Sentences with word «obsequious»

Any deity that demands obsequious submission and the willing cessation of rational inquiry isn't a very nice God!.

And the turbocharger is as obsequious as a courtier.

Although here I admit their impact may be minimal since most litigator - bullies become obsequious and demonstrate faux - respect for opposing counsel in open court where a judge is presiding.

@Nii 4 of the 10 Commandments are about pledging obsequious allegiance to the Abrahamic God.

Submission here means to be subsequent or responsive, not necessarily obsequious or subservient.

Often, in camp Ellis seemed to be just a phlegmatic, machinelike figure, but he was never obsequious to Ali.

Wherever he goes, between the relentless reporters and obsequious fans — and vice versa — he scarcely gets a moment to himself.

The Labour leader decided to give up on arguing about the NHS during his second bout of questions to congratulate (in that uniquely both sarcastic and frenziedly obsequious sense reserved only for PMQs) the PM for making history this week — «give him credit Mr Speaker though, he did make history this week, he's got his own word in the Oxford English Dictionary — «omnishambles»».

Full range of views about the Queen represented on #r4today this morning, from the merely flattering to the totally obsequious.

This success was driven by an alliance between the Reform Party and Preserve Rockland, a local group that has been active in recent elections opposing candidates deemed overly obsequious to the county's growing Hasidic population.

Her aides were consistently obsequious, she was entertaining donors to the Clinton Foundation, keeping tabs on possible political opponents and, oh, yes, receiving and passing on classified material on her private server.

This may sound unbearably obsequious, but you don't want to close a door into a potential employer by getting stroppy!

Be careful not to act obsequious — just friendly and helpful.

The wealth he has accumulated from his business, which appears to be professional suit - wearing, allows them to travel, hire a large and obsequious staff, and maintain a big sex room.

(In their last collaboration, This Is the End, Hill played himself as a hilariously obsequious villain.)

Occupying the other spots at the table are Strutt's much younger third wife (Amy Landecker from Transparent), dressed in exactly the right shade of garish aqua and too much mascara, and Grant's junior colleague Alex (Jay Duplass, also from Transparent) and his elegant wife (Chloe Sevigny), the last two obsequious social climbers dressed in matching shades of beige that also match the mansion's walls.

In the aforementioned framing device, Ben Whishaw, playing a far too soft and obsequious Melville, shows up at the inn of pickled, traumatized Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson, typecast) one dark and stormy night seeking raw material from the former Essex cabin boy for his upcoming novel about whalers.

Luke Evans (The Girl on the Train), as Gaston, is blustery enough to play the narcissistic villain, but it's his sidekick LeFou, played by Josh Gad (The Wedding Ringer), who is the real attraction of the duo, comically obsequious but not entirely a fool.

Or you could maybe stretch that to a two - and - a-half-hander, if you include Michael Sheen's oily and obsequious bar - tending android.

We're talking about near - obsequious touting of state authority.

I don't care much about hotels - in fact I often ask to be «down - graded» because I like cheap anonymous dives much better than the kind of place that has a dozen obsequious doormen in your face all the time.

He served it with obsequious ceremony.

- Obsequious Behaviour Is not Tolerated.

It was then that I noticed the slightly obsequious and almost robotized manner in which every staff member recited «our pleasure» after I said thank you.

But surely, this uneasy, obsequious truce can not last.

In his turn, Picasso would not have sustained a friendship over 50 years if he had found Bell obsequious.

A search engine that would try too hard at providing a definite answer to a legal problem would be as annoying as asking a simple question to C3P0 only to get a 500 - word answer in the most obsequious language.

The question I would pose is whether we are draining the passion out of the legal process and reducing lawyers to obsequious bureaucrats.

By some unknown obsequious factor?

Like most religions, they demanded blind obedience and obsequious submission from their followers.

Show willing whenever you are asked to do something, but don't be too obsequious; if you allow yourself to be pushed around too easily you won't win respect.

The latest revelation makes their obsequious refusal to protect the special counsel — on the grounds that Trump promised not to fire him — look feckless.

The servile person is concerned about himself or herself, to win the favor of others by being obsequious or humble; the servant is concerned about the health and welfare and well - being of others.

Not conciliatory or appeasing or obsequious, but calm and hopeful and courageous.

BTW Billy is an obsequious papal apologist troll.

They demanded blind obedience and obsequious submission from their followers.

Like religion, they demanded blind obedience and obsequious submission from their followers.