| But in the intervening years, the State Department's refusal to press for reform in that country turned into humiliating obsequiousness. |
| Most of the time, however, he has no personal attitude on show beyond sheer bootlicking obsequiousness. |
| Nothing about his countrymen enraged him more than obsequiousness toward the British. |
| His debating opponent submerged Motahari's heresies in a wave of obsequiousness. |
| But the prime minister obsequiousness to him is prompting revolt and disgust in the ranks of his Labor Party against him. |
| Fischer's obsequiousness is not simply, or even primarily, a reflection of his subjective cowardice and political spinelessness. |
