Much of the humor hinges upon lampooning fussy, toadying conversations about cuisine.
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Pence's performance has prompted adjectives such as fawning, groveling, toadying, sycophantic and less polite pejoratives.
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She's become rich and famous in the meantime for toadying for billionaire tech CEOs, she's their handmaiden.
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As toadying becomes spectacle, the observers -- or in the patois of new media, followers -- become more important.
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"It seems to me that bandwagoning, sycophancy, toadying are all becoming much more fundamental," Professor Naughton said.
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He is as quick to skewer activists as he is toadying company men and morally abstract upper management.
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Wolff's book depicts a deeply unprepared, incurious president surrounded by toadying advisers concerned about his ability to do the job.
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Some Republicans are, rightly, aghast at the news about Butina, especially coming on the tails of Trump's toadying visit with Putin.
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NHK was criticised particularly for its toadying reporting of the government's line after the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011.
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Informing management that "Smithers is a toadying moron who couldn't manage a car pool, let alone our department," for instance, might feel honest.
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Some of the most toadying videos, such as "The east is red again" (comparing Mr Xi to Mao), have been scrubbed from the internet.
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Many Americans and other friends of Britain will be appalled by its decision and fear that the country is being naive and toadying up to China.
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There, King Henry IV (Ben Mendelsohn, making the showy most of a minor role) rules over the usual retinue of toadying courtiers while waging endless war.
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For the most part, this line signifies the barrier between glumly accepting America's vision of emasculated, toadying Asian men and the great promise of success and masculine fulfillment.
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It was one hell of an audition for Trump and secured Barr the job whose accurate description should have cited Roy Cohn -- the toadying counsel to "Red Scare" Sen.
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Graham's toadying to Trump has been so over the top, and such an abrupt about-face, that the more conspiracy-minded on the left wonder what Trump has on Graham.
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Most worrying is the polarisation in Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, backed by toadying advisers and belligerent state media, hisses accusations of treachery at anyone who dares oppose his government.
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UKIP is a shambles now and Nigel Farage, its former leader, has been reduced to toadying up to Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen in an attempt to keep in the papers.
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At a time when I worried constantly how people perceived me, the Cat was a vain popinjay and Kryten, an android they pick up in season 3, was a toadying people-pleaser.
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Far from the usual weekly session of barbed interrogation by foes and ritual toadying by supporters, this felt like an impromptu show with a star still stunned at realising the curtain has fallen.
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Opinion Columnist No matter how low your expectations for the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Monday, it was hard not to be staggered by the American president's slavish and toadying performance.
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So why, between them, couldn't they come up with something better than a ham-handed parody of macho arm-twisting and submissive toadying in the manner of third-rate David Mamet or Harold Pinter?
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He's a monster as toadying official, and the scenes in which he does walk-and-talks through hallways in which people are being tortured and killed offer a singularly hilarious bleakness — brutality turned into bureaucratic mundanity.
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Still, "Beauty" rolls along like a well-oiled machine, augmented by new music, fleshed-out backstories for the principals and Josh Gad's scene-stealing turn as the toadying LeFou, whose much-ballyhooed gayness -- an overblown controversy if there ever was one -- is played with a combination of sweetness and subtlety.
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But the cast as a whole is terrific, from one-scene bit players to Anne Dudek and Adam Lustick as Kate and John, two toadying junior executives who serve as warning signs for where Jake and Matt might end up, to comedian Aparna Nancherla as a beleaguered human resources rep who's the closest thing the show has to a character who's an actual human being.
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He was a tuft-hunter and a toady, but he did not know that he was doing amiss in seeking to rise by tuft-hunting and toadying.
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Court Chaplain, Court Tutor, Court Master of Ceremonies, President of the Privy Council, District Administrator: A series of faceless, toadying officials of the Court of Popo who bow instantly to the word of the King.
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The film was well received in Hungary and a reviewer for the Associated Press at the Cannes Film Festival described it as a "not very original storyline" redeemed by "top-notch actors", especially Kimmel, whose first lead role this was, and Scherer, who "evoke[s] pathos" despite the silliness of his role as the toadying party functionary.
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After a series of misadventures, the duo ends up in Snowshoe, Colorado, a ski resort populated by a horrifying cast of the decadent rich and their hangers-on, where LaVerle finds romance with a former internet nude model and Stark becomes a toadying guru for an eccentric billionaire. As Stark gets sucked into the orbit of this bizarre community, LaVerle fights to save him and his dying faith, while battling his own temptations.
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The chief executive is required, by Article 56 of the Basic Law, to state for the record his reasons for rejecting a majority opinion of Exco members. The changes sought to Exco, previously dominated by civil servants, would remove one further constraint to the power of the chief executive. Furthermore, as Political secretaries would also have a say over who will become their permanent secretaries, a toadying culture among civil servants towards their political masters would be created.
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With the support of the Hamilton and Argyll interest he transferred to Glasgow Burghs where he was returned. In the new Parliament he continued to keep a foot in each camp. Having sold his estates of Errol and Drumsoy, he was now well funded and renewed his solicitations on behalf of his brother James Craufurd. In May he was toadying to Lord North, but in July, when he had received nothing, he "took occasion to say everything disagreeable to Lord North that one could well imagine".
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In Blackadder: Back & Forth she appears as present day Lady Elizabeth and Queenie. Queenie's immature behaviour is expressed in her desire to "get squiffy and seduce nobles" (and force presents off them on pain of death). A naughty schoolgirl at heart, Queenie loves to party, play games and get drunk. If anyone fails to laugh at her jokes, they risk execution, but, to her followers' bemusement and frustration, she sometimes tires of their toadying and welcomes a more cynical approach – which is why she prefers Edmund Blackadder to Lord Melchett.
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National Portrait Gallery Whatever his intentions, Wright did not return to Italy, rather he was joined in England by his family soon after. Despite his Roman Catholicism and the strong Protestantism of the Protectorate (1653–1659), Wright seems to have been able to find prestigious work. Indeed, Waterhouse speaks of him engaging in "the most deliberate and unblushing toadying to Cromwell" in his 1658 painting of a small posthumous portrait of Elizabeth Claypole, Oliver Cromwell's daughter (now in the National Portrait Gallery). This is an allegorical portrait depicting Elizabeth as Minerva, leaning on a carved relief representing the goddess springing from the head of Jove with the motto "Ab Jove Principium" – an allusion to Cromwell himself, whose cameo portrait she holds.
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Barkely played the straight man, interviewer, and narrator to Al's different voiced characters. The morning commuter audience tuned in by the thousands as shown by ratings to hear Lohman's quick wit and vast array of character voices play against Barkley's straight man routine. Among Lohman’s characters were the obsequious con-man and alleged farm expert “Maynard Farmer,” whose toadying “That there’s the finest (whatever) that I’ve ever seen there, sir” won him numerous undeserved rewards; “Otis Elevator”, a good-natured handyman; "Judge Roy Bean," a hanging judg. The pair also hosted two short-lived, Emmy Award- winning network television shows, made frequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and Hollywood Squares and numerous personal appearances at Los Angeles' famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub.
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Audiences tuned in by the thousands to hear Lohman's quick wit and vast array of character voices play against Barkley's straight man routine. Among Lohman’s characters were the obsequious con-man and alleged farm expert “Maynard Farmer,” whose toadying “That there’s the finest (whatever) that I’ve ever seen there, sir” won him numerous undeserved rewards; “Otis Elevator”, a good-natured handyman; "Judge Roy Bean," a hanging judge, former big band leader and supposed ex-member of the Bee Gees; and human interest reporter “Ted J. Balogna” and his wife “W. Eva Schneider- Balogna”, the poetry lady who seemed never to have any poetry, who supposedly drove to the Wilshire Boulevard studio each morning on Ted’s tractor (and later, a fire engine with W. clinging precariously to the back) from their home in a tree house in Brawley, a real town in Imperial County, nearly away. These characters and others were also regular occurrences in a segment called "Light Of My Life," a spoof of daytime soap operas.
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It is the time of the French Revolution, whilst the French aristocracy are losing their heads, two bored English noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing (pronounced "Effing") and his best friend Lord Darcy Pue (played by Sid James and Jim Dale respectively), bored with the endless round of country pursuits, the social scene and “the same old balls”, decide to have some fun and save their French counterparts from beheading by the guillotine. Enraged, but barely competent, revolutionary leader Citizen Camembert (Kenneth Williams) and his toadying lackey, Citizen Bidet (Peter Butterworth), scour France and England for the elusive saviour of the French nobles, who has become known as “The Black Fingernail” after his calling card of “two digits rampant”. After a series of audacious rescues the Black Finger Nail succeeds in rescuing the Duc de Pommfrit (Charles Hawtrey), whilst disguised as an insurance salesman, and in the process tricking Citizen Camembert into guillotining his own executioner. Citizen Camembert is chastised by his superior Maximillien Robespierre (Peter Gilmour) and threatened with the guillotine. During his escape from France Sir Rodney meets his true love, Jacqueline (Dany Robin), leaving her with a silver locket containing a set of his mother’s false teeth.
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The drunken father, evidently made up from Mr. George > Cruikshank's pictures of The Bottle, is admirably played by Mr. George > Honey, who made his first appearance at this theatre, and who never acted > better.... The make-up, the voice, the manner, the savagery in one part, the > hypocritical maudlin grief in another, the toadying to wealth in another, > the disgust and abuse when wealth refuses to deposit even a sovereign, the > exits and entrances of this character, are things to be gratefully > remembered.... Honey was in the original production, which opened on 16 April 1870 at the Vaudeville Theatre, of For Love or Money by Andrew Haliday. He appeared in the play Money by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, playing the part of Graves. He first took this role in 1869; the play was revived at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1872 and 1875, where it made a greater impression on audiences. In the Standard on 31 May 1875, a critic wrote: > A noticeable and welcome feature in the revival is the return of Mr. George > Honey, who resumes his part of Graves, one of the most genuine and > unexaggerated examples of pure humour the modern stage has witnessed.
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