obsequiousness

1 Obsequiousness in the journalism is getting worse and worse these days due to mal-competition between the media and misunderstanding or incorrect interpretation of the audience's demand.

新闻媒体相互间的不良竞争和对受众需求的误导、误解导致新闻媚俗化日益泛滥。

2 He later went on to write his famous realpolitik primer, “The Prince,” dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici with an obsequiousness now considered to have been just a little tongue-in-cheek.

3 She's constantly followed by obsequious assistants who will do anything she tells them to.

4 He became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful; I find his obsequiousness repellent.

他变得令人讨厌、易发怒,怀有恶意; 我发现他的奉承令人厌恶.

5 It is easy to see the woman-led, often explicitly religious movement as a group of reactionaries, attempting to impose moral obsequiousness on a public that did not share their values.

6 Her other great vocation — her campaign against imprecision and intellectual slovenliness, obsequiousness and mediocrity in all forms — continues unabated.

7 He is still operating from a playbook of obsequiousness that became second nature — he never aired his grievances publicly and delivered his often rose-colored counsel to Trump only in private, one-on-one settings.

8 He is received with extreme obsequiousness by Don Magnifico and his two daughters, whom he delights by his pretended attentions.

9 Actors like Alain Delon and Dennis Hopper have tried the role; Matt Damon played him as an obsequious, lower-class naïf; John Malkovich, as a slimy, camp killer.

10 Nixon’s foreign policy adviser, Henry Kissinger, sets a new land-speed record for obsequiousness: “You saved this country, Mr. President. The history books will show that, when no one will know what Watergate means.”

11 Sure, prime time host Sean Hannity conducted an obsequious interview with the former president a few days ago, but obsequiousness is Hannity’s natural state when in the same room with any right-wing demigod.

12 Certainly they’re telling themselves that their own political survival, hinging on obsequiousness to a president with a talent for retribution, matters more than honor.

13 Rice writes that she “didn’t have the patience or obsequiousness to run for office and was not keen on compromising my principles.”

14 That is why, when I finally make it to the front of the line and the anxiety ebbs, I am filled with remorse and self-loathing and become overly cordial to the point of obsequiousness.

15 How else can you account for Trump's parade of obsequiousness to Vladimir Putin?

16 Not only will politically motivated firing become easier, but it will also be easier to hire those who meet Mr. Trump’s standards: obsequiousness and, more often than not, a lack of qualifications.

17 The book also reproduces the admiring letters Hurston and Hughes sent to their “godmother,” whose fawning obsequiousness is enough to make one’s skin crawl.

18 The vice president, who for four years had remained loyal to Trump to the point of obsequiousness, was angry in return at the president’s public lashing.

19 Nash's other hand flashed forward a lighter with the obsequious speed of a motor salesman.

20 The obsequious villagers touched their caps but sneered behind her back.

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