And Cohen is not the most wretched sycophant in political history.
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Still, there is a distinction between being a unifier and a sycophant.
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Most of the people around Trump seem to be in the sycophant mold.
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" Another source was more harsh: "Emil is the chief sycophant officer to Travis.
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Mr. Trump's nominee to replace him is likely to be a pliant sycophant.
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And also, anti-Trump deep state sycophant Peter Strzok, he is in huge trouble.
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Here, we get Robin as a one-note joke, the eternal chipper kid sycophant.
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"Secretary of State Pompeo will be remembered as a political flunky sycophant," said Rep.
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In fact, "The Mooch" himself was a Trump critic before he became a sycophant.
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"Several months later, conservative columnist George Will would call Pence a 'sycophant poodle,' " she continues.
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And meanwhile, the former CIA director, deep state sycophant, John Brennan, is calling President Trump paranoid.
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And on Friday, Isaacs revealed his careful construction of the notorious Death Eater and Voldemort sycophant.
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There's already one bloviating, egomaniacal, too-powerful, sycophant-encouraging, id and idiocy-inducing jerkface on Twitter.
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Badison, with her ridiculous lines like "this color doesn't bleed," just looks like a cuckoo sycophant.
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Pence on a personal and policy level made Kaine look like a rambling, insecure Clinton sycophant.
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He understands that if you want to be the Svengali, you have to play the sycophant.
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"He was doing that because Nixon appointed a sycophant, L. Patrick Gray, as FBI director," Charles explains.
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" But he called Mr. Assange "a sycophant for Russia," who "leaks, steals data and compromises national security.
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And I said to the President this morning, I can't afford to be a sycophant to you, sir.
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To the former, she was a narcissistic sycophant who tarnished the most effective liberal president since Lyndon Johnson.
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Finally, a senator willing to do what he believes is best for the country, not a party sycophant.
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You got John Brennan who pretends to be the CIA director but he is Hillary Clinton lackey and sycophant.
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Despite the distance between sycophant and target provided by new media, the essentials of the exchange are the same.
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As a result, we have an administration largely made up of the underqualified, the ethically challenged and the sycophant set.
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He wasn't a right-wing extremist like Stephen Bannon, a sycophant like Kellyanne Conway, or a clown like Sean Spicer.
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The best moments in the early episodes of Season 3 involve Tony Hale's quietly raging performance as Gary, the sycophant's sycophant.
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A former White House official referred to Pompeo as a "sycophant" who challenges Trump even less than Vice President Mike Pence.
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And even deep states sycophant-turn-CNN fake news pundit Jim Clapper, he&aposs now ready for Mueller to wrap all this up.
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The festival organizers (which, to their later regret, peripherally included the fight's promoter and future Trump sycophant Don King) decided to carry on.
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Cesar Sayoc, by all appearances a Trump sycophant, is accused of sending explosive devices through the mail, including three to my workplace, CNN.
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It's not a problem that Pence is a sycophant in chief, perhaps the greatest bootlicker to take up residence at the Naval Observatory.
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But as an expression of Trump's actual thinking — and I fear that's what it is — it's just another example of his serious sycophant problem.
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"We don't live in a banana republic where the central bank is run by some spineless sycophant, and that's a good thing," Cramer said.
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Bytes: • Jared's evolution as Richard's doting sycophant continues to be a delight, with Zach Woods playing him as chief loyalist, cheerleader and den mother.
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But unlike some things that make for badly run presidential campaigns, Trump's sycophant problem is also a sign that he'd make a bad president.
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WASHINGTON — Stephen Moore said he would not be a "sycophant" for President Trump if nominated and confirmed for a seat on the Federal Reserve.
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Trump's full cabinet finally met, and it was an eerie affair, primarily because it played out like the pilot episode of America's Next Top Sycophant.
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Moore made his remarks in an interview with The New York Times, noting he is not a "dove" or a "sycophant" for President Donald Trump.
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After calling the WikiLeaks founder "a sycophant for Russia" yesterday, the Speaker of the House doubled down on his hometown WTAQ's Jerry Bader Show this morning:
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With all due respect to the immortal Greeks, who created the word "sycophant" for self-seeking flatterers like the attorney general, perhaps we need an update.
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The golf establishment tends to remember Roberts as a sour figure, a charmless tyrant, and a canny sycophant—the bad cop to the faultless Bobby Jones.
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If you don't know who Bill Mitchell is, he's the too-good-to-be-true Trump sycophant who tweets things like: A poll is a hypothesis.
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Corden got real with Kanye, knowing that if acted as a sycophant on the phone, he'd come off as two-faced when Kim inevitably exposed him on Snapchat.
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He has been the "worst sycophant of all time," as he put it at his favorite Omaha bar and grill this summer, parroting the usual flak he takes.
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Completing a journey from Trump sycophant to antagonist, Emmanuel Macron defended his diagnosis of NATO's "brain death" — and cast Trump into the unexpected position of defending the alliance.
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" Earlier in the novel, as Hark's floundering sycophant Fraz Penzig sits in a hospital with a comatose daughter and an eroding marriage, his wife tells him, "No jokes, Fraz.
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It has led to an enviable career, an unenviable amount of scorn, and accusations of being, well, a sycophant who clings to one of the world's most famous athletes.
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Now, after trashing the idea of the Mueller investigation in 2017, Whitaker — flush with power — is the oddball sycophant charged with ensuring that Robert Mueller can finish his report.
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Mattis hasn't met Tillerson's fate even though he's not a Trump sycophant, and he famously refused to praise Trump during the administration's first North Korean propaganda-like Cabinet meeting.
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It's sort of like of Rihanna's "Diamonds" — but where that single found Rihanna praising herself and her man for their mutual awesomeness, on "Rare," Gwen comes off like a sycophant.
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Ben's father, a sniveling sycophant marvelously played by comedian Rob Corddry, hires on as Gundy's protection and starts defending the tyrant once he realizes how much he has to gain.
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And within minutes of his speech in the Judiciary Committee, Graham was being condemned by Democrats on Twitter and in other forms of social media as a transparent Trump sycophant.
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That's exactly what a growing chorus of voices in pro-Trump media are arguing that he should do, with former House Speaker and leading Trump sycophant Newt Gingrich leading the charge.
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After Mr. Cuomo spoke on Roosevelt Island, Mr. de Blasio also delivered a speech praising Mr. Bloomberg, after first saying that he was not known as a "sycophant" of the former mayor.
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He likely wants Sessions gone so he can appoint an even bigger sycophant who will help him evade questions he doesn't want to answer and safeguard information he doesn't want to come out.
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"Steven Mnuchin may be the greatest sycophant in Cabinet history," Mr. Summers wrote in a September tweet after Mr. Mnuchin defended Mr. Trump's position about professional football players kneeling during the national anthem.
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And I said to the president this morning, I can't afford to be a sycophant, sir, I have to talk to you as a friend so I can help you with this problem.
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But his critics described him as a near-sycophant who was unable to steer Trump back on message as the candidate engaged with his latest foe on Twitter or waded into yet another controversy.
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But he has not mastered any part of this equation, nor does he command the presence of Trump, and what you are eventually left with is a sycophant too deluded to even properly despise.
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And over the weekend, look at that guy there, you see him, well, his hair is a little grayer now, but that&aposs Clinton sycophant turned so- called journalist for ABC News, Georgie Stephanopoulos.
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Vice President Mike Pence looks every bit the sycophant as he praises Trump at every turn, and Press Secretary Sarah Sanders displays a classic us-against-the-world cult attitude as she insults reporters.
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Just as Trump's television show blended roles usually kept separate, fusing the self-congratulatory patter of the talk show host with the performed character of the boss, Trump collapses the roles of sycophant and target.
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" The fact that Mnuchin waded into the latter controversy, so far outside of the purview of the Treasury Department, led former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers to call Mnuchin on Twitter "the greatest sycophant in Cabinet history.
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Setting aside for the moment how much the (admitted germophobe) President values abject loyalty -- Pence is a cringe-worthy sycophant --- it's hard to imagine a worse choice for a job that requires respect for public health.
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"Silence on Ukraine, sycophant to Trump, continues to demoralize the State Department, lack of support for his ambassadors," wrote Isabelle Stillger, launching off in a very long list of complaints about Pompeo's failure to … pretty much everything.
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The great curse of Republicans in the midterm elections is that on issue after issue, many of them appear to be playing the role of Fredo Corleone, the hapless, duplicitous and incompetent sycophant in the original Godfather.
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Banter replaces any real form of an interview, and co-host Mika Brzezinski treats him more like a loveable child who occasionally says something raucous rather than a deranged sycophant who is currently leading the GOP field.
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On Tuesday night, Fox News host Sean Hannity went on a lengthy rant accusing Acosta of being a "far-left, grandstanding, sycophant left-winger" — as if that justifies preventing him from having access to the White House.
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No matter who wrote the final draft, though, the underlying message is clear: Trump has entrusted his health to a sycophant who will say whatever Trump tells him to say however Trump tells him to say it.
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"Says the idiot nobody knows of who will always be known as nothing more than a Trump sycophant spewing lies to keep a corrupt President in power," Avenatti, once considered as a possible 85033 Democratic challenger, shot back.
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From the outset, Americans are left with a choice: Accept the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community or that of the autocratic Russian government and its Russian "sycophant" Julian Assange, as House Speaker Paul Ryan has dubbed him.
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We went back and forth: "Why would I want to come all the way out there?" she had asked (knowing very well why); "Because it would mean so much to me," I had replied (happy to be a sycophant).
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Photo: GettyAs President Trump continues to weigh a replacement for former FBI Director James Comey—whom he abruptly fired last week—the lawmakers who oversee the bureau's authority are growing increasingly concerned that a White House sycophant might top the list.
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In the days after Weigel's story, Sean Hannity, the Fox News host who has turned into a Donald Trump sycophant, devoted a whole series of segments to Clinton's health, bringing on doctors and asking them if Clinton was having seizures.
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" Pence has taken care to appear extraordinarily loyal to Trump, so much so that Joel K. Goldstein, a historian and an expert on Vice-Presidents who teaches law at St. Louis University, refers to him as the "Sycophant-in-Chief.
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Former US officials have painted a portrait of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a sycophant towards President Donald Trump, whose key priority is to maintain Trump's trust and confidence in him, according to a New Yorker profile published Monday.
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Moore, a conservative economic commentator and a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the Times he is not a "sycophant for Trump" or "a dove" on monetary policy, a reference to Fed officials who favor an easier policy that supports economic growth.
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But the noir-loving sycophant in me wanted more refreshingly twisted plot developments—something as audacious as a room full of people being directed to hang themselves followed by a young woman stabbing herself in the neck with a broken wine glass.
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"The irony here is that Mulvaney is exactly the kind of chief of staff Trump wanted, who was a sycophant and was a lap dog, and there's no indication that Meadows will be any different because that's the way Trump operates," said Whipple.
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He vowed to "kill all the leakers," especially Mr. Priebus, accusing Mr. Priebus of — horrors — leaking the fact that Mr. Trump and the first lady had dinner with the former Fox News boss Bill Shine and Sean Hannity, Fox talker and Trump sycophant.
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Flanked by a smarmy sycophant (how much I miss Prig David Spade!), Seedling doggedly pursues the Conehead family in a parody of The Fugitive, hunting Beldar not because he's simply an extraterrestrial, but because he's an extraterrestrial who dared to illegally work in the United States.
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The retired soon-to-be-40 Mayweather went on the Stephen A. Sycophant Fun-Time Shouty Show and countered 28-year-old Conor McGregor's demands for a $100 million boxing purse with an offer of $63 million and a back-end percentage of the pay-per-view.
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Lindsey Graham, the sycophant of the century, called the whistle-blower's complaint a setup, as if it didn't rest on the sturdy foundation of a reconstructed transcript — released by the White House — that shows Trump imploring a foreign leader to do political dirty work for him.
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Do we really want to challenge Deb FischerDebra (Deb) Strobel FischerThe 23 Republicans who opposed Trump-backed budget deal Landmark US-Russia arms control treaty poised for final blow GOP senator introduces bill banning 'addictive' social media features MORE in Nebraska because she isn't a steady sycophant?
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She's so smart and genuinely, genuinely a lovely human being," he adds, pointing out that even though he sounds "like some sycophant," he thinks that Rhimes, her producing partner Betsy Blues and Station 19 creator Stacy McKee "are people who believe in using their superpowers to do good in the world.
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In a paltry cluster of sentences, his supposed doctor pronounced his health "astonishingly excellent," a diagnostic term heretofore absent from the medical literature, and that same sycophant — I mean doctor — demonstrated impressive retroactive omniscience, saying that he could "state unequivocally" that no American president had been in shape as splendiferous as Trump's.
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In podcasts, blog posts, op-eds and on Twitter, Mr. Summers, the former president of Harvard and a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, has accused Mr. Mnuchin of damaging the credibility of Treasury by making "irresponsible" economic assessments of the administration's tax plan and acting as a "sycophant" to President Trump.
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"Not to be outdone, supplement salesman and Trump sycophant Alex Jones has pushed the narrative that the entire event was staged—a ludicrous and stunningly callous tactic he first employed to "explain" the Sandy Hook massacre—saying during his show on Sunday that he believes many of the Nazis in attendance were "Jewish actors.
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The orator is a sycophant, a parasite; at the other end of the spectrum is the speaker of these brilliant lines from "The Ark by 'Scratch,' " a reggae Noah—probably Lee (Scratch) Perry, the Jamaican performer—implored by a "genie" to "build a studio" from cultural salvage and scrap: The genie says build a studio.
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It was, instead, half Trump campaign rally, led by sycophant Republican senators chanting "Four more years," and half Trump reality TV show, with the orange-haired P.T. Barnum using props in the gallery to stage every stunt he could imagine – all of it punctuated by a pack of lies, too many to keep track of, from the podium.
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Prominent lawmakers such as Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, and Larry Summers, a former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, have called Mr. Mnuchin a sycophant and a liar for defending Mr. Trump and for arguing in favor of the Republican tax plan, saying it won't benefit the rich.
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In Cohen's case, this week saw his 180-degree turn from sycophant to saboteur by implicating President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE directly in his "allocution" as a newly confessed felon.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — The Sword of Damocles, the title of artist Felix R. Cid's show at Garis & Hahn, is the story of a sycophant in the court of Dionysius II. Damocles's fascination with power leads the king to exchange places with the courtier for one day but with a twist: Damocles must sit on the king's throne while a sword, suspended at the pommel by a single strand of horse hair, hangs above his head.
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Sycophants are better illustrated through the satires of Aristophanes. In The Acharnians, a Megarian attempting to sell his daughters is confronted by a sycophant who accuses him of illegally attempting to sell foreign goods; and a Boeotian purchases a sycophant as a typical Athenian product that he cannot obtain at home. A sycophant appears as a character in The Birds. One of his lost plays had, as its principal theme, an attack against a sycophant.
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Soon, the sycophant population on Sycophant Run hears through the Lore Coil that the sycophant secret has been revealed. Meanwhile, Tim Tuttle meets Dennis and Ezra. Dennis is already being controlled by Sabine, and gives Tim a wristband which poisons Tim with the influence of Sabine. The trio carjacks a van and then starts driving across the U.S. to get to the Atlantic Ocean.
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He acquires a blond sycophant named Swig, and his ability is yet to be found.
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In Wealth, the character, Sycophant, defends his role as a necessity in supporting the laws and preventing wrongdoing.
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Sycophant Records was a Nottingham based Independent label that published its first vinyl single release in 1990 for a local band called Meatfly. This release followed with more signings and releases from the likes of Force Fed, Skink, Pitchshifter, and the Scum Pups, to name but a few. Sycophant RecordsDave Morrison "SELECT" April 1992, p.75 was no stranger to chart success as it was while with Sycophant Records, the Leicester-based band Scum Pups released their first 'mini' album Babykill, which held No.17 in the Melody Maker indie album charts, during March 1992.
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Harlan (voiced by Howard Morris) is Mr. Cogswell's sycophant right-hand man. His name may be a nod to science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison.
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The word sycophant comes from the Ancient Greek word συκοφάντης (sykophántēs), meaning "one who shows or reveals figs"; though there is no unequivocal explanation as to the reason why sycophants in Ancient Greece were so called, one explanation is that the sycophant, by making false accusations, insulted the defendant in a manner analogous to making the fig sign."According to C. Sittl (Die Gebdrden der Griechen und Romer, Leipzig, 1890) the word refers to an obscene gesture of phallic significance (see also A. B. Cook in Classical Review, August 1907), called "showing the fig" (faire la figue, far la fica or le fiche), originally prophylactic in character. Such gesture, directed towards an inoffensive person, became an insult, and the word sycophant might imply one who insulted another by bringing a frivolous or malicious accusation against him." Chisolm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sycophant".
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He is a wisecracking sycophant from Foo, sent to look after Leven, who is his burn. Clover's last burn was Antsel, who dies in the beginning of the first book. The sycophant stays around Leven, hiding for fourteen years, until Leven finally spots him under his bed. He constantly tries to find a nickname for Leven since Winter stole his original, "Lev", (many of which include Chief, Dog, or Big Man).
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Santino Deng Teng was a Sudanese politician. Per historian Robert O. Collins, he was "a token southern minister and reliable sycophant in every government from 1954 to 1964".
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He is a wise-cracking sycophant from Foo, sent by the nit Antsel to look after Leven, who becomes his burn. He constantly tries to find a nickname for Leven (many of which include Chief and Big Man), as Winter calls Leven Lev. Clover has the power to turn invisible with his cloak (which also carries his secret void), and as a sycophant there is only one way that he can die, but only the sycophants and Lev know what that is.
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CED 1991, pp. 203 & 1521 ; brown bread : Dead (Cockney rhyming slang).Green 1999, p. 154. ; brown-tongue : Sycophant, toady or someone who attempts to curry favour with another (from the idea of licking another's backside).Green 1999, p. 155.
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Rainn Wilson was cast as power- hungry sycophant Dwight Schrute, and he watched every episode of the British series before he auditioned.Wilson, Rainn (Actor). 2005. "Pilot" [Commentary track], The Office Season One (U.S./NBC Version) [DVD], Los Angeles, CA: Universal.
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Uriah Heep, from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, is synonymous with sycophancy The word "sycophant" entered the English and French languages in the mid-16th century, and originally had the same meaning in English and French (sycophante) as in Greek, a false accuser. Today, in Greek and French it retains the original meaning. The meaning in English has changed over time, however, and came to mean an insincere flatterer. The common thread in the older and current meanings is that the sycophant is in both instances portrayed as a kind of parasite, speaking falsely and insincerely in the accusation or the flattery for gain.
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Agnonides (Gr. , fl. 4th century BC) was an ancient Athenian demagogue and sycophant, a contemporary of Theophrastus and Phocion. The former was accused by Agnonides of impiety, but was acquitted by the Areopagus, and Theophrastus might have ruined his accuser had he been less generous.
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The book was released September 29, 2009. Leven, Winter, Geth, and Clover travel towards the gateway through Sycophant Run. And the love for Leven from Winter is revealed when they accidentally let a longing lose and she wants to be with him. But fate has other plans for Leven.
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But Itō Kashitaro's excellence in academics and martial arts was not ignored by Kondō, no matter how fond he was of his sycophant, Takeda. Takeda was left off an 1866 business trip to Hiroshima in favor of the other military adviser. In desperation, he sought whatever allies he could.
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This led to a strong teenage fanbase with a reputation for enjoying stage diving and moshing at their gigs. The band quickly gathered a strong fanbase after being signed to Nottingham label Sycophant Records Dave Morrison "SELECT" April 1992 and began appearing with the likes of Fudge Tunnel, Silverfish and Daisy Chainsaw."INDICATOR" Vol.1, No.12, December 1992, p.6 It was while with Sycophant Records, the band released their first 'mini' album Babykill, which held No.17 in the Melody Maker indie album charts, during March 1992.Charts: "Melody Maker", 14 March 1992, page 28, IPC Media. The band signed with Stayfree Music in 1992 and embarked on touring with Crazyhead.
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Regulus and his colleague, Trio, entered their consulship on the Kalends of October, AD 31, and served until the end of the year.Fasti Ostienses, , 4531–4546, 5354, 5355. Their magistracy saw the downfall of Sejanus, the notorious plotter and sycophant of Tiberius, whom Regulus personally conducted to prison.Cassius Dio, lviii. 9.
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Sycophants are humanoid, furry creatures that dwell in a place called Sycophant Run. They are assigned to people in Foo to guide them. The people they serve are referred to as their "burns". Many Sycophants hang out around the entrance of Foo and fight over the upcoming "burns" coming out of the entrance.
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Lev's brown eyes burn gold whenever his gift kicks in. Leven is also an unnatural offing in the way that he can manipulate the future over great distances. He also knows the secret of how to kill a sycophant. He has now become The Want as his grandfather was the last Want.
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The Greek plays often combined in one single character the elements of the parasite and the sycophant, and the natural similarities of the two closely related types led to the shift in the meaning of the word. The sycophant in both meanings can also be viewed as two sides of the same coin: the same person currying one's favor by insincere flattery is also spreading false tales and accusations behind one's back. In Renaissance English, the word was used in both senses and meanings, that of the Greek informer, and the current sense of a "flattering parasite", with both being cast as enemies—not only of those they wrong, but also of the person or state that they ostensibly serve.
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He referred to Willkie as a "sycophant for the rich and famous".Gugin (1997), p, 143 Willkie never responded to Minton's taunts, leaving Minton's opponent in the Senate race, Raymond E. Willis, to respond to Minton's charges. Willis had run for the Senate two years earlier but was defeated by Democrat Frederick Van Nuys.
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9 and PlutarchPlutarch, De adulat. et amic. discrim. p. 60 describe him as a sycophant, one of the basest flatterers of the king. Curtius calls him "the composer of the worst poems after Choerilus" ("pessimorum carminum post Choerilum conditor"), which probably refers rather to their obsequious, flattering character than to their worth as poetry.
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In the sense that a poetaster is a pretended poet, John Marston coined the term parasitaster, for one who pretends to be a parasite or sycophant, in his play Parasitaster, or The Fawn (1604). Later in the 17th century (the earliest cited use is from 1684) appeared the term criticaster for an inferior and pretentious critic.
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Xu Shao's granduncle was Xu Jing (許敬). Xu Jing's son was Xu Xun (許訓). Xu Xun's son, Xu Xiang (許相), became one of the Three Ducal Ministers by flattering the court eunuchs. Xu Xiang invited Xu Shao to meet him numerous times, but Xu Shao despised him for being a sycophant and refused to see him.
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Grey appointed Bell to the Legislative Council of the New Munster Province. Bell's reputation suffered considerably from his association with the Governor, however, and many thought of him as a time-server and a sycophant. Bell eventually returned to his company post in Nelson, although the New Zealand Company did not survive long after Wakefield's death.
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Madison: Tiffany's friend. She is described as 'square' instead of petite, and not too bright. She is more of a sycophant than a true friend of Tiffany's, laughing loudly at all of Tiffany's quips and attempts to imitate her, up to and including smoking (despite how the cigarettes make her sick enough to vomit). Tiffany calls her 'Mad-One'.
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Raja Vikramarka (Chiranjeevi) is the prince of Skanda Dweepam, a small kingdom. As he is a prince, he is not allowed to live his own free life. His father Raja Bhupathi (Satyanarayana) arranges his marriage with another kingdom's princess. She turns out to be nothing more than a sycophant, one without a brain or spine of her own.
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Minimus P.U. (Len Carlson in seasons 1-2, Dwayne Hill in Mission: Earth) is a biogenetically engineered assistant for Maximus (P.U. is stated to stand for "Portable Underling"). Minimus can withstand "extremely high" levels of "verbal and physical abuse" from Maximus. Minimus's "swivel- head" feature allows him to switch between his two faces, one being a sycophant, the other a grumbler.
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In modern English, sycophant denotes an "insincere flatterer" and is used to refer to someone practicing sycophancy (i.e. insincere flattery to gain advantage). The word has its origin in the legal system of Classical Athens. Most legal cases of the time were brought by private litigants as there was no police force and only a limited number of officially appointed public prosecutors.
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S./NBC Version) [DVD], Los Angeles, CA: Universal. Rainn Wilson, who was cast as the power-hungry sycophant Dwight Schrute, watched every episode of the series before he auditioned. Wilson had originally auditioned for Michael, a performance he described as a "terrible Ricky Gervais impersonation"; however, the casting directors liked his audition as Dwight much more and hired him for the role.Wilson, Rainn (Actor). 2005.
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To make matters worse, his opposition was deemed to be offensive to the emperor. Then the latter launched a scathing attack on him. Later, Xu submitted a memorial that was probably inappropriate for such an issue: "Your Majesty, your own sagacious counsels overwhelmingly exceeded my discernment ()." The emperor said such an action was ingratiating, and ordered the erection of a "Monument of the Sycophant ()" to ridicule him.
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Efforts were made to discourage or suppress sycophants, including imposing fines on litigants who failed to obtain at least one fifth of the jury's votes, or for abandoning a case after it had begun (as would occur if the sycophant was bribed to drop the matter), and authorizing the prosecution of men for being sycophants. Statutes of Limitation were specifically adopted to try to prevent sycophancy.
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West now records solo as Mr. C and collaborates as the Sycophant Slags with Francis Harris aka Adultnapper, as the Indigo Kidz with Affie Yusuf, with [a]pendics.shuffle and with Omid 16b. He has released on Poker Flat, Wagon Repair Records, Get Physical Music and Adjunct Audio. He has released a solo EP titled "I'm gonna Give You Some" and the albums Smell The Coffee and Incidents.
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Blackstone's Commentaries repeats this story, but adds an additional take—that there were laws making it a capital offense to break into a garden and steal figs, and that the law was so odious that informers were given the name sycophants. A different explanation of the origin of the term by Shadwell was that the sycophant refers to the manner in which figs are harvested, by shaking the tree and revealing the fruit hidden among the leaves. The sycophant, by making false accusations, makes the accused yield up their fruit. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition listed these and other explanations, including that the making of false accusations was an insult to the accused in the nature of "showing the fig", an "obscene gesture of phallic significance" or, alternatively that the false charges were often so insubstantial as to not amount to the worth of a fig.
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Each character demonstrates various vices and foibles: The prince, devious, murderous, and hypocritical, The princess is self-centered, adulterous, naive, and foolishly religious. Bernardo (a Da Vinci type), a sycophant who shows the dark side of science, diverting his art and skill for killing. The prince's daughter and her lover are also naive and foolish. Don Ricardo is insouciant, treacherous, a deceiver, glutton, and lover of the princess.
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Kimtilal is neither a fool nor a sycophant. He points out that it was Kamini (herself a headstrong girl) who brought forth the proposal; that he (Kimtilal) was not aware of it; and that if the children have decided upon each other, then the parents had best give it their blessing. Sampath, however, stands fast on his notion of status, insults Kimtilal and leaves. Kimtilal is now incensed.
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Harish and Kona Venkat went to Mumbai to listen to the story. RGV gave the narration and Harish told RGV that the script is very good, but won't suit Ravi teja. RGV told him – 'you came from Hyderabad after assisting a couple of films and passing judgment on my story like a pundit. But I like your guts because you spoke frankly without trying to be a sycophant.
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In contrast, low self-monitors appear to be less effective at using these tactics to obtain favorable images. In fact, the more low self-monitors used such tactics, the more likely they were to be seen as a sycophant, to be perceived as conceited, or to be perceived as egotistical by their work group colleagues.” High self-monitors are better able to use impression management tactics, such as ingratiation, than low self-monitors.
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History (MR: Ryŏksa) was the first long North Korean work to deal with Kim Il-sung during the Anti-Japanese struggle. Yan'an faction member Yi P'il-gyu expressed harsh criticism of History, aimed at Han's close relationship with Kim Il-sung: "Han Sŏl-ya — he should be killed. He deserves it even only for just one book — History. He is a very bad and harmful man; he is Kim Il Song's sycophant, a bootlicker".
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Her father wants her to settle down with her coworker Stephen (Josh Stamberg), a star lawyer at the firm who is smitten with her. She prefers Scott (Josh Randall), the tavern owner she meets in the first episode, of whom her father doesn't approve. Alex relies on the advice of her assistant Molly (Jillian Bach) and British neighbor Julian (Hugh Bonneville). Comedian Wayne Federman had a recurring role as office sycophant, Johnson.
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Pomponius, whom Cassius Dio describes as a sycophant of the emperor, managed to evade death at the hands of the Praetorian Guard.Suetonius, "The Life of Caligula", 17.Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History, 26, 29. He remained in office with Saturninus, probably until the Kalends of July; the two are still attested in office as of June 25, but two other pairs of consuls are known from the latter months of the year.
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Soon he spots a group of men on the ground searching for him. Miraculously, he meets a road mender out on the moor, and swaps places with him, sending the workman home. His disguise fools his pursuers, who pass him by. On the same road he meets, in a passing touring car, a Society sycophant whom he recognises from London and whom he forces to exchange clothes with him and drive him off the moor.
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Wells would later criticize Settle in her paper, Free Speech and called him a "sycophant" in her writings.McMurry, Linda O. To keep the waters troubled: The life of Ida B. Wells. Oxford University Press on Demand, 2000. p42-53, 182 This was in response to Settle and fellow black lawyer Thomas Cassels' representing members of Reverend Taylor Nightingale's church on charges that Nightingale's leadership was militant and incendiary "on the race question".
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Richard West (born 2 January 1965), predominantly known by the stage name Mr. C, is an English DJ, musician, actor and rapper. He also uses the monikers Sycophant Slags and Indigo Kidz. West is best known as the frontman for The Shamen during their most commercially successful era. He is also a house music DJ and was co-owner/co-founder of London's The End nightclub with Layo Paskin (of Layo & Bushwacka!).
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At work, Marc fulfills a variety of tasks for Wilhelmina, notably including abetting her schemes to take over MODE and, in the second season, Meade Publications. When he talks, she threatens him. On occasion, she promised to replace him with some other "curly-haired, effeminate sycophant," five of whom she claims to have on speed dial. Among the assignments Marc has fulfilled for Wilhelmina are hitting her so she could claim a jealous Claire Meade had her beaten.
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The 37th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C. at the Mayflower Hotel, on June 3–4, 1964, sponsored by the E.W. Scripps Company. 12-year-old 7th grader William Kerek, from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, sponsored by the Akron Beacon Journal, won the competition by correctly spelling the word "sycophant". 13-year-old 8th grader Robert Mathews of Columbus, Ohio took second place, and David Labell of Greensboro, North Carolina was third.Howard, Doyle (1 June 1964).
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Harris was also a co-star, alongside Charles Nelson Reilly, in the series Uncle Croc's Block, in which Harris and Reilly portrayed malcontents producing a children's television show. Harris played the director and Reilly the titular host, Uncle Croc. In the cartoon Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, he played lackey and sycophant to the main villain. Harris also provided the voice of the Cylon character Lucifer, an antagonist on the original 1978 ABC version of Battlestar Galactica.
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Meanwhile, Guru Bahula wanted to find out what kind of devils these Leyaks are, so he chants a mantra and sees Guyang, Rangda's sycophant taking two sheep of Bali to Rangda to be killed. Rangda reveals that after three days, she is going to destroy Agung Mountain to destroy Barong, the supreme God of Bali. She forms electrifying rays which hit Bahula on the other side, making him unconscious. Rangda sends Rarung, a demon to kill Bheem and Arjun.
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Lysias, by Jean Dedieu The traditional view is that the opprobrium against sycophants was attached to the bringing of an unjustified complaint, hoping either to obtain the payment for a successful case, or to blackmail the defendant into paying a bribe to drop the case. Other scholars have suggested that the sycophant, rather than being disparaged for being motivated by profit, was instead viewed as a vexatious litigant who was over-eager to prosecute, and who had no personal stake in the underlying dispute, but brings up old charges unrelated to himself long after the event. Sycophants included those who profited from using their position as citizens for profit. For instance, one could hire a sycophant to bring a charge against one's enemies, or to take a wide variety of actions of an official nature with the authorities, including introducing decrees, acting as an advocate or a witness, bribing ecclesiastical or civil authorities and juries, or other questionable things, with which one did not want to be personally associated.
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Sarge Sarge is the stern and regimented leader of the Red Team who speaks with both a pirate accent and a cockney accent. Simon Simon (Simmons) is the weak-kneed sycophant with a shrill voice and a bad memory. Orangish Guy Whose Name I Really Don't Remember Orangish Guy Whose Name I Really Don't Remember (Grif) is the drunk whose name is always forgotten or mispronounced. Unlike his real Self Orangish Guy Whose Name I Really Don't Remember armor colour is yellow.
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Leven comes into the world soon after his father "dies" in a car accident. His mother passes away a few minutes after giving birth to him. His mother's half- sister, Addy Graph, reluctantly takes him into her care but allows him to be bullied by her husband, supplying him only with Wonder Wipes T-shirts from her current job. Leven is a young teen of fourteen living in Oklahoma when he finds Clover the Sycophant under his bed on the porch.
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Nalankilli forms the subject of no fewer than fourteen poems in Purananuru. These poems suggest that Nalankilli continued to enjoy a vague hegemony among the other Tamil kings as did by Karikala Chola (Purananuru – 31). The same poet Kovur Kilar, proving that he was not a sycophant, exhorts his patron to sue for peace instead of continuing the siege of Urayur against the rival Chola Nedunkilli. Kaverippatinam was Nalankilli’s capital (Purananuru – 30) and he enjoyed the benefits of its extensive trade.
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A disgusted Sesse is about to kill her when his Boatswain intervenes and stabs Martia to death—to save Sesse from the shame of killing his own child. The Neapolitans hail Sesse as their new king—but Sesse, never motivated by a taste for personal power, refuses, and instead nominates Ascanio, "warn'd by the example" of his uncle's fate to be a better ruler. The play's comic relief is supplied by Ferrant's jester Villio and by Castruccio, a court sycophant and parasite.
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In character, he usually acted as either the straight man or, occasionally, as an Imus sycophant or antagonist. McCord affected a neutral, reasoned tone and thus usually stayed out of Imus' line of fire, compared to the antics of the other cast members. He was responsible for developing the lines of questioning Imus would ask his guests, in addition to his anchor duties. Connell McShane took over the newsman position on May 9 and continued in the role until December 14, 2017.
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McCord's responsibilities on the Imus program included news reporting and writing comedy material for celebrity impersonators Larry Kenney and Rob Bartlett, as well as writing the questions host Don Imus would ask his guests during interviews.Don Imus leaves a trail of way more than dust by David Hinckley In character, he was usually the straight man and occasionally an Imus sycophant or antagonist. McCord announced his retirement in April 2011; his retirement became effective May 6.Hinckley, David (2011-04-14).
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Through her sycophant, the Machiavellian villain D'Avolos, she works upon her brother's feelings of jealousy and outrage until he precipitates the final scene's violence that leaves both lovers dead ("lovers," though the affair between Fernando and Bianca is in fact never consummated physically). Caraffa joins them by taking his own life. Love's Sacrifice, like most of Ford's plays, employs a three-level plot structure. The secondary plot yields a serio-comic treatment of the romances of Ferentes, a profligate courtier.
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He achieved stardom in 1963 with Jean Girault's film, Pouic-Pouic. This successful film guaranteed de Funès top billing in all of his subsequent films. At the age of 49, de Funès unexpectedly became a major star of international renown with the success of Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez. After their first successful collaboration, director Jean Girault perceived de Funès as the ideal actor to play the part of the scheming, opportunistic and sycophant gendarme; the first film, therefore, led to a series of six.
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Seneca appears in a fairly minor role in Henryk Sienkiewicz's 1896 novel Quo Vadis and was played by Nicholas Hannen in the 1951 film. In Robert Graves' 1934 book Claudius the God, the sequel novel to I, Claudius, Seneca is portrayed as an unbearable sycophant. He is shown as a flatterer who converts to Stoicism solely to appease Claudius' own ideology. The "Pumpkinification" (Apocolocyntosis) to Graves thus becomes an unbearable work of flattery to the loathsome Nero mocking a man that Seneca groveled to for years.
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1641) Caledons Complaint against infamous Libells. Or a censure past upon the Truth-betraying Sycophant, dareing (most ignobly) to streck at the honour of this deeply afflicted Nation upon pretence of the guilt of rebellion, in justice to be represt by the power of his Majesties armes. The poet's last publication was The Cry of Blood and of a Broken Covenant (1650) in 316 couplets. Mure also left a verse paraphrase of the Psalms, now incomplete and possibly never fully completed, and the unfinished prose Historie and Descent of the House of Rowallane.
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Soon after starting his career in North Korea, Han had become one of the earliest and most enthusiastic admirers of Kim Il-sung, with whom he had met in February 1946. Han acted in his writing as a "curator of the personality cult" of Kim Il-sung and was, in effect, the official sycophant of Kim. Indeed, the cult's beginnings can be traced as far back as 1946 when Han coined the appellation "our Sun" to describe Kim. Han was also the first to employ the phrase "Sun of the Nation" in referring to Kim.
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They are the shabby genteel people of the title, having dubious backgrounds but a small private income (inherited from Juliana's mother, who kept an inn) which allows them to give themselves airs as gentlefolk. Viscount Cinqbars: a young nobleman, still at university, whom Brandon had previously tutored on a continental tour. He admires Brandon as the sort of rakish seducer he fancies himself to be – though Cinqbars is both small and ugly and his only personal attraction is his money. Reverend Thomas Tufthunt:A 'tuft-hunter' was university slang for a toady or sycophant.
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When Chester decides to have a go of it, however, Sylvester finds himself at the little dog's mercy. By the cartoon's end, Spike and Chester have switched roles; Spike is the fawning sycophant, and Chester the smug prizefighter. The characters' second outing was in the short film Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954). Spike (here called "Alfie" and with an English accent) is once again after Sylvester, only this time it is Sylvester himself who pummels the poor pooch, thanks to a potion that transforms him into a feline monster.
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Vladimir of Staritsa (Pavel Kadochnikov) – Vladimir, Efrosinia's adult son with the mind of a child, is the main challenger to Ivan as tsar. He is Ivan's cousin but has none of his intelligence, forcefulness, or drive, and is content to drink and listen to his mother sing. Malyuta Skuratov (Mikhail Zharov) – Malyuta, Ivan's aide, is shown as one of his secret police. He is the one who suggests executing condemned men quickly to circumvent Philip's attempts at intercession, and is portrayed as sneaky, ruthless, and something of a sycophant.
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His bills for the repair of his ship at Calcutta were the excuse for an attack on him and for charging him with the amount. It was just the time of the general reform of the dockyards, and there was much suspicion in the air. It was also the case that Lord St. Vincent did not like Popham, and that Benjamin Tucker (1762–1829), secretary to the admiralty, who had been the admiral's secretary, was his creature and sycophant. However, Popham was not the man to be snuffed out without an effort.
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Božo (Gregurević), Iva's father, is a dimwitted entrepreneur who likes to bark out commands to the family members, but is a sycophant at work. He organises a family dinner to invite his business partner, a German named Hoffman (Menrad), to negotiate a big business deal, Iva's birthday being a handy excuse to do so. Darko (Svrtan), Iva's happy-go-lucky uncle, arrives and is fascinated by the camcorder. Nobody in the house can communicate with Hoffman as nobody speaks German, so Darko invites a friend, Nina (Prpić), who is purportedly a polyglot.
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At the play's conclusion, Hercules holds a symbolic Court of Cupid, in which all the foolish courtiers are arrested for their crimes against love and good sense. It is often assumed that Duke Gonzago was intended as an unflattering portrait of King James I, although it is not known whether the king took offence at this portrayal. A parasitaster is one who pretends to be a parasite or sycophant. Marston coined the term, following the example of Ben Jonson's coinage of the term poetaster for an inept and pretentious versifier, in his play of the same name.
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" By March 1833, Conway retired from the editorial chair and left Phillips, the junior editor, in sole charge. Phillips continued the paper's religious irreverence. In June 1833, impugning the efficacy of religion as a means of warding off cholera, he editorialized: "Religious devotion, we say, is particularly ridiculous, and not more ridiculous than injurious." Concerning those who attended church on special fast days to pray against the disease, he said that they might be divided into two classes, "the cunning but servile sycophant of popularity, and the simple dupes who swallow all, for orthodoxy, which their preachers and leaders tell them.
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Third is a sycophant in raptures at the thought of prosecuting victims on the wing. All of them are sent packing by the Pisthetaerus. Prometheus arrives next, sheltering under a parasol because he is an enemy of Zeus and he is trying not to be seen from the heavens. He has come with advice for Pisthetaerus: the Olympians are starving because men's offerings no longer reach them; they are desperate for a peace treaty but Pisthetaerus shouldn't negotiate with them until Zeus surrenders both his sceptre and his girlfriend, Sovereignty—she is the real power in Zeus's household.
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Bob Ford is portrayed as a fawning sycophant who is obsessed with Jesse's national celebrity and hopes to one day attain similar renown for himself. As Jesse faces increasing pressure from the authorities, he begins to suspect those around him of conspiring to betray him. Indeed, the Fords end up negotiating a deal with the governor of Missouri to capture or kill Jesse in exchange for the offered reward and exoneration for their previous crimes. Following Jesse's murder, the Fords receive the promised acquittal and a portion of the reward money, but find themselves almost unanimously detested and ostracized by the American public.
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To the psychologists Deborah and Mark Parker, Wormtongue serves as an archetypal sycophant, flatterer, liar, and manipulator. Tolkien scholars have noted that Wormtongue's interaction with Gandalf in Meduseld has an Old English counterpart in the epic poem Beowulf: the account is closely based on the hero Beowulf's dealings with Unferth in Heorot, where Unferth is King Hrothgar's "ambiguous" spokesman; Unferth is thoroughly discredited by Beowulf, as Wormtongue is by Gandalf. The critic George Clark describes Wormtongue's attitude as an example of presumption, behaving "as if he were already on the throne" of Rohan. Clark notes that Richard Purtill suggests that Tolkien is intentionally embodying the seven deadly sins in his characters.
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Travkin, a kind and unassuming food chemist from a small Russian town, spends his time developing new carbonated soft drinks, and also sings in an amateur choir. But when a dentist discovers that Travkin has 33 teeth, he suddenly becomes a national celebrity. He is brought to Moscow as a medical phenomenon and studied by famous scientists; it is proclaimed that Travkin's 33rd tooth is unique, and may connect him to extraterrestrials from Mars. Travkin struggles with his celebrity status, is briefly confined to a psychiatric institution due to slander of a jealous man, and has to fend off gold digging women, sycophant men, and journalists.
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Young J. Quincy Pennant is a brilliant but absent-minded scientist who is experimenting with an explosive method which directs a shock wave past obstructions to impact a distant target. He is sent to a rapidly growing "powder town" being developed around an arsenal and munitions factory where population growth has attracted criminals, foreign spies and saboteurs. Pennant is placed in a boarding house where he is the only male sharing with five female entertainers who work at a local casino run by gangsters. The rambuctious and physically imposing Jeems O'Shea, head of the powder monkeys at the factory, and his sycophant Billy arrive at the house.
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A great darkness is ascending from beneath the dirt as the true evil of Foo is unlocked and the Dearth rises above the soil. Assisted by Azure and an army of rants and other beings determined to merge Foo and Reality, the Dearth had brought war to the very borders of Sycophant Run. Normally the sycophants would have the situation well in hand, but with the secret of their mortality finally leaked, Clover and his breed are vulnerable as never before. Wreaking havoc in Reality, Terry and Addy are about to join forces with a one-time janitor and the angriest, most confused toothpick alive-Ezra.
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The king capriciously and ruthlessly sends Sforza to prison, and takes Alinda as his mistress; he mounts a false accusation of adultery against Eulalia, claiming that she and Sforza have had an affair. Gonzago's motive is to replace Eulalia as queen with Alinda — a move that Alinda herself supports: she quickly shows a ruthless ambition that matches the king's lack of principle. These events at court are observed and commented upon by two courtiers, Lodovico and Horatio, who embody two contrasting responses. Lodovico is faithful and sincere, while Horatio is a sycophant who supports the king in whatever the king does, no matter how contemptible.
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Many of Model's fellow officers considered him a Nazi. He frequently harangued his troops to have faith in the Führer and uphold the virtues of National Socialism. He accepted the offer of SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein to appoint a Waffen-SS officer as his adjutant at Army Group North in 1944, after the Heerespersonalamt had refused him an adjutant, and filled the Nationalsozialistischer Führungsoffizier (NSFO, essentially a Nazi political commissar) post at Army Group B that had been vacant before his arrival. His habit of parroting the Führer's orders caused him to be viewed as a sycophant, even if he often undermined or ignored those orders in practice.
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Smithers made his first appearance in "Homer's Odyssey", which was the third episode of the first season, although he can be heard over a speaker in The Simpsons series premiere "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire BBC. Retrieved March 2, 2007 In his first visual appearance in "Homer's Odyssey", Smithers was mistakenly animated with the wrong color and was made darker than most characters by Gyorgyi Peluce, the color stylist. David Silverman has claimed that Smithers was always intended to be "Mr Burns' white sycophant", and the staff thought it "would be a bad idea to have a black subservient character" and so switched him to his intended color for his next episode.
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Recto was defeated in the election and never became president. Since his time, subsequent administrations practiced with fidelity and enthusiasm what he called "subservience and colonial mentality," most of them with greed and rapacious intents. To the judgment of Recto and many political gurus, colonial mentality towards America by the sycophant Philippine government, and its evil twin—servility to the almighty dollar, are among the major contributories to graft and corruption, which in turn have paralyzed the nation's economy.Citation needed In 1991, Philippine president Corazon Aquino initially fought for the continuation of the Republic of the Philippines - U.S Bases Treaty, but ultimately acquiesced to the will of the people, and the Philippine Senate rejected its renewal.
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McLeod argues that the best explanation for Định's continued insurgency was that the Confucian tradition allows for a loyal official to disobey his sovereign without calling the sovereign's authority into question. This is termed a tránh thần, meaning a minister who is willing to dispute his sovereign's orders in order to prevent the ruler from committing a mistake, even if this incurred his ire. The minister who allowed the ruler to err rather than risk upsetting him was regarded as a sycophant, a careerist rather a loyal adviser. The loyal official was thus required in certain circumstances to remonstrate with and even to disobey his sovereign to show his concern for the monarch.
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This reissue contains all the tracks from the original and international editions, together with an additional CD of early material. CD1 # "Girl" # " Kelly Street" # "Most Beautiful" # "No Time" # "Cuscatlan" # "Pretty Friend" # "1.9.0" # "Reflect" # "Out of My Sight" # "See/Believe" # "Labour of Love" # "Ordinary Angels" # "Dangerous" # "Lonely" # "Explode" # "Bizarre Love Triangle" CD2 # "Love And Terror" # "Oh Brilliance" # "Last To Know" # "Labour of Love" (Original) # "Risk" # "Baby Blue Sycophant" # "Testimony" # "Discipline And Deep Water" # "Ordinary Angels" (Original) # "Book Song" # "Seamless" # "Paper Bullets And Walls" # "Nadi" # "Somethin' Stupid (Stoopid)" # "Blue" # "Not Given Lightly" # "I Will Miss You" CD2 tracks 1–8 from the Whirled EP, 9–13 from the Clunk EP, 14–17 listed as "Rarities".
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There was also friction within the Catholic groups, first over Sukarno's 1957 decree that he was president for life and establishment of a guided democracy policy. A faction, led by Soegijapranata, supported this decree, while Catholic Party leader I. J. Kasimo's faction was heavily against it. Sukarno, who had a good working relationship with Soegijapranata, asked the vicar to join the National Council, a request that Soegijapranata refused; he did, however, assign two delegates to the Council, ensuring Catholic representation. This, along with Soegijapranata's support of Sukarno's decree on 5 July 1949 calling for a return to the 1945 constitution, resulted in Bishop of Jakarta Adrianus Djajasepoetra's denunciation of Soegijapranata as a sycophant.
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A few rare papers survived longer, however, including Figaro in Sheffield (1832-8) and Figaro in Wales (1835-6).Alvin Saville, British Literary Magazines, Greenwood Press, 1983 As well as the bound sets of yearly numbers, there were a number of spin-offs under à Beckett's enterprising editorship. There were firstly the four volumes of the Comic Magazine in which illustrations by Seymour figured prominently, along with articles and poems, several items of which were taken from Figaro in London.Volume 1, Google BooksVolume 4, Google Books There was also Sycophant saints and sabbath sinners, a satire (1833), a 32-page shilling pamphlet aimed at the editor's next victim, Sir Albert Agnew's attempt to introduce a bill on sabbath observance through Parliament.
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Dikaiopolis and Lamachus retire to their separate houses and there then follows a parabasis in which the Chorus first lavishes exaggerated praise upon the author and next laments the ill treatment that old men like themselves suffer at the hands of slick lawyers in these fast times. Dikaiopolis returns to the stage and sets up a private market where he and the enemies of Athens can trade peacefully. Various minor characters come and go in farcical circumstances. A starving Megarian trades his famished daughters, disguised as piglets, for garlic and salt (products in which Megara had abounded in pre-war days) and then an informer or sycophant tries to confiscate the piglets as enemy contraband before he is driven off by Dikaiopolis.
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However, later after criticism from several people in the Bollywood fraternity including Rajesh Khanna's daughter Twinkle, Naseeruddin apologized about his views. On December 18, 2018, he sparked a controversy by calling Virat Kohli as the worst behaved cricketer in the world. Shah was targeted by right wing media after he reacted to an incident of communal violence in December 2018. He stated that he felt unsafe in current day India and was worried about the safety of his children if they were caught in a mob violence situation. In January 2020, Shah was targeted by right wing media after criticising his co- actor colleague Anupam Kher for his views supporting the Indian government’s Citizenship Amendment Act, calling him a clown and sycophant.
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In December 1995 West opened the night club The End in London with Partner Layo Paskin (of Layo & Bushwacka!) and AKA bar three years later, which had its 23rd anniversary in December 2018. West is founder and owner of Plink Plonk records, co-founder of End Recordings and co-founder and owner of the Superfreq label. He has recorded under the names Myster-E, Unity 2, Nu Jacks, Bass Bureau, Mantrac, Somnambulist, Animus Amour, Killer Loop, Mr. C and Tom Parris, Mr. C and 16B and the Sycophant Slags. West is best known as frontman of The Shamen with whom he achieved a string of top 10 hits including "Move Any Mountain" and the UK number 1 hit "Ebeneezer Goode".
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Some speakers were thought to be incendiary: the crowd responded by chanting 'we will drink the blood of the Jews'( Nashrab dam al-yahud.) Beidas's own words concluding with the remark,'My voice is weakening with emotion, but my national heart will never weaken'. He, together with several others, was rounded up and detained. He was released in 1921, according to one account in the expectation that lenience would secure his support and mitigate his opposition. Overtures came from the French Mandatory authorities in Lebanon to "grease his palm" and get him to write political propaganda against the British, an offer he refused on the grounds that he had no intention of being either a lackey of the British or a sycophant of the French.
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10–11 George's collection of mathematical and scientific instruments is now owned by King's College London but housed in the Science Museum, London, to which it has been on long-term loan since 1927. He had the King's Observatory built in Richmond-upon-Thames for his own observations of the 1769 transit of Venus. When William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, he at first named it Georgium Sidus (George's Star) after the King, who later funded the construction and maintenance of Herschel's 1785 40-foot telescope, which was the biggest ever built at the time. George III hoped that "the tongue of malice may not paint my intentions in those colours she admires, nor the sycophant extoll me beyond what I deserve",Brooke, p.
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S. Naval Aviation, M. Hill Goodspeed & Burgess; Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc; , c2001, pp. 38-39, 126-130 Inserted into this was Matthews, having had no prior military experience, let alone naval experience, and viewed with disdain as an unqualified and unsupportive Johnson sycophant by most senior Navy and Marine Corps officers of the time. Matthews never made any attempt to bridge this gap, a gap that would later be exacerbated by his politically-motivated termination of a serving Chief of Naval Operations and glaringly noted by both the Congress and the news media of the day. Due to Matthews' actions and inactions, the bitterness between the Navy and the Marine Corps versus the Air Force and the Army would fester and take many years to go away.
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Both Buck and Tsion find a new home for the Tribulation Force, half of a duplex belonging to the late Donny Moore and his wife, after discovering the death of Loretta, a close friend to the Tribulation Force, and after Buck rescues Tsion from the shelter under the church where he lived. Nicolae Carpathia is revealed to have believed Revelation about the earthquake, because all surviving GC in New Babylon move into a massive underground shelter. Mac McCullum, Rayford's co-pilot, wants to know what Rayford knows about Carpathia, not believing that someone who thought only of his own life (as Nicolae did during the earthquake) could be divine. Leon Fortunato, a sycophant of Carpathia and now his Supreme Commander, claims that Carpathia resurrected him from the wreckage of GC headquarters in New Babylon.
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Larry D. Benson, The Riverside Chaucer, 1987: 600 The naming of the characters in this Tale is riddled with satirical nomenclature: Januarie, the main character, is named in conjunction with his equally seasonal wife May, representing their individual characters: , sharing the bare and unfruitful characteristics of his title month, whereas his youthful and 'fresshe' wife represents the spring seasons. This has particular relevance when considering the parallel between this tale, and the Biblical tale of Adam and Eve. Januarie's friends are named Placebo and Justinus: the former a sycophant, whose name in Latin means 'I will please', and the latter a fairer man ('the just one') with no individual motive. The main character, Januarie (or January), a senex amans, is a 60-year-old knight from the town of Pavia, in Lombardy.
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Gabe Lewis is the Coordinating Director of Emerging Regions for Sabre, initially acting as a liaison between Corporate and the Scranton branch. A neurotic sycophant and a quietly insecure person, he was often resigned to being forced to work inhuman hours and have no social life as a consequence of former Sabre CEO Jo Bennett's unpredictable management style. Throughout his appearances, it is clear that he suffers from a rocky relationship with his co-workers. During his first year and a half at the Scranton branch, his attempts to be respected by the rest of the office workers ended in awkward failure, as he does not have any power to control the branch as some of the previous higher-ups did (such as Jan Levinson and David Wallace).
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Hergé started collecting these types of words for use in Haddock's outbursts, and on occasion even searched dictionaries to come up with inspiration. As a result, Captain Haddock's colourful insults began to include "bashi-bazouk", "visigoths", "kleptomaniac", "sea gherkin", "anacoluthon", "pockmark", "nincompoop", "abominable snowman", "nitwits", "scoundrels", "steam rollers", "parasites", "vegetarians", "floundering oath", "carpet seller", "blundering Bazookas", "Popinjay", "bragger", "pinheads", "miserable slugs", "ectomorph", "maniacs", "pickled herring"; "freshwater swabs", "miserable molecule of mildew","Logarithm", "bandits", "orang-outangs", "cercopithecuses", "Polynesians", "iconoclasts", "ruffians", "fancy-dress freebooter", "ignoramus", "sycophant", "dizzard", "black-beetle", "pyrographer", "slave- trader" and "Fuzzy Wuzzy", but again, nothing actually considered a swear word. On one occasion, this scheme appeared to backfire. In one particularly angry state, Hergé had the captain yell the word "pneumothorax" (a medical emergency caused by the collapse of the lung within the chest).
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The group secretly uses the camp to conduct Allied espionage and sabotage and to help escaped Allied POWs from other prison camps via a secret network of tunnels that operate under the ineptitude of commandant Colonel Klink and his main Sergeant Schultz. The prisoners cooperate with resistance groups (collectively called "the Underground"), defectors, spies, counterspies, and disloyal officers to accomplish this. They devise schemes such as having Sergeant Andrew Carter visit the camp disguised as Adolf Hitler as a distraction, or rescuing a French Underground agent from Gestapo headquarters in Paris. To the bafflement of his German colleagues who know him as an incompetent sycophant, Klink technically has a perfect operational record as camp commandant as no prisoners have successfully escaped during his tenure; Hogan and his men assist in maintaining this record so they can continue with their covert operations.
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Many officials were disgusted by Xun Xu's fawning behaviour and called him a sycophant.(充將鎮關右也，勖謂馮紞曰：「賈公遠放，吾等失勢。太子婚尚未定，若使充女得為妃，則不留而自停矣。」勖與紞伺帝間並稱「充女才色絕世，若納東宮，必能輔佐君子，有《關雎》后妃之德。」遂成婚。當時甚為正直者所疾，而獲佞媚之譏焉。) Jin Shu vol. 39. Emperor Wu knew that Sima Zhong had developmental disability so he became worried that his son would bring disaster upon the Jin dynasty. He ordered Xun Xu and He Jiao to observe and evaluate Sima Zhong.
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Recognising the main faults of the first series, Curtis and Elton agreed that Blackadder II would be a studio-only production (along with the inclusion of a live audience during recording, instead of showing the episodes to an audience after taping). Besides adding a greater comedy focus, Elton suggested a major change in character emphasis: Baldrick would become the stupid sidekick, while Edmund Blackadder evolved into a cunning sycophant. This led to the familiar set-up that was maintained in the following series.Britain's Best Sitcom – Blackadder, 2004 BBC Television documentary, presented by John Sergeant Only in the Back & Forth millennium special was the shooting once again on location, because this was a production with a budget estimated at £3 million, and was a joint venture between Tiger Aspect, Sky Television, the New Millennium Experience Company and the BBC, rather than the BBC alone.
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Alielle Relryle (アレーレ・レレライル Arēre Rererairu) is Princess Fatora's friend, who is introduced when she returns to the royal palace after visiting her parents and sneaks into Fatora's bedroom while Makoto (still dressed as Fatora) is in bed. When she learns the whole truth, she becomes worried for the real Fatora's safety and assists Makoto and Fujisawa as they travel to see the three priestesses of Mt. Muldoon, serving as their guide. While an intelligent and courageous companion during the first quest, once Fatora returns she becomes a sycophant who even aids her mistress in her schemes to hit on other girls. In the opening sequence of the first OVA, there is a brief shot of Alielle wielding a curved sword, but she never actually actively participates in any combat over the course of the series.
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Many were drawn from real life: Mrs Nickleby is based on his mother, though she didn't recognise herself in the portrait,. just as Mr Micawber is constructed from aspects of his father's 'rhetorical exuberance':. Harold Skimpole in Bleak House is based on James Henry Leigh Hunt: his wife's dwarfish chiropodist recognised herself in Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield... Perhaps Dickens's impressions on his meeting with Hans Christian Andersen informed the delineation of Uriah Heep (a term synonymous with sycophant).. Virginia Woolf maintained that "we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens" as he produces "characters who exist not in detail, not accurately or exactly, but abundantly in a cluster of wild yet extraordinarily revealing remarks".. T. S. Eliot wrote that Dickens "excelled in character; in the creation of characters of greater intensity than human beings." One "character" vividly drawn throughout his novels is London itself.
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At a luxurious brothel in South Korea, KCIA Chief Agent Ju deals with the mother of a young woman who was one of South Korean president Park Chung-hee's playmates, who has come with her daughter to offer her again to the President, by interrogating and intimidating them. KCIA director Kim gets scolded by a doctor about his drinking, a direct result of having to attend President Park's drinking parties. Scenes of various officials and low officers making their way to a heavily guarded safehouse follow, including Chief Agent Ju procuring an attractive young woman and the famous enka and trot singer Sim Soo-bong for the party. During the dinner, President Park, his personal bodyguard, Cha Ji-cheol, Director Kim, Chief Secretary Yang (appointed to the post to be Park's drinking buddy, and portrayed as a total sycophant) discuss how to deal with demonstrators, with Cha berating Kim for not being repressive enough.
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In February 1978, the party met to approve a new state constitution, which Hua was heavily involved in drafting. This document, which attempted to restore some rule of law and planning mechanisms from the PRC's original 1956 constitution, still contained references to continuous revolution and proletarian internationalism; it was replaced only four years later with a different constitution that dropped all mentions of Maoism. Hua and other party conservatives such as Li Xiannian also drafted an ambitious ten-year economic plan which sought to create a Soviet- style economy based around heavy industry and energy, but it was quickly scrapped in favor of a cheaper and more doable five-year plan which prioritized light industry and consumer goods. Hua's weak personality and continued loyalty to Maoism did not inspire a nation and party leadership weary of the Cultural Revolution, and he quickly came to be seen as a Mao sycophant with no real ideas of his own.
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By 1918, a series of labor camps were established to deal with perceived enemies of the state, and in April 1921 the government approved the building of a camp that could hold 10,000 to 20,000 prisoners in Ukhta. As a result, the realities of early Bolshevik Russia conflicted with the ideals of a socialist society without oppression, terror or police rule which had been promulgated by Lenin as late as 1917. Internationally, many socialist observers decried Lenin's regime and stated that what he was establishing could not be categorised as socialism; in particular, they highlighted the lack of widespread political participation, popular consultation, and industrial democracy, all traits that they believed to be intrinsic to a socialist society. In autumn 1918, the Czech-Austrian Marxist Karl Kautsky authored a pamphlet, "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat", in which he criticised what he saw as the anti-democratic nature of the Bolshevik regime, with Lenin publishing a vociferous reply in which he labeled Kautsky a "sycophant of the bourgeoisie".
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" Paine makes plain his judgment that Howe was but a sycophant of George III: "Perhaps you thought America too was taking a nap, and therefore chose, like Satan to Eve, to whisper the delusion softly, lest you should awaken her. This continent, Sir, is too extensive to sleep all at once, and too watchful, even in its slumbers, not to startle at the unhallowed foot of an invader." Paine makes it clear that he believes that George is not up to his former standards when it came to his duties with the American colonies. Paine also sheds light onto what he felt the future would hold for the emerging country, "The United States of America, will sound as pompously in the world, or in history [as] the Kingdom of Great Britain; the character of General Washington will fill a page with as much luster as that of Lord Howe; and Congress have as much right to command the king and parliament of London to desist from legislation, as they or you have to command the Congress.
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Yang Xun was ridiculed by many people for his flattering behaviour; Cui Yan was also cast in a negative light because he was deemed as having recommended a sycophant to join the civil service. After the incident, Cui Yan read Yang Xun's memorial and wrote to him,(琰甞薦鉅鹿楊訓，雖才好不足，而清貞守道，太祖即禮辟之。後太祖為魏王，訓發表稱贊功伐，襃述盛德。時人或笑訓希世浮偽，謂琰為失所舉。琰從訓取表草視之，與訓書曰： ...) Sanguozhi vol. 12. According to the historian Chen Shou, who wrote Cui Yan's biography in the Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi), Cui's true intention in writing those remarks was to mock Yang Xun's critics for being too eager to disparage Yang without making any careful consideration. However, Cui Yan was accused of displaying arrogance and defaming Cao Cao in his letter.
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While Hieronymus Osius tells the tale of the traveller and draws the moral that one should avoid those who are inconstant, Gabriele Faerno puts it in the context of friendship and counsels that this should be avoided with the 'double-tongued' (bilingues). In this he is followed by Giovanni Maria Verdizotti, Marcus Gheeraerts the ElderDe warachtighe fabulen der dieren, 1567 see Hollar's copy in WikiCommons and Geoffrey Whitney. Wenceslas Hollar's "The Satyr and the Traveller" accompanying John Ogilby's paraphrase However, in Francis Barlow's edition of the fables (1687), the Latin text warns against those whose heart and tongue do not accord, while Aphra Behn comments in English verse that "The sycophant with the same breath can praise/ Each faction and what’s uppermost obeys",De Satyro et Viatore, Fable 74 in Aesop's Fables with His Life: In English, French and Latin : Newley Translated ; Illustrated with One Hundred and Twelfe Sculptures (London 1687), p.148 following John Ogilby's slightly earlier example of giving the story a political interpretation. But there is more nuance in Ogilby’s narrative.
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In 1996, at Blocher's behest, Maurer was elected president of the Swiss People's Party. Not taken seriously at first and parodied by TV comedian Viktor Giacobbo as Blocher's servile sycophant so memorably that his taunted children regularly returned from school in tears, his presidency saw the party double its voter base, establish itself in the French-speaking part of Switzerland and become the country's strongest political party. These successes have been largely credited to Maurer's leadership, who was able to make up a lack of charisma with astonishingly hard work, the imposition of strict party discipline, a keen sense for promising populist issues (such as opposition to European integration, foreigners and political correctness) as well as a penchant for headline-grabbing soundbites, as attested by an often-cited statement of his: "As long as I talk of negroes, the camera stays on me".In the original German: «Solange ich Neger sage, bleibt die Kamera bei mir.» As president of the People's Party, Maurer was a leading force behind the party's aggressive and successful populist campaigns – campaigns that drew the ire of the Swiss political mainstream and the concern of foreign observers – signing off on cartoonish posters attacking leftists, foreigners and other undesirables.
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