paid journalists. |
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| In the partisan press, where obsequiousness is the least of ourtesies, one must look out for the false notes in the panegyrics to understand that, within the clan of conservative Iranians, the knives are drawn. |
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| Obsequiousness tends to refer to a desire to ingratiate oneself, and to win benefits through flattery. |
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