2 Sentences With "ingratiations"

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He could convey the swagger and haplessness of a two-bit crook, the authority of a hardened homicide detective, the unctuous ingratiations of a yes man — as well as a sense of vulnerability, desperation and weakness. from The New York Times
It was said that Li was honest and frugal, and after he became chancellor, he, with some success, tried to curb the tendency for officials to seek promotions by bribes or ingratiations. There was a proposal at the time to end the system of using certain public fields' produce as salary for the officials and instead using the fields to produce for the treasury; Li pointed out that doing so would be merely causing an additional layer of waste, as ultimately the officials' salaries would have to come from the treasury, and the proposal was not carried out. Meanwhile, the official Wu Jing () had been in charge of editing the imperial history, but before his work was complete, he took a leave because of his mother's death. After Wu's period of mourning was complete, he requested to continue the work and was permitted to do so at the Jixian Institute ().