A cabinet minister nodded and chuckled obsequiously as the general spoke.
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In China, CCTV carries AMTV programming, which is considered obsequiously patriotic.
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"Of course, I will do everything," the judge handling the case said obsequiously.
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It is boringly self-congratulatory, obsequiously flattering both the audience and the filmmakers.
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Graham now obsequiously serves Trump like a house elf from the "Harry Potter" series.
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It is unfair to require servers to behave obsequiously in the hope of getting a fair wage.
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British prime ministers are obsequiously paranoid about maintaining what they see as the special relationship with America's presidents.
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Armies of estate agents, stockbrokers and accountants are obsequiously available to all-too-legally clean money for them.
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The only women they truly honor are white women who obsequiously condone or actively participate in the oppression.
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West of Nash's obsequiously named Regent Street, London society made and obeyed the rules of a mini-Versailles.
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Just as Rick obsequiously said what Negan commanded him to speak in the other 85 minutes of the episode.
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"The most obsequiously pro-Trump right-wing news outlet in America really literally is paid Russian propaganda," she said.
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The press colluded with this secrecy in large ways and small, covering up illnesses and affairs, obsequiously deferring to government officials.
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Newt, whatever you think you're getting in return for obsequiously sliming an American hero, I guarantee you it's not worth it. Stop.
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Trump's second nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, notably declined to do anything of the sort, instead obsequiously praising Trump in a speech when he was nominated.
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Meek, obsequiously English and conservative (spelled both with a lower-case and upper-case C) Kate seems to be anything but rock and roll.
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That's why Republicans on the Hill who so obsequiously stand by him will eventually learn it wasn't worth it, just as Cohen warned them.
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But Graham is in an odd relationship with Trump in which he obsequiously praises him on some issues while trying to influence him on others.
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These elected officials in particular are not only obsequiously placating a man nursing a god complex, they are displaying a staggering lack of national fealty.
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The future waiting for me outside," A. whispered, and immediately added obsequiously, "and how much I owe this institution, especially you, for bringing me to this moment.
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The night before getting sacked, Hubei's provincial party secretary, Jiang Chaoliang, presided over a meeting of officials, obsequiously citing Mr. Xi's "important speeches" as guidance for the region's responses.
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Since you can't always shop at the cute markets and eventually have to obsequiously make your back to the ones in aircraft hangars, a few tactics can shorten the visit.
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The Fed takeover of the economy has turned Main Street into Mean Street; it has gelded Silicon Valley, reducing our most creative entrepreneurs to climate cranks obsequiously petitioning in Washington.
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Rick rifles through Spencer's house until he finds a stockpile of food, booze and the two guns, which he obsequiously gives to Negan so that Negan doesn't kill Olivia, the inventory girl.
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Before you leave, a customs official in a dark suit will take your ticket and passport and then return 10 minutes later, smiling obsequiously and extending your stamped documents with both hands.
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Then, in the psychotherapy sessions afterward, the honest experiences happened to the black characters while the white characters were the ones obsequiously performing their whiteness and their assumed roles as the good partners.
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Mr Trump's decision to sit down with Mr Kim deserves some credit (though it is hardly worthy of the Nobel peace prize for which, he has indiscreetly boasted, Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has obsequiously nominated him).
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Feige's bulletproof credibility with the larger Marvel fandom — witness any of Marvel Studios' panels at San Diego Comic-Con, and you'll see what I mean — has also allowed the MCU to draw from the limitless library of Marvel comic books without ever feeling obsequiously bound to them, and without unduly inflaming Marvel comic book true believers.
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To this dialogue Riderhood had attended in silence, and he now obsequiously bespake the Captain.
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Frattolillo claims, "Kita was particularly critical of the submissive attitude of certain intellectuals towards the system who obsequiously accepted the acquisition of new theories and new forms of knowledge from the west, translated and transplanted in Japan." He therefore wishes to plainly critique the faults of his society and propose a socialist alternative.
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The suicidal man in Rough for Theatre II is named Croker. is a doddery old man, testy and maudlin. He is never referred to by name in the play itself but he is well named. Joe addresses to him – albeit somewhat obsequiously – as, "My Lord," since, despite his apparent frailty, he has plainly been someone used to wielding authority.
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During a lengthy exchange between Don Checco and Bartolaccio who comes to take his dinner order, Bartolaccio becomes convinced that Don Checco is really Count de Ridolfi. The count is known to travel around his dominion in disguise to observe his subjects. Since Bartolaccio also owes money to the count, he treats his guest obsequiously. Don Checco allows Bartolaccio to believe he is the count, while Roberto (the real count) looks on with bemusement at this turn of events.
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"Bart's Girlfriend" was written by Jonathan Collier and directed by Susie Dietter. David Mirkin, who was show runner at the time, originally had the idea of Bart having a girlfriend that was more evil than he was. Mirkin gave the idea to Collier to write it with the help of the show's executive producer James L. Brooks. Collier said later that he thought it was a case of Brooks coming up with good ideas and him "giggling obsequiously".
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During the winter of that year, the Temple is visited by a drunk American soldier and his pregnant Japanese girlfriend. He pushes his girlfriend down into the snow, and orders Mizoguchi to trample her stomach, giving him two cartons of cigarettes in exchange for doing so. Mizoguchi goes indoors and obsequiously presents the cartons to the Superior, who is having his head shaved by the deacon. Father Dosen thanks him, and tells him he has been chosen for the scholarship to Otani University.
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The greatest influence on Elwes' life was his miserly uncle, Sir Hervey Elwes, 2nd Baronet, of Stoke College and MP for Sudbury, whom Elwes obsequiously imitated to gain favour. Sir Hervey prided himself on only spending little more than £110 on himself per annum. The two of them would spend the evening railing against other people's extravagances while they shared a single glass of wine. In 1751, in order to inherit his uncle's estate, he changed his name from Meggot to Elwes.
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He is revealed to be Mal's absentee father and reluctantly gives her the ember, warning her that it mustn't get wet and will not exhibit its full powers for her. While leaving the Isle, Mal and the others are stopped by Uma, Gil, and Harry, who take the Ember. They agree to help after Mal agrees to release all the children from the Isle. In Auradon, Audrey attacks Jane's birthday party with a sleeping curse; Chad obsequiously aligns himself with Audrey, while Jane escapes into the Enchanted Lake.
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Don and Roger go see Pete, and Roger, putting on a show, angrily tells Pete that he was fired, that he and Bert wanted him fired, but Don fought for Pete to have a second chance and Pete owes Don a great debt. A grateful Pete obsequiously thanks Don. That night, Pete and Trudy begin moving into their new apartment. When a new neighbor says how impressed she is by all that Trudy has been telling her about Pete's Knickerbocker connections, Pete suspects the true reason for his remaining at Sterling Cooper, and wanders away to stare dejectedly out the window at the New York City skyline.
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The term "Aunt Jemima" is sometimes used colloquially as a female version of the derogatory epithet "Uncle Tom" or "Rastus". In this context, the slang term "Aunt Jemima" falls within the "mammy archetype" and refers to a friendly black woman who is perceived as obsequiously servile or acting in, or protective of, the interests of whites. Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, Cassell, March 1999, , p. 36. John Sylvester of WTDY-AM drew criticism after calling Condoleezza Rice an “Aunt Jemima” and Colin Powell an “Uncle Tom”, referring to remarks by singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte about their subservience in the George W. Bush administration.
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112) Tyagi sought also to inculcate independence in others : He was critical of the tendency among political workers obsequiously to touch their leaders' feet and lashed out also at some senior bureaucrats who, he observed, had started touching ministers' feet. (Touching of Leaders' Feet : Tyagi Deplores Tendency, The Tribune, Ambala, 26 June 1959) At the 1957 session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), Tyagi suggested abandoning the practice of the Congress President nominating all the members of the Congress Working Committee. Though his suggestion that 10 out of the 21 Working Committee members ought to be elected was not accepted, Jawaharlal Nehru agreed with Tyagi that the same members ought not to be re-nominated year after year.
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In the story "Thợ làm móng tay" ["The Manicurist"], fine descriptive passages are perverted by a heavy- handed political subtext. Its bias can be traced to the war, in which both North and South had demonized the other: :Two cousins, separated for 21 years by the civil war, met again when the narrator, a member of the victorious army, arrived in Saigon in 1975. She found Sang, once "a fit, alert child, with a ruddy complexion", who had vowed to take revenge on the French for killing his father, turned into a pale, listless man obsequiously painting women's toe nails. Sang lived with a busty wife in "a sort of hovel" next to an open sewer, where they bickered endlessly.
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The emperor further wanted back his written profession of faith, which Euphemius refused to give up, so Anastasius assembled the bishops who were in the capital and preferred charges against their patriarch, whom they obsequiously excommunicated and deposed (496). The people loyally refused to surrender him, but inevitably yielded to the emperor. Meanwhile, Euphemius, fearing for his life, sought sanctuary in the baptistery, and refused to go out until Macedonius II had promised on the word of the emperor that no violence should be done to him when they conducted him to exile. With a proper feeling of respect for the dignity of his fallen predecessor, Macedonius made the attendant deacon take off the newly-given pallium and clothed himself in the dress of a simple presbyter, "not daring to wear" his insignia before their canonical owner.
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