Acheson does not care about trading niceties or being ingratiating.
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But the show's overall tone was ingratiating and its words restrained.
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He's a game show host, but he's not hearty or ingratiating.
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I mean she was just so instantly ingratiating and funny and outspoken.
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The spaces they depict, and ask that we enter, are not ingratiating.
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Visually sumptuous and cleverly conceived, it's as ingratiating as a Disney cartoon.
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But for me, Chatwin evokes a serene curiosity that I find ingratiating.
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Shoeys, sadly, seem to be ingratiating themselves deeply in Australian music culture.
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Nor is the work ingratiating, playing up hackneyed tokens of Hispanic heritage.
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She doesn't play innocent, or ingratiating, or flirtatious, or perky, or cute.
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Echo has a way of ingratiating itself into one's most mundane moments.
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The persona she creates on the page is always frank but never ingratiating.
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Whereas Hela is overtly destructive and dominant, the Grandmaster is a more ingratiating figure.
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He has a gift for ingratiating himself into very foreign surroundings and teasing out stories.
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Trying to thaw the chill, the House speaker displays his best ingratiating Irish undertaker air.
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But when it's camouflaged to disguise weaknesses and shortcomings, then it's just ingratiating and placating.
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You would be hard pressed to find a more ingratiating spokesman for former child combatants.
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My shrink was a handsome man in his 70s — curly hair, a large, ingratiating face.
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Zelensky begins by ingratiating himself, and he tries to enlist the support of the president.
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The woman told BuzzFeed News that Gogoi kept finding ways of ingratiating himself with her family.
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Getting released from prison and ingratiating yourself back in the world isn't always a smooth transition.
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To them, Mr. Penn appeared intent on ingratiating himself with Mr. Trump for some unknown benefit.
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" But, she said, Mr. Fallon's ingratiating treatment of Mr. Trump is "a problem because we love him.
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Realizing she was gifted at ingratiating herself with strangers, she later started what would become the Belles.
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Love for cross-country became an essential national trait, one that any ingratiating foreigner has to embrace.
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He's unpleasant, but not in an especially interesting way, and ingratiating in a way that's even drearier.
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But many have nonetheless managed to stay in the West Wing by ingratiating themselves with the president.
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Whitten never made work that was charming, kitschy, or ingratiating, which are the moves of the privileged.
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You are not ingratiating yourselves with all the hip millennial sports fans by Topher-fying every team's name.
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"Caregivers in particular, often younger women, are ingratiating themselves into the lives of older men," Mr. Peck said.
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The scenes of Matt's education are diverting and overly ingratiating, characterized by snappy edits and broadly deployed comedy.
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One of them is an ingratiating man, "afraid of being sucked into the margins," played by Beau Thom.
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The album is a complex, varied, subtle, richly multilayered work, overflowing with ideas and by no means immediately ingratiating.
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It's not ingratiating—it's more like 'You're a human being and I'm a human being, and that's pretty funny.
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The killer stalked his victims, ingratiating himself as a repairman, and then killed them in a spasm of violence.
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I'm not yet feeling that about Mr. Brewer, an ingratiating young actor with a strong voice and nonstop smile.
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Soon a 15-year-old girl named Heidi arrives, with a compulsively ingratiating smile and a buttercup yellow blazer.
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There's something mildly sinister about the interlopers, with their ingratiating smiles, aw-shucks mannerisms and continued refusal to leave.
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It is not a pretty role, and properly so; why should Kendra have to be ingratiating to be sympathetic?
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What distinguishes him from his followers is wealth and celebrity, but it's his ingratiating crudity that does the real work.
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In 2020, ingratiating oneself to a shrinking cadre of male gatekeepers is no longer the shrewd strategy it once was.
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Death has a way of ingratiating even the most monstrous toward their families ... once the offenders are safely passed on.
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Gary has become a bit of a celebrity after ingratiating himself with a group of kangaroos in Seaford Meadows, South Australia.
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In these and other scenes, Castro demonstrates his much bruited charisma, playing to Mr. Alpert's camera in a slyly ingratiating way.
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He once called me a "killer," but that was to my face, and I think he was trying to be ingratiating.
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Mr. Phillips, whose earlier works include "Capsule 33" and "Red-Eye to Havre de Grace," is an ingratiating writer and performer.
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Mr. Cruise's brisk, ingratiating performance — all smiles, hard-charging physicality and beads of sweat — does a lot to soften the edges.
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Politics and sycophancy have a long association, ranging from the ingratiating punctilio of diplomacy to the pomp and fatuity of state visits.
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Documentaries about film technology, at least those that aspire to reach some portion of a mainstream audience, have to make wonkiness ingratiating.
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But if Mr. Hill's overarching plot has its problems, he remains a terrifically ingratiating writer when it comes to ambience and spirit.
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A number of Dance Theater of Harlem students did some ingratiating boogieing in an untitled Gladys Knight tribute choreographed by Robert Garland.
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Redmayne can be a sensitive presence, but when he isn't well directed his fluttering and darting looks quickly settle into ingratiating shtick.
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His works can feel too ingratiating, too crowd-pleasing, too user-friendly—the ubiquitous décor of the corporate lobby and the child's nursery.
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It's clear that Danny thinks the world of Luke and desperately wants to be liked, but even that plays as ingratiating and relatable.
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Was he the charming, ingratiating kid who never grew up or the swaggering, cagey entertainment magnate fiercely protective of his work and stature?
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There is nothing about Sylvia Hernandez's colorful quilts that is posturing, nor is the work ingratiating, playing up hackneyed tokens of Hispanic heritage.
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The production has the feel of a pop concert, with the ingratiating performers dancing up the aisles and exhorting the audience to respond.
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Ms. Cohen's Nell has an ingratiating smile that's heartbreaking; she seems perfectly content to subsist on the crumbs of attention tossed her way.
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Many young Muslims are done with condemning attacks they had nothing to do with, or ingratiating themselves to politicians who lash out at Islam.
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His Alan Alda —handsy, cloyingly ingratiating—underlined Alda's neediness, and his Al Pacino pinpointed Pacino's complacent admiration of his baritone sax of a voice.
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Word of the Day : unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech _________ The word unctuous has appeared in 22 articles on nytimes.
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For all the profanity and naughty behavior, it has the timid, ingratiating vibe of a television sitcom, sticking to safe and familiar emotional territory.
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It's a far more ingratiating piece than the Variations, but its abstract and unsentimental treatment of jazz and ragtime influences demands an attentive audience.
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While this isn't the typical attitude for Twitch streamers, the idea was that there was something valid or potentially valuable about this less ingratiating approach.
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Her work is not ingratiating, and a lot of that is due to her refusal to "close": to close forms with contours, to close paintings.
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By all accounts, he's a polished and persistent diplomat, adept at ingratiating himself with influential Americans and putting the best face possible on his nation.
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Both the ferocious "Living Sculpture" and the more ingratiating pictures and little sculptures that followed it made positive content out of being consigned to domesticity.
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It was six miles from the Clintons' house, and Trump could play with him, ingratiating himself further by hanging photos of Bill on the wall.
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The paranormal showdown is fuzzy at best, but the pacing rocks and Spall radiates such ingratiating evil that he needs no help from special effects.
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It's a painting and rock 'n' roll den, where art is the total, almost devotional focus; Acheson does not care about trading niceties or being ingratiating.
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Devised and performed by the Mad Ones, it takes place in the teachers' lounge, and swiftly reveals the frustrations bubbling under a veneer of ingratiating politeness.
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Sometimes this involves tense, decorous exchanges with the proprietor's grandson (Humberto Carrão), a young man with a slick, ingratiating manner and a North American business degree.
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"I have qualms about mainstream writers who are getting into cannabis lying to their sources and pretending that they use cannabis to be ingratiating," she said.
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Its characters are believable, recognizable people, played by a mix of actors you may already know and love from other TV shows and instantly ingratiating newcomers.
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The show begins with Fleabag being interviewed for a clerical job, and it establishes her contradictory approach to others, including the audience, equally ingratiating and antagonistic.
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And that Laird, whose inappropriateness and eager-puppy manner are at once offensive and ingratiating, belongs to a future that many of us are uncomfortable with.
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The scene telegraphs the shifting power dynamics Thurgood represents, but it also announces that the movie will resort to easy, ingratiating comedy to sell the goods.
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The race, however, has since tightened, and Cruz might now bank his career on ingratiating himself with Trump's supporters in the interest of a future presidential bid.
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What's left of his blond hair is set off by a bandanna, and his voice is laid-back but definite, with an ingratiating hint of a rasp.
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Since the 1980s, Nader has made a habit of ingratiating himself with administrations in Washington by volunteering to open lines of communication with elusive Middle Eastern leaders.
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His stubborn integrity made him an artist's artist of special standing, revered by younger painters whose more ingratiating work has made them more successful than he was.
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Rather than study at arm's length, the young Briton had spent months ingratiating herself with the local chimpanzee population; giving them names, and learning to read their emotions.
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Bannon's a career enabler who has spent enormous quantities of time and energy devoted to ingratiating himself with major figures, then playing off them for his own benefit.
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The scientific literature suggests that people in positions of power are even worse at it, perhaps because they are living in their own echo chamber of ingratiating laughter.
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Several ingratiating studies this year indicated that luxuriating in warm water aids in recovery from strenuous exercise and also, surprisingly, helps us to acclimate to hot-weather workouts.
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By ingratiating herself with her castmates in the personal exchanges in the house, she used the show to recast her image from scheming sellout Trump appointee to "human" Omarosa.
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Prosecutors in their criminal complaint accused Butina of ingratiating herself with politically powerful Americans and groups, including the NRA, and exploiting those connections to try to advance Russian interests.
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In England, we watch Bela give a speech, and he is almost shy — this little man, by turns ingratiating and pugnacious, who insists on the primacy of political art.
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Trump has, in the past week, said and done several things that concretely undermine the US's relationship with Western Europe while at the same time ingratiating himself with Putin.
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The coastal locations (filmed in Sri Lanka) are picturesque, the Bollywoodish music is catchy and the performers, including Amanda Redman of "New Tricks" as the hospital's overseer, are ingratiating.
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The coastal locations (filmed in Sri Lanka) are picturesque, the Bollywoodish music is catchy and the performers, including Amanda Redman of 'New Tricks' as the hospital's overseer, are ingratiating.
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Sherwood, who was described by a network executive as "very ingratiating" but "also deadly," scoffed at Barr and told her the tweet was "egregious and unforgivable," according to the actress.
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DIPLOMATS from various countries have spent the past few weeks booking suites at the Trump International Hotel in Washington in the hope of ingratiating themselves with president-elect Donald Trump.
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He won nomination only after first ingratiating himself with his company by memorising the official rules and referee signals of volleyball, which made him a respected referee of platoon matches.
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Critics see Langfang's plans as an ingratiating move by a smaller city to curry favor with the Chinese government, particularly in light of Beijing's recent crackdowns on Christians and Muslims.
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Break dance drops, high kicks, heads pulled back in the ecstasy of a self-caress, ingratiating bows with steepled hands — each move made clear that these were performative gestures of joy.
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"I earnestly hope that Fudan University can be less groveling, flattering, ingratiating, and be kindly and smartly a tower of strength," said the letter, which was quickly removed from the internet.
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" But Charles Champlin of The Los Angeles Times said that while Mr. Burton was "ingratiating," he delivered "a one-note characterization of worried embarrassment, which becomes mildly boring and generously unconvincing.
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AQAP boasts 22009,24.7 fighters in Mukalla alone, controls 1.43 km (21.4 miles) of coastline and is ingratiating itself with southern Yemenis, who have felt marginalized by the country's northern elite for years.
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Mr. Khan has been holding meeting after meeting, and his party leaders have been furiously making long and ingratiating phone calls to charm another 20 or so politicians to join their side.
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When we first meet her, she is smiling, ingratiating, hoping to be perceived as intelligent and trustworthy, and slightly on the defensive, not unlike a teacher on the first day of class.
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Kevyn Morrow is charismatic as their old friend the Duke of Norfolk, while John Ahlin is vivid and comical in two roles, as the ingratiating diplomat Chapuys and More's enemy, Cardinal Wolsey.
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And considering how chummy and ingratiating Swift sounds in the clips that Kardashian posted to Snapchat, it's difficult to imagine Swift saying something so confrontational within the span of the same conversation.
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Butina founded a group called Right to Bear Arms, where she focused on jump-starting the gun rights movement in Russia — and allegedly ingratiating herself with leaders on the right in the process.
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One partial, uncomfortable answer is that it offers the greatest concentration of expensive, ostentatiously bad TV — formulaic, bombastic, ingratiating shows that make you shake your head at the squandering of money and talent.
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Mr. Lazenby is a good storyteller, chummy but not falsely ingratiating, with seemingly little concern that a lot of the information he imparts concerning, say, his sexual conquests, is arguably Too Much Information.
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John Ensign (R) in a costly Senate battle in 1998, Elias worked on Reid's behalf as the ballots were recounted, ingratiating himself to the man who would later lead Senate Democrats for a decade.
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You may act like a completely different person — ingratiating yourself to higher powers, publicly holding political views you don't believe in; in other words, completely subjugated to the system around you — but the self remains.
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In this historical context, Joe becomes ingratiating and antiblack, a self-loathing Harvard-educated black man spouting the kind of pseudo-scientific babble that was used for centuries to justify the enslavement of his people.
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She claims financial guru Barry Siegel sold 85% of her interest in Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE) and then gave the money to Robert F.X. Sillerman as a way of ingratiating himself with the famous investor.
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Gray haired with an owlish pair of black glasses, he speaks with jaunty indifference and ingratiating candor, a combination that always made the tsk-tskers who disapproved of his client list sound unworldly and naïve.
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He has an ingratiating tenor that rises smoothly into falsetto, and for these songs he kept his piano parts subdued and transparent, with hints of Paul Simon, Randy Newman and Stephen Sondheim in their harmonies.
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Patel, who now works on justice initiatives at Grace Farms Foundation, said predators can do this by ingratiating themselves and making themselves useful to the parent, and/or, as in this case, by physical separation.
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But executive producer and co-writer Ezra Koenig, best-known as the lead singer and guitarist of Vampire Weekend, infused the six-episode series with ingratiating self-importance and existential doubt that weighed down the fun.
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But Mr. Adams practices a gentler, more ingratiating — an over all more American — form of eclecticism than does the Dutch Mr. Andriessen, whose idiom is generally harder-edged, even when he's quoting pop standards or tango.
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As Seymour, the dorky hero of "Little Shop," the 1982 musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, he scents his ingratiating persona as a song-and-dance kid with a creepy whiff of rankly corruptible innocence.
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On Saturday night, with many of the same guests plus the gospel-tinged BGV Music Choral Group, Mr. Cale offered an uncompromising survey of his post-Velvets career: his most hardheaded songs, not his most ingratiating ones.
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The message is clear, and it won't take much for a political appointee in some agency to conceive of an ingenious way of ingratiating himself with the White House by making life difficult for the store chain.
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Trump is going to tell Peña Nieto that Mexico has to pay for the wall; Peña Nieto is going to tell Trump to go fuck himself, ingratiating himself to both Mexican voters and future U.S. President Hillary Clinton.
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It would be professionally criminal to flub such an ingratiating, star-making assignment, and although Ford plays in a relaxed, drawing style, reminiscent of Jack Nicholson at his foxiest, he maintains a firm grip on this golden opportunity.
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Out of loneliness, boredom and more than a little narrative convenience, Yasuko remains unfailingly pleasant to Nishino, who, after rebuffing her, abruptly turns his smile and attention on her, sweeping her up in a fog of ingratiating menace.
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President Bill Clinton was known for glad-handing his way through shops and restaurants, attending parties with stars like Carly Simon, going to clambakes with William Styron, and ingratiating himself in ways that have created enduring good will.
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But it wasn't my whole life; it was every lie, every counterfeit pose, every missed opportunity to say or do something true, every false act and ingratiating gesture, every pathetic attempt to be seen in a certain light.
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Being conciliatory and ingratiating, submitting oneself as sweet and quiet and ultimately harmless — those were precisely the kinds of tactics with which an individual woman, conditioned to survive on men's terms, might obtain a reprieve but not respect.
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There have been reports of participants in the courses crying and proclaiming that they have been wasting their lives—but whether or not this was just a means of ingratiating themselves with the prison staff remains to be seen.
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The works, by forty-two mostly L.G.B.T.Q.-identified artists, who range in age from twenty-seven to sixty-seven, artist teams, and collectives tend to be elegant and ingratiating, temperate, or even a little boring—though not unpleasantly so.
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One candidate, with her husband, sets up a foundation that allegedly has as its purpose the betterment of the world but gets it funding through governments and individuals who have a unique interest in ingratiating themselves with powerful Americans.
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But when President Donald Trump tweeted directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday, making sweeping allegations of political bias by the tech giant (and describing Pichai as an ingratiating smooth-talker), Google's employee message boards were unusually calm.
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The reveal of the city, when players emerge through the clouds and gaze at it framed perfectly through a window, while serenaded by tender religious music, is undoubtedly ingratiating—BioShock Infinite wants us to think this place is beautiful.
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Sporting a black wig, false teeth and a wonky, conspiratorial smile, he's in his element, ingratiating himself with everyone close to his daughter while Ines, infuriated, is forced to keep schtum through her own embarrassment, lest she reveal their connection.
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Beefy with slicked-back hair, Efraim has a gregarious, ingratiating demeanor that makes you instantly distrust anything he says, but Hill is so boisterous and charming that we understand why the going-nowhere David convinces himself that their bond is real.
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Rick Scott (R-Fla.) are running commercials aimed at raising their profiles in key electoral battlegrounds and — perhaps more important — ingratiating themselves with President Donald Trump and his supporters, who could prove critical in any future Republican presidential primary contest.
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Ms. White, with her perma-sparkle and slight Texas accent, is a more nervous and ingratiating Nora than was the swaggering Ms. Metcalf; she wrings laughs everywhere she can, even from the flip of her skirt as she finishes her arias.
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But his friends all cite an affable, ingratiating personality that has earned him allies throughout the Trump administration, notably including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Mr. Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, both of whom supported his appointment.
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And on the other are those who believe that we should not allow certain unpalatable rich people to use museums as whitewashing tools, as mechanisms for ingratiating themselves with factions of the liberal and cultural ruling class and rehabilitating an unpopular image.
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What makes this work — and the first two episodes of "What Would Diplo Do?" are reasonably ingratiating and amusing — is the Van Der Beek straddle, the tension between the hipsterdom he seems to aspire to and the normality he can't help projecting.
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But the leaked cache also included thousands of emails exchanged by Democratic officials and party fund-raisers, revealing in rarely seen detail the elaborate, ingratiating and often bluntly transactional exchanges necessary to harvest hundreds of millions of dollars from the party's wealthy donor class.
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The move has puzzled many, and triggered skepticism about what his motivations might be — whether it is sincere, or a way of ingratiating himself with the black community following his embrace of President Trump, or perhaps a way of rebranding his business model as a ministry.
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There was another side to W.J. Blythe that was as much a part of what he was as were his ingratiating temperament, his devotion to his family, his prodigious appetite for hard work, and his determination to transcend the heartbreaking poverty into which he was born.
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THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER Winner of a screenwriting prize at Cannes, this warped blend of horror film and morality play from Yorgos Lanthimos ("The Lobster") stars Colin Farrell as a cardiologist and Barry Keoghan ("Dunkirk") as an ingratiating boy who knows something about his past.
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But the sounds in general — most new, though the lonely hook of "Wolves," from "The Life of Pablo" (2016), figured in the textures — were more ingratiating, with Latin dance beats, warm strings, and gentle singer-songwriterish guitar fingering that felt unconnected to the ostensibly intense story.
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In the author's view, this was the beginning of the end for New York — the beginning, as she puts it, of displacement for working-class New Yorkers as the city sought to save itself from further decline by ingratiating itself to the wealthy, here and abroad.
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When the lights go up, all is contemporary realism again as Yusuf (Chinaza Uche), an ingratiating nerd freshly graduated from New York University with a bachelor's in philosophy, interviews for a position at the shop with Xiomara (Flor De Liz Perez), who has eyes on becoming the store's manager.
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Since the grand opening and Trump's November win, the hotel's profile has been raised considerably, with new questions as to how the new administration will handle potential conflicts of interest if foreign leaders stay at the hotel as a way of ingratiating themselves with the highest levels of the American government.
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Instead, Fleischer's zippy pace and Rheese and Wernick's clever story-structure — which starts in the middle of the action, then fills in key details later, often via amusing little digressions — proves both disarming and ingratiating, if only because it shows how the filmmakers respect the audience's savviness about zombie conventions.
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But once he was on script, he was an excellent host, demonstrating the ingratiating personality and unassuming technique that have served him well on stage ("One Man, Two Guvnors," for which he won a Tony in 2012) and television (his current gig as host of CBS's "The Late Late Show").
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These are some of the basic narrative elements of Gioachino Rossini's 1813 comedic opera "L'Italiana in Algeri" ("The Italian Girl in Algiers"), which tells the story of Mustafa, a Turkish bey, or governor, who wants to jettison his wife, Elvira, and who complains that Muslim women are too ingratiating and submissive.
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Such ingratiating laughs are even more common on late-night TV. I compared the monologues from talk-show hosts on network television to the stand-up specials released on Netflix over the past few months, and found that one of the biggest differences is in the amount of performer laughter.
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The ingratiating five-man pop group are still a long way from 'N Sync's peak level of cultural influence and fame, but they're making some headway: Witness the millions of streams for their new single, "Trust Fund Baby," whose peppy melody is likely to appeal to fans of its writer, Ed Sheeran.
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Shot in washed-out tones, and written and directed by Gideon Raff ("Homeland"), the six-episode project casts Cohen as Eli Cohen, an Israeli Mossad agent who infiltrated the Syrian government, ingratiating himself enough to its fractious leaders to gain access to their secrets, albeit at a great cost to him and his family.
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Gotham Chamber Opera is no more, but "Charlie Parker's Yardbird," an ingratiating and fast-paced bio-opera about the jazz giant by the admired Swiss composer Daniel Schnyder (a proud Harlem resident) and the librettist Bridgette A. Wimberly, will be the first opera ever performed at the Apollo Theatre (April 2013 and April 3).
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To a few, such as Al Sharpton, the re-emergence of this 17-year-old case in the run-up to the film's release suggests a bid to blunt its impact; others whisper about commercial machinations meant to derail its Oscar prospects, which, in the faddish, ingratiating world of Hollywood, seemed strong after this year's #OscarsSoWhite outcry.
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Mr. Lampert was a Wall Street wunderkind, a Goldman Sachs intern whose intellect, ingratiating personality and prodigious work ethic attracted the patronage of some of America's most prominent and successful investors: Robert Rubin, Mr. Lampert's mentor at Goldman; Richard Rainwater, who invested for the billionaire Bass brothers before launching his own firm; and David Geffen, the billionaire entertainment mogul.
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It should not matter whether you believe, as I do, that Trump's ingratiating campaign posture toward Vladimir Putin's murderous anti-American regime was detestable, and that the Trump orbit's cajoling of WikiLeaks — a cat's paw of the GRU, Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency, that has done immense damage to U.S. intelligence and national security — was reprehensible.
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Compared to a Cusk or a Smith (Ali or Zadie), Atkinson might appear to be a sort of literary matron, an aesthetic conservative unwilling or unable to adapt to the evolution of her art; but hers is a profoundly feminist project, and you have to admire the deceptively ingratiating shapes in which that project is put forth.
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Michelangelo's guide is an ingratiating poet named Mesihi who chauffeurs him to what he calls the "Santa Sophia Basilica" — today known as the Hagia Sophia — and to outdoor markets where animals are sold alongside men and to an evening concert where Michelangelo is drawn into an infatuation with an androgynous dancer whose sex he is unable to decipher.
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Mr. Lampert was a Wall Street wunderkind, a Goldman Sachs intern whose intellect, ingratiating personality and prodigious work ethic attracted the patronage of some of America's most prominent and successful investors: Robert Rubin, Mr. Lampert's mentor at Goldman; Richard Rainwater, who invested for the billionaire Bass brothers before starting his own firm; and David Geffen, the billionaire entertainment mogul.
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On Friday, the New Yorker published an explosive exposé showing that the Media Lab accepted much more in donations from Epstein—who was known to be a convicted sex offender following a controversial 2008 plea bargain deal with prosecutors, but made a point of ingratiating himself with members of the scientific community with promises of funding—than it had publicly admitted.
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Now I very rarely get emotional at the movies but I did cry a tad watching the Avengers climax but not nearly as much as I cry inside every time I read yet more sycophancy and ingratiating copy from my peers about companies that have never made money, show no signs of making money anytime soon and who claim to have reinvented the wheel.
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He's lost his son, and Dolores is a natural sounding board for his grief, for a few reasons: His secrets are even safer with her than they'd be with a priest; she's an excellent listener, programmed to ask personal questions as a way of ingratiating herself to the guests; and, most of all, she knows something about loss because she experiences it every day.
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While he hasn't made a Netflix special, it's probably only a matter of time, since Young-White, who has had nearly as much success writing (the Netflix series "Big Mouth" and "American Vandal") as doing stand-up, has already developed the building blocks of a killer debut: sharp introductory jokes about his look and name (the stand-up version of a series pilot setting the scene), a clearly defined point of view that balances the prickly with the ingratiating, and an effortless star charisma that cannot be taught.
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Meanwhile, after so warmly reclaiming a creative stake in the film fortunes of the signature superhero that has essentially been Marvel Comics' equivalent of Mickey Mouse as a brand ambassador for the better part of six decades, fully integrating the character into the rich fabric of its MCU, and re-ingratiating him to audiences through the invaluable casting of Holland, Disney and Marvel stand to lose the one heavy-hitting headliner poised to hold the center together, now that Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), Captain America (Steve Rogers) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) have exited or are about to depart the multi-franchise.
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