Graduateshotline >> GRE Word List Usage for obsequiousIn outlining his so-called solution for peace, offering up everything just short of the Sudetenland, Obama again demonstrated his almost limitless capacity for self-promotion and obsequious pandering to the sworn mortal enemies of America, ... Not unreasonably, in analysing the preparations for the visit, MacMillan asked: “Did Dr Kissinger have to be quite so deferential, even, at times, obsequious?” I might have regarded that as an excessively harsh judgment before reading this book. ... It's a toss up between the lickspittle Nick Clegg or the obsequious Speaker John Bercow. Both looked equally smug with delight following their blink-and-you-miss it encounters with the world's most powerful man. They'll no doubt boast about this ... Director Joe Wright chose a stellar supporting cast, from Donald Sutherland to Blenda Blethyn to Tom Hollander as an obsequious cleric. Wright also employs deft camera shots to show the intimacy and teetering refinement of the Bentleys' overcrowded ... |