Sentences with phrase «sycophancy in»

Yesterday Bercow (a figure that vacillates between smouldering peevishness and gaseous sycophancy in these his troubled days) was back.

What euphoria, what might even call hysteria, what clamorous sycophancy in the media both in print and on television, as Manchester City edged their way so laboriously and belatedly to the victory which gave them their first top League title since 1968.

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But they are obscured by China's PR campaign drive — the 2008 Olympics were a virtuoso exercise in propaganda — and blurred by the sycophancy of other nations and institutions.

All the above issue has nothing in common but sycophancy, hypocrisy, and the ego worship of Akufo - Addo.

The hypocrisy of the politicians and sycophancy of their supporters must cease in this country», he charged.

A short featurette goes the cute route by treating the monkey like a starving actor «discovered» in a variety of odd jobs but is otherwise the same old sycophancy.

Looking smashing in vaguely inappropriate business suits and possessing a supernatural balance of prescience, sycophancy, and Machiavellian ambition, Kris begins to climb the corporate ladder when unfortunate accidents start claiming first Peter's rivals, then her own.

And now, when he was sixty - five years of age, the very political class he'd so attacked and hounded and scorned from his redoubt, mocked without consideration or respect for the ties of family or friendship (and he'd lost quite a few friends as a result; even a few relatives no longer spoke to him), that very same political class had decided to put the gigantic Colombian machinery of sycophancy into action to create a public homage that, for the first time in history, and perhaps the last, would celebrate a cartoonist.

After a brief phase as a Conceptual artist, the British - born artist (he moved to New York in 1970) ran afoul of Art & Language who accused him of betraying Conceptual art through the «sycophancy» and «opportunism» of his early «70s writings for Artforum.

Civil society must remain vocal about its concerns over the direction that government is taking and the degree to which corruption and sycophancy have become embedded in all levels of government and society.