Sentences with phrase «too obsequious»
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.
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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.
Not exact matches
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.