No experience or ethics needed; blind loyalty and obsequiousness mandatory.
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What is it with President Trump and his obsequiousness to dictators?
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The bottom line is that Mr. Trump's obsequiousness has yielded few results.
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Americans are rightly upset over President Trump's obsequiousness toward Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
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We've already seen cabinet members discarding self-respect and sinking to grotesque obsequiousness.
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The crew, for their part, was polite and attentive without ever crossing into obsequiousness.
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While "the customer is always right" obsequiousness is endemic to capitalism, it's especially grotesque in gaming.
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All this obsequiousness paid off handsomely, as Trump backed the Saudis' vision of the Middle East.
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The ill-tempered Basil Fawlty ran his hotel with a blend of disdain and obsequiousness toward guests.
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The PM's obsequiousness or the fact that the US has apparently made Comic Book Guy their president. pic.twitter.
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Meanwhile, Republicans will continue their obsequiousness to Trump, who will continue his servility to Putin, leaving America exposed.
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We don't know, although Mr. Trump's creepy obsequiousness to Vladimir Putin makes it hard to dismiss these allegations.
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Mr. Trump's obsequiousness toward the Russian leader and his administration's confusing policy is emboldening both sides in Ukraine.
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There is a guilty pleasure in savoring the moments of mockery, since they usually puncture hypocrisy, obsequiousness or arrogance.
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In fact, what Congress is doing now is doubling-down on their obsequiousness to the president, ignoring their constitutional obligations.
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He's generally gone light on the obsequiousness to Trump and heavy on leadership, which has been a pleasant surprise. 5.
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"He did it in a wildly entertaining fashion," Mr. Gansa said, adding it wasn't typical Hollywood obsequiousness, which was refreshing.
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And his obsequiousness is his own best route to the Oval Office, which may very well be God's grand plan.
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Still, the passions of the moment, Mr. Durbin suggested, have caused some liberals to confuse responsible vetting and decorum with obsequiousness.
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But in her unwillingness to adopt the same obsequiousness as her peers, she seems to have gained a modicum of his respect.
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So he lunged for it, then demonstrated with his obsequiousness that doing good and doing right were never high on the agenda.
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" Rice writes that she "didn't have the patience or obsequiousness to run for office and was not keen on compromising my principles.
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His pious endorsement of an executive order related to anti-Semitism or any other matter reeks of nepotism and self-serving obsequiousness.
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In this production, the thin-skinned and raving king—who confuses flattery for fidelity, obsequiousness for respect—presides over an almost garishly golden court.
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He has no credibility with black people, other than the handful of black staffers and surrogates who routinely embarrass themselves in their blind obsequiousness.
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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.
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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.
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Both are popular with the young leader, so much so that they flout the "obsequiousness of other senior aides" when in his company, Reuters reports.
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"Given the extraordinary obsequiousness the president has shown in his relationship with Putin, it begs the question of whether there's more leverage than this," said Schiff.
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His obsequiousness and betrayal of American interests weren't the whispered allegations of unnamed sources (though he went ahead and dismissed such characterizations as "fake news" anyway).
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Doing so will require consistent obsequiousness -- which Abe seems willing to adopt as long as the rewards outweigh the political risks of being Trump's No. 1 fan.
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Meanwhile, the Emirati ruling classes get to have foot massages in their private booths as an army of Jeeves clones process their application at the speed of obsequiousness.
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But "is willing to defend the president's defenses of neo-Nazis" is an extraordinarily high bar for obsequiousness — virtually everyone under the sun criticized Trump on this score.
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And on a more personal level, Mr. Christie has been routinely taunted by Democrats and more than a few fellow Republicans for his perceived obsequiousness around Mr. Trump.
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And now here they were again, with all the same slobbiness and cowardice and obsequiousness and self-obsession, with all the same secret nobility, with nothing I needed.
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If you're a fan of the most meager of incremental progress, you probably love this—hence Friedman's obsequiousness, as a man who loves to trumpet baby steps as giant leaps.
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She doesn't stand out in a cluttered office that's a horror show of smiling obsequiousness and barely hidden contempt; she scarcely rates a genuine hello or a shred of interest.
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Assume for a moment that Trump's odd Russia behavior, including the obsequiousness toward Vladimir Putin and the routine eruptions against Mueller, was merely a way of baiting journalists for years.
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The president cannot allow flattery or obsequiousness — or talk of hotels and real estate — to distract from what Kim represents or to push the United States into more bad concessions.
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"Siri's 'female' obsequiousness — and the servility expressed by so many other digital assistants projected as young women — provides a powerful illustration of gender biases coded into technology products," the report found.
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But after five days of official obsequiousness towards the 80-year-old monarch and no sign of any direct Saudi aid money, Saturday's news on the islands overshadowed the visit's original purpose.
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Their behavior with him is sharply at variance with the obsequiousness of other senior aides, most of whom bow and hold their hands over their mouths when speaking to the young leader.
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Foreign policy should be driven by a frank discussion of what the U.S.'s vital national interests are, not a knee-jerk obsequiousness and nostalgia for institutions that may have outlived their usefulness.
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I can't think of another Republican whose journey from anti-Trump outrage to pro-Trump obsequiousness was quite so illogical or half as sad, and his conduct during the war over Kavanaugh completed it.
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There has been no sign that the United States has derived any benefit from Mr. Trump's obsequiousness toward Mr. Putin, though Mr. Trump himself has now at least gotten a shiny new soccer ball.
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For a good long while, Pruitt's emulation of the president and overwrought obsequiousness gave him favored-child status, and I thought that perhaps he was inoculated from punishment, just as he was immune from shame.
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While Law was an awkward presence at U.S. receptions for a few years after his resignation, at Italian events he was treated with the same effusive obsequiousness bestowed on all cardinals - something Law appeared to enjoy.
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Konstiantyn Marchenko, 46, a veteran who turned up at the protest against Mr. Zelensky's peace plan last Saturday, called the him a "traitor and a puppet" — not for obsequiousness to Mr. Trump, but to Mr. Putin.
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He was a sickening flatterer when it came to the nobility, and his obsequiousness reached full fever in the rarefied company of the Comtesse Grefullhe, "every snob's highest goal," as Benjamin Taylor wrote in Proust: The Search.
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He inflicted on the audience an extraordinary exercise in obsequiousness, arrogance and mawkishness: obsequiousness toward President Trump, whose name seemed to appear in every other sentence as some God-given fount of wisdom; arrogance toward the Europeans who were admonished, as vassals, to tear up the multilateral Iran nuclear deal, which is enshrined through a United Nations resolution in international law; and mawkishness over a visit to Auschwitz last week that was used to convey a message to Europeans that if they did not obey American orders on Iran they are de facto anti-Semites.
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Starting with the loan of a Princeton jacket, Tom Ripley, a men's room attendant played with ruthless obsequiousness by Matt Damon, begins his ascent of the social ladder — then murders his way up the rest of the rungs.
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For the first time, the mainstream media was openly speculating on whether there was a Kompromat held by Putin over Trump and if so, what kind -- little else could seemingly explain the President's obsequiousness beside his Russian counterpart.
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They strain to keep faith when the president rains scorn on our closest allies at summits in Canada and Belgium, and follows each performance with epic displays of obsequiousness toward a North Korean mass murderer and a Russian assassin.
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"Siri's 'female' obsequiousness – and the servility expressed by so many other digital assistants projected as young women – provides a powerful illustration of gender biases coded into technology products, pervasive in the technology sector and apparent in digital skills education," the report reads.
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The talk is a painful object study in what W.E.B. Du Bois dubbed the burden of "double consciousness" for African Americans—stressing the need for total social obsequiousness in the presence of white social power at the prospective cost of one's own life.
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The displays of obsequiousness are different from those during a mini-cult of Xi early last year, when songs in praise of the president circulated widely online and state-controlled media began gushing about "Papa Xi" and his glamorous wife, Peng Liyuan ("Mama Peng").
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By the time the show's first stasis ended and the episodes made their way across the Atlantic, sometime in the late 1990s, I had gone off to college, bringing with me a certain grudging patience for my own slobbiness, cowardice, obsequiousness, and self-obsession.
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Watching this, I was dismayed but also fascinated: Ratner's flaunting of the butler's obsequiousness; the brazen sharing of his fleshy nakedness with the viewer; the implication that his business concerns were so pressing that he couldn't stop their flow for anything, not even in order to dress himself — the scene was, no question, a gross power move.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Flatterers First, Then President Praises Himself": With all the fuss over the Public Theater's production of a Trumpish "Julius Caesar," there's another Shakespearean scene described on Tuesday's front page: the fawning members of President Trump's cabinet, publicly declaring, as the cameras are rolling, their love for the boss, and Mr. Trump nodding his approval as each one tries to outdo the obsequiousness of the last speaker's praises.
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Seeing this obsequiousness, the narrator-tsar orders the invasion of a distant country, which he is assured will submit to his mere reputation. Suddenly, the female figure of Truth appears, offering him clearsightedness and defending the rights of dissenters.
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In 2018, a Chinese journalist's eye-rolling became international news. She rolled her eyes while exasperated by another journalist's excessive obsequiousness towards a government official, and got censored as a result, with CNN reporting rumors that her press credentials were revoked because of the eye- rolling.
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"The place was stifling him, he said: the social obsequiousness, the medieval religiosity, the historical mendacities."Gurnah 2006. After independence and the subsequent revolution, life for all the characters is altered completely. Rashid misses the socio-political turmoil back home in his isolation as a university student in England; in fact, he never sees his ailing, tragic family again.
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The Chicago-born millionaire for whom Rupert Baxter works both before and after his reign of terror at Blandings, Mr Jevons treats Baxter with respect and even obsequiousness. Baxter regretfully leaves his service when Mr Jevons decides to return to his native land, but after a spell with the Duke of Dunstable, the efficient secretary returns to Jevons employ, in America.
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Aldao became the Federalist leader in the west of the country and imposed his authority over the governments of the neighboring provinces of San Juan and San Luis. After the death of Quiroga, Aldao adopted a posture of obsequiousness toward Rosas. By that time he was starting to show symptoms of madness, perhaps caused by syphilis or by a tumor on his forehead.
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Dickens creates humour out of character traits, such as Mr Dick's kite flying, James Maldon's insistent charm, Uriah Heep's obsequiousness, Betsey pounding David's room. There are in addition the employment of repetitive verbal phrases: "umble" of the same Heep, the "willin" of Barkis, the "lone lorn creetur" of Mrs Gummidge. Dickens also uses objects for a humorous purpose, like Traddles' skeletons, the secret box of Barkis, the image of Heep as a snake, and the metallic rigidity of Murdstone.
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In spring of the following year, he first openly showed his disgust at the behaviour of Nero and the obsequiousness of the senate after the emperor's letter justifying the murder of Agrippina had been read, and various motions congratulating Nero proposed. Senatorial procedure required each individual in turn to give his opinion on the motion, and Thrasea chose to walk out of the meeting 'since he could not say what he would, and would not say what he could' (Dio).Dio 62.15.2, cf.
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Since 2011, he has presented gardening show Love Your Garden. On 1 June 2012 he presented Elizabeth: Queen, Wife, Mother on ITV and was castigated the following day, for his obsequiousness, in a review by Sam Wollaston for The Guardian. In spring 2013 Titchmarsh was a reporter on BBC Two programme The Great British Winter. In December 2014 Titchmarsh presented a two-part series for ITV called The Queen's Garden that was filmed over a time period of one year.
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His books are first rate, both in Romanian and in English .... They are representative of what has effectively shaped up nowadays into the Romanian political science .... When reading and studying Vladimir Tismăneanu, one enters a new realm, where, most importantly, one experiences a novel approach to writing. He rejects the usage of empty and inordinate formulae. He saves the characteristic Romanian creative writing, with its inconsistency and amorphousness, only for the literary trash bin. He sports a jaunty style, utterly lacking any inhibition or obsequiousness.
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Kaminski (2007), 86 Ottavio's head is bowed, but his stern facial expression conveys that he is acting as protocol dictates, rather than with genuine diffidence. Nicholas Penny notes that "... at a Renaissance court bowing and scraping were usual. This affects modern attitudes to [the portrait], making the cordial respect of youth seem like the obsequiousness of a crafty courtier." Penny, Nicholas, 1991. "Measuring up", Review of Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait Painting in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries by Lorne Campbell, London Review of Books [Online] vol.
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When Erbakan went on an African tour, visiting Egypt, Nigeria, and Libya, his obsequiousness toward the Libyan leader, Muammer Gaddafi, angered even his own constituents back home. Erbakan appeared passive in the face of Gaddafi's reprimands that Turkey's Israel- friendly foreign policy was proof that the imperialists powers had placed it "under occupation" and that Turks had lost their "national will". Gaddafi also lambasted Turkey for its Kurdish policy during this joint press conference with Erbakan, greatly embarrassing the Turkish prime minister. This public browbeating did not play well at home.
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The bribery policy had been unpopular in Egypt for a long time, both because of its obsequiousness and because of the heavy tax burden that it entailed, but the annexation of Cyprus demonstrated its failure and enraged the people of Alexandria. The courtiers in Alexandria forced Ptolemy to step down from the thone and leave Egypt.Cassius Dio 39.12; Plutarch, Life of Pompey 49.7. He was replaced by his daughter Berenice IV, who ruled jointly with Cleopatra Tryphaena, who is probably Ptolemy XII's former wife but may be an otherwise unattested daughter.
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In 1728, Pope struck back against Welsted. In Peri Bathos, Welsted's obsequiousness is isolated and presented for derision, and in The Dunciad Pope accused him of writing poetry that flows like its inspiration: beer. In fact, Pope presented Welsted several places in The Dunciad as a laughable poetaster. Welsted attempted to fight back, and he teamed up with another of Pope's dunces, James Moore Smythe, for One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope in 1730, and in 1732 he wrote two attacks on Pope, Of Dulness and Scandal and Of False Fame.
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His long foresight and > ordering of the merest trifle without making scenes. The check-in his reign > put upon organized applause and every form of lip-service; his unceasing > watch over the needs of the empire and his stewardship of its resources; his > patience under criticism by individuals of such conduct. No superstitious > fear of divine powers nor with a man any courting of the public or > obsequiousness or cultivation of popular favour, but temperance in all > things and firmness; nowhere want of taste or search for novelty.Meditations > 1.16, tr. Farquharson.
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The Turkish president Abdullah Gül called the Italian president Giorgio Napolitano to express his grief. A commentary in Today's Zaman, while expressing sadness for the woman's death, criticised the supposed obsequiousness of Turkish politicians to "foreigners" in the Bacca case, writing: "Let's face it, if Pippa were a Turk, some people would feel free to say that a hitchhiking woman deserves to be raped." The columnist argued that local problems such as violence against women should be addressed regardless of Turkey's concern for being shamed before foreigners. Hürriyet, a top selling Turkish newspaper, printed an article on the murder entitled "We are ashamed".
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Baxter is an efficient and practical individual. He likes order, and despises Lord Emsworth's fuzzy mind and lifestyle. He sees himself as a man destined to bring order to Blandings, and is proud of his position as de facto ruler of one of England's largest houses. It is this pride which brings him back time and again to Blandings, despite the better pay and working conditions available to him in the household of Mr J. Horace Jevons, his employer before and after his reigns at Blandings, a man who treats him with the respect, and even obsequiousness, he demands; Mr Jevons' financial advice also allows Baxter to treble his savings.
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