One concerns Sharon, who is carefree, innocent, and eager to please.
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Greece is certainly eager to please China, a deep-pocketed friend.
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HBO's Lenú is dutifully quiet, studious, empathic, and eager to please.
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His sidekick, Hank, was eager to please and almost completely clueless.
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It's a cool spot with a friendly and eager-to-please staff.
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" The club describes them as "happy, self-assured and eager to please.
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The eager-to-please Annie we met in the series premiere would never.
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The Accord simply felt more comfortable and eager to please at high speeds.
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Something a little eager to please, a little vulnerable, a little high-strung.
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Lobbyists and supplicants are eager to please, whether via campaign contributions or a cocktail.
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We were both religious but not overly dogmatic, both gentle and eager to please.
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Mr. Trump seems eager to please them, even at the risk of regional destabilization.
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One concerns Rick's neighbor Sharon Tate, who is carefree, innocent, and eager to please.
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Dogs love humans, are good at reading us, and are eager to please us.
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He steps forward, eager to please when rich kids show up with a video camera.
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Eager to please, he dutifully follows my direction, but I'm having trouble seeing the screen.
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He gives a lovable face to the anxious outsider eager to please at any cost.
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" Peter, eager to please but getting it all wrong, answers, "How would we go about it?
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He describes their bond as one between a wise father and an eager-to-please son.
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But everyone seems game and eager to please, and happy to be working with Ms. McCarthy.
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Like the Movida scene that Almodóvar had emerged from, it was optimistic and eager to please.
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Judge appears outwardly an innocent young man, eager to please at this point in his career.
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The hospitals are eager to please the insurance companies that decide whether to pay medical claims.
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There will inevitably be a flood of praise for the expo from companies eager to please China.
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He is isolated within his organization, receiving feedback mostly from an inner circle eager to please him.
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But the international product isn't up to Nonesuch standards—too eager to please for such a titan.
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He described Flynn as a dog "looking for a lap" and one who was eager to please.
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She's really excited to work here since our company gives better benefits, and she's clearly eager to please.
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Eventually, the Bachelorette arrives and all the men supplicate at her feet, eager to please their once-girlfriend.
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It's a seemingly niche occupation that's extremely in demand for today's tykes and their eager-to-please parents.
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J.Crew was a dinosaur before Lyons came along; it was polite, genteel, eager to please and utterly inoffensive.
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He was not eager to please her, she realized, he was keen to be pleased by her pleasure.
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And he was an exceptional listener: attentive and full of questions, if a little too eager to please.
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Second, Trump is more eager to be loved (a classic Baby Boomer trait), which makes him eager to please.
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Both Asian countries have always been eager to please the U.S. government and will follow through on Treasury demands.
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Pop songs live by their hooks; it's no wonder that Merton's debut album piles them on, eager to please.
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Although she presented a relentlessly cheerful model of femininity on the outside, forever eager to please, she roiled poisonously within.
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Refining his acting as much as his dancing skills, he stays, sweetly, in eager-to-please character through the bow.
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They had no government or diplomatic experience, and were eager to please their staunchly pro-Israel and pro-Likud base.
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Dogs are obedient, eager to please and highly trainable, which is why they do all kinds of jobs for us.
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And then there's Candy, who was as well-meaning and eager to please in life as he was on-screen.
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Turns out, Venmo John was too docile, too eager-to-please — too successful and therefore not needy enough — for this show.
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By being eager to please, learning to sexy dance, and changing her wardrobe, Mia earns an invitation to join Gianna's gang.
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In the first couple of episodes she seems eager to please, to achieve like she's gunning for an A in dating.
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Most dogs are eager to please and have the potential the learn very quickly — the trick is finding the right motivation.
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These men were willing to do whatever I commanded them; they were so eager to please me and earn my favor.
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CARAMANICA Most of the South Korean music that reaches the West has been determinedly poppy, perfectly groomed and eager to please.
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His host, a deeply tanned, eager-to-please Sicilian, was dropping fish onto the seabed for him to "discover" on camera.
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The danger this time is that more Democrats, eager to please corporate donors before the elections in 2018, will pile on.
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They'll say Sondland only talked to the president a handful of times about Ukraine, and he was eager to please Trump.
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When the movie is at its best, it's scrappy, eager to please, and — thanks to some superb comedic acting — deliciously strange.
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"Dogs are incredibly eager to please, so they make a great running companion," adds Patrick Robak, co-founder of DogGo Dash Club.
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But he was inclined to serve, and when his skills were acknowledged—particularly by people with authority—he was eager to please.
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Some leaders fear a campaign to isolate Moscow for its destabilizing activities could be quickly undone by an eager-to-please Trump.
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She's seductive in her relaxed manner—less frantic and eager to please than her Kosovan counterpart Rita Ora, yet still exuding polish.
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It was bright, eager to please, easy to memorize, and perfectly suited to accompany the frantic flailing I thought qualified for dancing.
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Indeed, she is so eager to please that she strains to be the encouraging, unintimidating woman she believes Robert wants her to be.
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Eager to please, Pang called a vegetable farmer friend and did a Ground Force-style makeover of his garden in just three days.
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We had 8 young Chinese employees on H-1B visas with us as developers, limited in experience but eager to please and learn.
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On its surface, the story from The Cut publicizes a toxic friendship between an eager-to-please Beach and a fame-chasing Calloway.
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President Trump views the network as a convenient safe space where he can express himself with little criticism from eager-to-please hosts.
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Abouammo was eager to please and had a taste for money, a counterpart at a rival company who knew him told BuzzFeed News.
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She's the one of his kids with Helen (Maura Tierney) who expresses anything other than disdain for him, so he's eager to please.
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In her hands, Chase isn't just nervous and excited, as the plot requires, but funny, a little selfish, and a lot eager to please.
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FOTB isn't unsure of itself; to the contrary, it is less self-conscious and eager to please than anything else to the band's name.
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" Eager to please his guest and entertain his viewers at the same time, Leno tells Allen, "I'm going to make your dream come true.
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Eager to please my new boss, I tried to work ahead on the prep list one morning while she was upstairs in the office.
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The subject of "I, Tonya" — a winking, eager-to-please, fictionalized gloss on the disgraced ice skater Tonya Harding — gets roughed up a lot.
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This raises an obvious question: If Republican lawmakers hadn't been so eager to please their big donors, would they have put together a different bill?
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They also note that Trump's unwillingness to go along with Russia's call for an extension contradicts the narrative that he's too eager to please Putin.
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But our demand to know, combined with pundits eager to please an audience, leads to people making claims about polls that just don't stand up.
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He's shown himself so eager to please that he willingly shares highly classified intelligence, right after sacking the top investigator of his connection to Russia.
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We've got eager-to-please eldest Meg (Emma Watson), spunky tomboy Jo (Saoirse Ronan), sweet and sickly Beth (Eliza Scanlen), and bratty Amy (Florence Pugh).
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Jokes and bullets are tossed like confetti in "Deadpool," a feverishly eager-to-please comic-book movie about a supervillain who suits up like a superhero.
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Now, just days away from controlling the House, the Senate and the White House, Republicans are eager to please their base by delivering instant Obamacare repeal.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with the show, but it's so aggressively harmless and eager to please that it ends up being a bit of a slog.
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I missed the Blair years entirely (I still think of Mr Blair as an eager-to-please shadow home secretary who always answered my phone calls).
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Mr. Baroni, prosecutors argued, was just as much a part of the governor's inner circle, and eager to please "Trenton" — a code word for Mr. Christie.
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Mr. Whitaker has appeared eager to please the president in meetings in the Oval Office, according to two people with direct knowledge of his visits there.
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Motherless from the age of 2, Midhat is eager to please his emotionally distant father, who has remarried and moved much of his business to Cairo.
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Eager to please, impressionable adolescents take their cues from adults in their lives, who might unconsciously model behavior that runs counter to being true to self.
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The agency, he writes, is so eager to please the president — any president — that it will almost always give him the answers he wants to hear.
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Mr. Nixon's most scathing criticism is reserved for the C.I.A, which he describes as a haven for yes-men excessively eager to please the White House.
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It's hard to imagine that less than three years ago, this trim, eager-to-please figure was doing anything he could to finance his own habit.
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Meanwhile, Sony and Microsoft are so eager to please future-looking consumers that both companies have released console refreshes specifically for the alphabet soup of 4K HDR.
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Jane's colleague asked for Klonopin to help her sleep, so Jane, eager to please, gave in, even though the instructions on her pill bottle prohibit doing so.
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And in the next part of the play, removing her jacket and reintroducing herself as a grown woman less eager to please, she lets the ghosts out.
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For me, it brought back memories of dressing up my sister, her eager to please, testing out a costume that felt a little more me than her.
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She was reserved and barely answered any questions the only time we spoke, though seemed eager to please me when she did, like a daughter would a father.
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Generally speaking, he is intensely loyal, eager to please the president and, as his decision to become Trump's running mate shows, limited in his ability to see danger.
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One way to do that is to pin all the blame on Messrs Sondland, Giuliani and others eager to please Mr Trump, but not on the president himself.
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I am so focused on my shame, irritated and stubborn and eager to please everyone else, that I continue to compromise my own experiences for better or worse.
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Amy is a different spin on the antihero archetype, one driven less by bad behavior than by being a woman who isn't constantly pleasant and eager to please.
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Two main stories run on parallel tracks in the film: One concerns Rick's neighbor and budding movie star Sharon Tate, who is carefree, innocent, and eager to please.
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So, what's our gifting solution for when beauty to fashion and tech ideas don't feel like a fit for that especially discerning person you're so eager to please?
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The Loyal, a handsome, highly polished new brasserie—which appeared on Bleecker Street just as Matt Umanov Guitars, open since 1965, took its leave—is charmingly eager to please.
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So when the president of the United States continually makes clear that he is a huge fan of "alternative facts," what's an eager-to-please administration official to do?
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As the opera continues — with Massenet's effervescent and eclectic score, eager to please and utterly pleasing under the baton of Maurizio Benini — Ms. Oropesa's musicality becomes even more layered.
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Ours, who was introduced as Mr. Spencer, was eager to please in a slightly phony American way that I appreciated but that made my Swiss husband roll his eyes.
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Led by America Ferrera as store manager Amy and Ben Feldman as eager-to-please new employee Jonah, the employees of Cloud 9 are alternately bored, restless, and determined.
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Crucially, he'll spend hours on the phone with his clients—hopeful Korean teens, anxious about their college prospects and eager to please their parents by getting into the right school.
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Welcome to the Jungle is a diversionary piece of entertainment, so eager to please that it's able to get in and out without leaving either a positive or negative impression.
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Angela Kinsey, who has not been around nearly enough since her days on The Office, also puts on an almost painfully sincere show as the eager-to-please mother with fibromyalgia.
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Eager to please dedicated fans of The Office, NBC is taking full advantage of the Jim and Pam sports showdown, and even released a parody trailer before Game 22019 on Monday.
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In addition to its assembly of 105 dealers of art by the young, restless and eager to please, NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) New York has something no others have: basketball.
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And though Rihanna doesn't have much to do as Glover's girlfriend, the two at least share a spiky chemistry: Glover is eager to please, while Rihanna remains ever hard to impress.
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It was a show of shiny costumes and big smiles, of a huge group of dancers all sharing the same moves, an outpouring of energy that was eager to please everybody.
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"Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it sends a signal that women are ... docile and eager-to-please helper," a report from the UN noted earlier this year.
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But at the other extreme of the continuum, people who are so conforming and eager to please would much rather follow established rules and remain "good employees" rather than be disruptive leaders.
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As much as Trump spoke like a leader over-eager to please, his body language suggested a cowering respect for Putin as the kind of manly man Trump wishes he could be.
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Rather, it is that some people in American academia, too eager to please Beijing or too fearful of offending China and the Chinese people, have submitted to a sophisticated global censorship regime.
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Eager to please, he ran a campaign marked by an extended list of promises — to organized labor, to progressive party activists, to environmentalists, to immigrants, to disenchanted Democrats, to the poor, to commuters.
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I can be anxious and too eager to please, so I often find myself yanking on the oars instead of relying on stronger muscles in my legs and back to do the work.
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And while GOP lawmakers are eager to please their base with headlines of Obamacare's repeal, they don't want to be blamed for leaving people without health insurance and chaos in the healthcare market. Sen.
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While all the pups aim to please, Cunard, a cruise line based out of England, thought the eager-to-please pooches deserved a little attention themselves, so it treated them to a tea break.
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Ms. Kelly, ostracized by the governor as a rogue and a liar after her email was exposed, came off as a newly promoted employee who had been eager to please her boss, Mr. Christie.
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Jello said he'd been trying for years to get a Denver band to name itself [Expletive] the Broncos, which I agreed was inspired, but not quite right for an eager-to-please cover band.
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The diplomat did not, but eager to please the actress, he located a chess club and forwarded a note given to him by the actress, which contained a chess problem she was having difficulty solving.
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Their film leaves the door wide open for sequels and sets up a supporting cast for future installments, and the excessively entertaining, eager-to-please nature of this movie makes it easy to welcome that option.
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Dogs are eager to please and will tolerate small discomforts to keep up with you, he adds, so if he's lagging behind or refusing to move, then he's extremely tired and you've pushed him too far.
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Despite Ichimura's desire to experiment and "pull as much umami as possible," he says he is more eager to please than to prove a point about how far he can go in the direction of funk.
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Franz Liszt, the other towering virtuoso pianist-composer of the 19th century, had many virtues but was almost never as subtle or tasteful as Chopin: He was an enthusiastic, friendly dog, often too eager to please.
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After the White House released a rough transcript of a July 25 call between the American and Ukrainian presidents, Mr. Zelensky was panned in Ukraine on social media for seeming too eager to please Mr. Trump.
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As Rosemary, Mia Farrow may start out meek and submissive, eager to please her husband and fulfill her duties as a homemaker and wife, but she evolves throughout the film, her anxieties and burdens becoming our own.
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According to the malpractice suit, the doctors were so eager to please that they violated protocols, and at one point Dr. Cohen pulled out his cellphone and took a photograph of Ms. Rivers on the operating table.
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She may be best remembered for "Twilight Zone: The Movie" (1983), in which she was the terrified, understandably eager-to-please mother whose little boy can wish people out of existence — and does, whenever someone annoys him.
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A national version of the pages is similar to the Texas edition, which does not call attention to gun rights ... Publishers are eager to please state policymakers of both parties, during a challenging time for the business.
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The city's leader is not elected by a direct vote of the population, but selected, from a small slate of candidates vetted by Beijing, by a 1,200-member election committee comprising mostly people eager to please Beijing.
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With a soft voice and an aw-shucks grin, Utecht, the son of a Methodist minister, was so disarming and eager to please that it was difficult to imagine that he played a violent game like football.
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Ever eager to please, Vice President Mike Pence appeared at the President's shoulder, explaining that it was "inconceivable" that such people were not in the column, placing the burden of proof on those who doubt the claim.
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"They can be very snobby at some of the French restaurants in this neighborhood, but suddenly they are very eager to please," said Lana Rozenberg, who has a dental practice on 63rd Street, just off Fifth Avenue.
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But where Anne is a lovable puppy dog of a character, eager to please and to be pleased and willing to find her own flights of fancy funny with hindsight, Emily is cooler, more serious, and more restrained.
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That has been backed by many locals, who have so far rebuffed Uber's aggressive local expansion plans that have often run roughshod over domestic regulation, and by German politicians eager to please some of the country's biggest employers.
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Part of Trump's hiring approach: Make an offer you WILL refuse The next week or two will provide a deeper sense of how many longtime loyalists Trump is eager to please, and how many he is prepared to disappoint.
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Throughout the evening, Aoki is eager to please, prefacing songs energetically by letting you know he's about to drop some "brand new shit," that he hopes you'll like, and spends time ensuring the crowd gets in his Snapchat story.
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Our country is being taken over through the cities first, aided by the willful disregard of federal law by Democrat politicians eager to please special interests and anti-American organizations instead of protecting their cities and our country's borders.
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He also constructed friends, rivals and venues, all on display in his latest show, in a busy, eager-to-please installation; wrote and recorded songs; and made an entertainingly silly animated concert video, which screened at the installation's opening.
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The assistants enable the notion that "women are obliging, docile and eager-to-please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a blunt voice command," says a report by UNESCO, the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
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The July call is central to the impeachment inquiry, and embarrassed Zelenskiy because it showed him as eager to please Trump and critical of European partners whose support he needs to strengthen Ukraine's economy and to end the conflict with Russia.
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Bolsonaro, an outspoken Trump admirer who seemed eager to please at their first meeting, failed to win more room for Brazil's sugar exports or overturn a U.S. ban on fresh Brazilian beef - both major objectives of the country's farm sector.
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As said by the actor Michael B. Jordan, who delivers the line not with a guttural oomph but the eager-to-please fervor of a young kid hoping to impress his father, it doesn't quite carry the intimidation the line seems to demand.
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In this telling, the young Savannah is an eager-to-please naïf who falls first for Laura's smooth talk and then for the mounting pleasures that playing this fictional creation delivers, including a relationship with an actress-director wittily played by Diane Kruger.
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As you continue to watch the pair go back and forth, it becomes clear the claustrophobic moment is set up like a metaphorical oral sex scene, with Angel standing with a list of demands and Stan, sitting at about crotch level, eager to please.
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Today, mainstream E.D.M. commands about as much respect as disco did then, and for some of the same reasons: it seems too formulaic, too quick to slough off older musical values, too eager to please the hordes on the dance floors and the grassy fields.
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Pudgy and mild-mannered, he is eager to please, quick to embrace, and, when he is offended or patronized—something I saw happen more than once in the halls and offices of the Knesset—he recedes, wincing slightly, as if experiencing an unpleasant digestive event.
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That contrast troubles Russia experts and former U.S. officials who say that a president who famously ignored staff instructions not to congratulate Putin on winning a tainted election campaign is liable to make promises and concessions to a Russian autocrat he seems eager to please.
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Aiming to preserve his ability to work with Trump if he's re-elected, Zelenskiy has struggled to stay neutral even after the White House released a memo detailing his July 25 phone call with Trump that embarrassed the young Ukrainian leader, by showing him seeming eager to please the U.S. president.
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But I think the biggest source of his success was his independence, and, as is well known, he seemed to take an almost perverse pleasure in refusing any amenity offered by the designers who were so eager to please him because he cared that much about the integrity of the work.
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Like any first-year graduate student who is simultaneously eager to please and determined to find somebody to look down on, I proudly took on the mantle of being an "institutionalist," and even learned to showcase the requisite disdain for anyone who failed to see the wisdom of the movement.
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After all, even if Trump didn't offer a quid pro quo, he quite clearly was aware of the power imbalance between the two nations and the fact that Ukraine would be eager to please the US. That's not to say that every Republican should come out for impeaching Trump today.
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"As our climate spins out of control, bureaucrats eager to please the Trump administration have worked feverishly to destroy the reputations of climate scientists who stand in its way," said Kevin Bell, a lawyer for Luber at the watchdog group the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, who is filing the complaint.
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But perhaps the most puzzling question is why the opponents of U.S. energy are so eager to please Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and Russia itself, in light of the favor they are doing Putin and Russia by helping keep energy prices high — thus financing what some see as our most dangerous enemy.
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Famous for its blueberry lemonade and down-home fare, this restaurant, serving only lunch (it first opened in 1940) is in the shape of a smiling, eager-to-please Aunt Jemima-esque "mammy" wearing a really big skirt in the shape of a dome; customers dine — astonishingly — under the skirt of this degrading stereotype.
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They have also said Trump's move to broaden the accords would contradict the narrative that he's eager to please Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinTrump administration mulling special negotiator for nuke talks with Russia: report Former Goldman Sachs CEO rips Sanders after NH win: 'He'll ruin our economy' Lawmakers raise concerns over Russia's growing influence in Venezuela MORE.
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But the feelings they experienced weren't fake, and even after decades of trying to come to grips with what happened to them — something both the men and their wives and families talk about in the last hour of Leaving Neverland — it's hard for them to feel, as children eager to please and be valued, that they were being used.
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Paradoxically, the relentless pep of other Korean girl groups, so eager to please, can strip songs of tension, and everything i becomes overly smooth; here, the same enthusiasm turns delightfully weird, almost an irritant, the source of cognitive dissonance, for if nine singers can hear such a racket and still confess their longings with a smile, something surreal must be going on.
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For more of Andrea Savage, stream "I'M SORRY," on truTV, her semi-autobiographical series about a seemingly together, tad too-eager-to-please comedy writer who only looks like a grown-up as she plays off her more strait-laced husband, Mike (Tom Everett Scott), and their preschooler, Amelia (Olive Petrucci); her writing partner, Kyle (Jason Mantzoukas); and her divorced parents (Martin Mull and Kathy Baker).
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For their part, Democrats, still seething from the election and eager to please their affronted base, have done all they can to stymie what little the Republicans have tried to do, dragging out cabinet nominations to the best of their procedural ability and instigating a nasty fight over Mr. Trump's choice for the Supreme Court that ended a decades-long tradition of bipartisan comity on such nominees.
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Price relied on the theory that some events are so traumatic that they are retrieved only through flashbacks and dreams, a notion that became so fashionable in the nineteen-eighties and nineties that it led to one of the most shameful episodes in the history of psychotherapy: patients, eager to please their therapists, engaged in "memory work," which produced claims of convoluted forms of abuse, like infant incest and satanic ritual rape—memories they later disavowed.
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This failure to react left me wondering if I was reaffirming certain prehistoric beliefs, namely, that the man says what he wants without fear of consequence while the woman (me) stays quiet and perpetually fears consequence (in my case: no tip, loss of a "good" reputation, and the loss of a job.) That said, I don't think it's wrong to partake in the performance of eager-to-please femininity if that's what you want and if both parties are aware of and OK with what is—a transaction.
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