Sentences with word «sycophantic»

We're not sycophantic towards our leaders, or our presidents or our ministers or anything like that.

China is NOT going to let Trump treat them like sycophantic underlings in one of his gilded boardrooms.

If god requires sycophantic praise from his believers lest he cast them down to an eternity of pain and torment for not offering it to him, then your god sounds vain, evil, and vile.

• Britain has been challenged to withdraw its support for Saudi Arabia as chair of the UN human rights council panel as the closeness of the UK - Saudi relationship was dismissed as sycophantic by the Liberal Democrats and Labour called for an end to judicial cooperation with Riyadh.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill me with affection for sycophantic colleagues who pretend a boss's remark is witty; the projection of Power Points that stray from the agenda with pie charts, false and darkly personal, that narrow my dominion to a sliver, and bullets saying things are worse in all of my performance measurements.

i disagree with you, i personally don't appreciate silly sycophantic articles like this, we all know Per is not world class, we all know the only defender we have who is close to WC is Kos.And how the author can be so critical of Gabriel when hes played a handful of games is beyond me.We don't need stupid articles like this, we need real articles which provide proper analysis.

The god of the bible always to me struck me as a tyrant requiring sycophantic praise to fill his egomania lest he kill the «sinners».

At last, apart from the first 2 sentences, a sensible comment from you without resorting to name calling and sycophantic copy and pasting... well done..

Well not be too sycophantic, oh go on then I will be, I LOVE New York, sadly because they seem to like English people there so much I am inclined to turn into Mary Poppins by the time I have been there an hour and a half... Favorite CD?

Muddy Waters peels back the layers, often built up by seemingly respected but sycophantic law firms, auditors, and venal managements.

Because if we were meant to be sycophantic sheep, we all would be baa - ing in unison.

The clergy of that particular religion are just a bunch of sycophantic self - aggrandizing whackjobs that live in a land of make believe in their head so far from reality they can't even guess at what it's like anymore.

The Special One aka «The Spending One» — he has bored me now for about 10 years, strikes me that the Mou fan - club demographic must be 90 % made up of swooning middle - aged women, the tribal beer - boys and the giggling sycophantic press haggle.

In Splash's day the team managers had been fat, sycophantic types.

In other words the phrase «some eighteen members of the NPP» is not a silver bullet, since the flagbearer himself, Machiavellian characters such as Kennedy Agyapong and Kofi Jumah and Chairman Wontumi, and his top sycophantic advisors are indeed the NPP's internal enemies and a major threat to Akufo - Addo's political ambition.

For just over an hour and a quarter, self - important bubble Davies, supported by sycophantic squeak Chris Chope MP, talked and talked in vain hope that the proposal would run out of time and fail.

The Log Cabin Republicans are the most weak - kneed, sycophantic apologists I've ever encountered.

You saw that even in the way some were being unduly sycophantic on issues that were totally out of point... I saw there was a lot of deceit.»

Instead, the facts show that Lopez pressured Complainant 1 to send admiring and sycophantic text messages.

True, many MPs pump the party line out twenty times a day on social media; they swear undying loyalty to their leader, they post references to their own speeches, they condemn everything their opponents ever think or say and retweet their colleagues» sycophantic encomiums.

The opportunity for detailed discussion is much greater than is afforded by PMQs and the obvious danger for the administration is that they slip into the sort of sycophantic questioning that Labour MPs indulge in every week.

Historically, the Tory party has had a genius for switching from darkest treachery to sycophantic unity and performing the somersault at astonishing speed.

From anyone else this would sound appallingly sycophantic, but it sounded acceptable coming from Farron because he's so obviously not a leadership lackey.

Megamind's only friend, for instance, is a fishlike creature named Minion (a perfectly sycophantic David Cross) who trundles around in a humanoid bodysuit that's lined at the joints with plush mammalian fur.

, an «interview» with the hamsters» voice actors (Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney), who are infallibly pretentious and need constant, sycophantic reassurance from the producers — the joke here being, I guess, that no one should be putting this much thought into this movie.

No character escapes being reduced to the dimensionality of an undercooked SNL bit, including McCarthy's Deanna, wasting great talent such as Gillian Jacobs, Stephen Root, Maya Rudolph, and Chris Parnell on sycophantic nods to McCarthy's apparent monolithic greatness.

Unsurprisingly, the removal project goes terribly awry — and at least some of the aliens» secrets are revealed — but along the way Wikus morphs from a smug, callous, sycophantic moron into one of the more unlikely motion - picture protagonists you'll ever see.

The only supplement of note is a 30 - minute interview (also in 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen) with Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne conducted last October at what appears to be a French radio station by a disc jockey who, however sycophantic, isn't afraid to ask questions that might alienate casual listeners.

is an indeed endless sycophantic roundelay with one arguably interesting tidbit: that a generally game Aniston felt the line «I don't mind a little gravy on my beef» crossed her personal threshold.

If the group has a leader, he is played by Jake Weber as one of those rare movie leaders who asserts himself not through strength, bravado, or by inspiring others, but by being conciliatory, even a little sycophantic, in getting done what obviously needs to get done.

um... elsewhere is instantly a «star» actress [more on her and Scorsese's women here]; Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead) is a surprising standout as the least sycophantic member of Belfort's gang of crooks; ubiquitous Matthew McConaughey's monologue on masturbation with impromptu song - chanting is deeply entertaining; and the ingeniously cast Oscar winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) delivers a pitch perfect cameo as a smiling shady Swiss banker.

The Coens take many of the epic elements of the classic story including a cyclops, the sirens, and even some of the names, and transform it into a strange trip in a stranger South complete with fat sycophantic politicians and a good old - fashioned political election, cross burnings, racists, floods, chain gangs, idiots and bank robbers.

But if we walk away feeling Dean is still an enigmatic figure, Dennis Stock comes across as mildly sycophantic and rather banal personality, swirled up in the kind of unplanned family woes plaguing too many overzealous youths to bother mentioning.

Then there's Stanley Tucci, channeling his best Christopher Sarandon from The Princess Bride, as a perfectly over-the-top villain played in the most delicious way, complete with sycophantic side - kick played by another Trainspotting alum, Ewen Bremner.

With biceps (and arrogance) to spare, Evans is more hissably cruel than the cartoon's doltish hunter Josh Gad, meanwhile, adds layers to Gaston's sycophantic right - hand - man Le Fou.

The American Federation for Children, a front group for the voucher movement overseen by disgraced former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, has publicly bragged of spending massive amounts of campaign cash to elect sympathetic and sycophantic state senators.

To keep your book club on task, and to avoid it devolving into some kind of sycophantic bacchanal of people who buy sweaters on GILT group, try using discussion topics.

Sycophantic comment, finis.

However with Mr Johnny RyanI was reduced to a cringing sycophantic super-fan.

Spencer projects a weird, sycophantic personality when he's not awkwardly segueing into one of his talking points.