Sentences with phrase «obsequious as»

And the turbocharger is as obsequious as a courtier.

His commentary for I Know What You Did Last Summer proper reunites him with editor Steve Mirkovich, the latter a bit too obsequious as he pumps Gillespie for information (after all, Mirkovich had a job on the film, too), but the two manage to avoid narrating the movie for its duration, always a blessed miracle in itself.

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Obsequious and self - effacing to superiors («I have so many papers I'm working on»), SciZ is rude, verbally abusive, and calculating with subordinates (including sanitation and support staff, as well as postdocs like me).

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

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.

Though Judi Dench was compulsively watchable, Ali Fazal reminded me of Victor Banerjee as Dr Aziz in A Passage to India: cloying and irritating and obsequious but ultimately winning (it was just their roles and not a critique of their acting skill set).

Given his obsequious nature, it's easy to understand why the filmmakers chose him to replace Brendan Fraser, whose famously nerdy need to please comes across as a central aspect to his Canadian heritage.