| 单词 | sycophantic |
| 例句 | Did these people know that such sycophantic behavior would make a scythe want to glean them even more? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “That sounds good, sir,” said Ernie sycophantically, rubbing his hands together. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A constant stream of diners comes to their table to shake Werner’s and Frederick’s hands and ask Frederick’s mother in low sycophantic voices about her husband’s latest advancement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Once upon a time—fairly recently, in fact—Molly would’ve gagged over these words, both because they’re blatantly sycophantic and cringingly sentimental. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Someone in the crowd around the lifts called sycophantically, “Morning, Yaxley!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Anyone who is not a German wants the Germans dead, even the most sycophantic of them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He wrote a letter to the then Imperial Mathematician, Reimarus Ursus, seeking his opinion on his own work, and sycophantically praising Ursus as the greatest mathematician of all time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He said something and the others laughed a little too heartily for it to be anything but sycophantic. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Sure, I love the idea of our family’s archenemies turning into sycophantic suck-ups, but when the strange actually materializes into reality, it definitely leaves you reeling. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The legendary jazz pianist turns 90 tomorrow and the event was marked by not one suitably sycophantic interview but two – with Jamie Cullum on Radio 2 and Paul Gambaccini on Radio 4. Rewind radio: Jamie Cullum Interviews Dave Brubeck; Brubeck at 90; David Walliams on Philip Larkin; Decoding Basquiat; Ernest John Moraen 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Comedy Central bills the pilot and 10-episode series as taking on "teams, players, leagues, sycophantic fans, ridiculous products and over-hyped coverage." Comedy Central picks up 'The Onion Sports Network' 2010-04-14T14:44:00Z Previous exhibits of communist-era art focused on how artists paid sycophantic tribute to Ceausescu, showing him as a demigod or a revolutionary hero. Exhibit shows Romanian artists resisted regime 2012-09-28T11:20:16Z She constantly regaled those around her in French or English, while everyone nodded somewhat sycophantically. What Baroness Philippine de Rothschild brought to the world of wine There’s a sycophantic assistant who’s a mincing cliché, and the white owner of a Japanese restaurant who speaks in broken English. ‘Licorice Pizza’ Review: California Dreaming and Scheming 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Celebrity interviews are increasingly tedious and sycophantic, but to his credit, Corden has shaken that up a little. Carpool Karaoke: The Series – Apple's original TV is all stars and no substance 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The hold they have over staff, and more importantly, their Board of Directors, has always struck me as sycophantic, uncritical and utterly cowed. 5 Women Accuse the Architect Richard Meier of Sexual Harassment 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Because it's cinema eating itself and chuckling as it chokes, poking fun at everything from sycophantic casting to stupid scripts. Clip joint: films within films 2010-05-05T12:12:00Z “Instead of writing a soporific and sycophantic memoir, he’s written a satire that’s critical and alive and intelligent.” Rep. Steve Israel, finding the funny in Washington’s corridors of power 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Indeed, his baritone drawl was one of the evening’s real highlights; also up there were his sycophantic mumblings as the landlord/modern dancer Marty. Michael Fassbender really pulls the Big Lebowski live read together 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z It’s no wonder given the reliably sycophantic softballs she pitches. Perspective | When Fox News disappoints, Trump has a backup: the conspiracy theory-peddling OANN 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z As the president plays the tough guy for his sycophantic audience of aides and appointees, you can see our post-post-modern world taking shape. ‘Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words’ on HBO 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z The established players respected formal guidelines set by publicists and traded soft-focus, sycophantic “stories” for, say, the exclusive rights to wedding photos. Gossip explains our culture. And nobody explains it like Lainey Gossip. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z He's occasionally pulled out of his inertia by a comically sycophantic public relations woman to answer ridiculous questions from foreign journalists at a press conference and to submit to a photo shoot. Somewhere ? review 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z Like a sycophantic new-starter who continues after the first week to wear a tie and stay back late, everyone knows it will be impossible to compete with. Teaching a robot to do my job (and grimly cheering my obsolescence) | Ellen Wengert 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z It may be sycophantic, gooey fare for parents, but small children – monarchists to the last – will probably enjoy this wealth of books about a baby born to the purple. Royal baby books: regal or ridiculous? 2013-07-19T09:36:00Z In this supposedly patriotic 1937 symphony, there is always the unresolved question as to whether the composer, fearful of Stalin’s lethal criticisms, wrote something subversive or sycophantic. With his L.A. Phil program, here's what a man of mystery portends for New York 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Trump rally appears to violate White House coronavirus task force recommendations: Shall I describe the sycophantic group Unmasked, and close together on the green? Style Invitational Week 1410: Legends of the fall 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z She read for Natalie, a sycophantic acting student whose desperation was not entirely unfamiliar to her. How D’Arcy Carden finally found her ‘Good Place’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z As Louis frames it, family is the template for, and the creature of, the state, with its brutal leadership, its sycophantic enablers, its goons and its subversives. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z It's been several years since contestants on The Apprentice formed into one large homogeneous mass of sycophantic psychopaths. Rewind TV: Hannibal; The Apprentice; Life of Crime; Murder on the Home Front; Great Artists in Their Own Words – review 2013-05-11T17:00:05Z Moran has interviewed him extensively, and appears to trust his every word: "at the risk of sounding sycophantic", he writes at one point, which I'm afraid he does, rather. Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain by Christopher Moran – review 2013-01-10T08:00:01Z In the studio he’s enthusiastic but calm, direct and not sycophantic. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z Leary’s “experiments” involve weekly sessions at his house, where sympathetic faculty members, sycophantic grad students and various hangers-on come together, drop acid and have mind-blowing sex. Review | T.C. Boyle is America’s bard of historical frauds. It’s about time he skewered Timothy Leary. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Ambitious politicians and military officers had to be fawning, sycophantic courtiers. A toxic monarch 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Barney, the town wino, is funny because he’s a drunkard, he explains; Smithers, Mr. Burns’s sycophantic assistant, is funny because he’s closeted. You Love ‘The Simpsons’? Then Let’s Talk About Apu 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z It is the season for Hollywood to celebrate itself in a sycophantic flourish of statuettes, tiaras and tear-stained platitudes. What effect has the internet had on celebrity? 2011-01-23T00:05:38Z But, as it turned out, our jobs were just to add to their entourage of servile, sycophantic flatterers. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z He died of natural causes at his dacha outside Moscow, surrounded by his fearful and sycophantic court. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z For the next few weeks these sycophantic telethons will stretch across the TV schedules; barging aside soap operas and football highlights and delaying the news. Does awards season turn you off? 2011-02-11T14:32:55Z Brand's "Greek" co-star Jonah Hill appears as a sycophantic waiter who exhibits an embarrassingly star-struck adoration of Snow. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Get Him to the Greek'? Try other Russell Brand films and comedy shows on DVD 2010-06-03T22:33:00Z Republicans, who belonged to what was the antislavery party at the time, generally mistrusted him, with one of them calling him “the sycophantic friend and supplicant tool” of anti-Reconstruction forces. A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z By the time Trump was sworn in, Hannity’s entwinement with the new president went far beyond sycophantic interviews and concocted conspiracies. The Incestuous Relationship Between Donald Trump and Fox News 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z So how are you going to build relationships that aren’t sycophantic or entirely adversarial? Jackie MacMullan Is the Great Chronicler of Basketball’s Golden Age 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z Critics described him variously as pompous, sycophantic, unctuous, oleaginous and obsequious. James Lipton, ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ Host, Dies at 93 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z He and his writers have also created a Razzies-like event, where AlHudood awards a prize to the most sycophantic news reports in Arab media. A lesson in satire from the Arab version of the Onion: Some dictators can't take a joke 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z It's true that from time to time he would stray and say something vaguely critical but over Trump's term he became progressively sycophantic to the point of embarrassing self-abnegation. The writing is on the wall for Lindsey Graham 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z And in the end, Trump exposed the limits of his influence when even sycophantic House Republicans — led by the man Trump called “My Kevin”! — ignored him. Opinion: In the debt limit showdown, both Biden and (surprise!) McCarthy are winners 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z McCarthy’s “sycophantic relationship with Trump” has rendered him “a voodoo doll” for the White House and most Democrats, Pinkas wrote in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which is highly critical of Netanyahu. News Analysis: Why Kevin McCarthy's provocative Israel trip and invite to Netanyahu are 'so dangerous' 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z You either sycophantically support and agree with him or you're written off. How Trump may be coping with being caught 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The company also warned that such tools could, if deployed haphazardly, create “sycophantic A.I.s that mindlessly amplify people’s existing beliefs.” As Chatbots Spread, Conservatives Dream About a Right-Wing Response 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z And the loud claims of patriotism asserted by the clownish Greene and Gaetz do not hide the fact that they are sycophantic apologists for an enemy of America. Anti-Ukraine Republicans enable tyranny over democracy 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z In recent years, it has become a strange, often sycophantic spectacle with a smattering of more rigorous queries thrown in. Kremlin says no peace for Ukraine by Christmas (or New Year’s) 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z There are sycophantic advisers who don't dare to criticize the autocratic leader. Putin's massive mistake: Lawrence Freedman on Ukraine and the lessons of history 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, countless conspiracy theories and bogus fraud allegations have flourished, fueled by Donald Trump and his sycophantic allies. Opinion | Vote counting could take time. That’s good — not a sign of fraud. 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z On the other side of the exchanges, Musk’s friends came across in some cases as sycophantic, careless or both. Everything we don't know about Elon Musk's latest about-face on Twitter 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Trump, as you may recall, broke with all tradition and almost immediately headed off to Saudi Arabia to get feted by the desert kingdom's royal family in an especially ostentatious and sycophantic display. Donald Trump: Queen Elizabeth's Yank stepson? He seems to think so 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z "Barrack has done deals with Saudi princes, Texas oilmen, a Caribbean dictator — even with Donald Trump," that sycophantic Fortune profile recounted. How one of Trump's best friends was trapped in the Jersey swamps: An American tale 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z He referred to Maher's attacks on trans people in general as indicative of a complex of "thinking you're brave & subversive for mocking the most marginalized, while reliably sycophantic to actual power." What happened to Glenn Greenwald? The former trans ally now sides with right wing transphobia 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z I really respected his opinion, but it wasn’t as sycophantic, I think, as Barry’s relationship is with Cousineau, where he’s like a father to him. 'God, he's so dumb': Even Bill Hader doesn't fully understand Barry 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z One model has emerged in Utah, where a once-promising conservative leader, Sen. Mike Lee, begrimed his character in sycophantic service to Trump. Opinion | The answer to Trumpism: A centrist bloc. The question: How to build it? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z They also dropped a subplot in which the sycophantic courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern accompany Hamlet to England and are murdered en route. Met’s new ‘Hamlet’: To be or not to be true to the text 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z So despite his past sycophantic support of Trump, McCarthy's taped words set off another round of vitriol aimed at him from the more loudly fascist members of the GOP. Why does McCarthy continue to be backed by Trump? Because he's not in charge. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The New York property tycoon made no secret of his admiration for Putin, a sycophantic approach that seems to have further emboldened the Russian president. Ukraine crisis: The free world fights back against Putin 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z The cinephilic, sometimes sycophantic milieu is lightly satirized, with an opening montage of inane questions from film journalists posed to movie stars and directors. Review | Woody Allen’s latest, ‘Rifkin’s Festival,’ is a pretty film. Pretty forgettable, that is. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z In the case of Fox News communiques with the White House, it is a poignant irony that the demands of a vigorous 1st Amendment dictate protection even for a sycophantic rascal like Hannity. Column: Hannity had an unholy alliance with Trump. The 1st Amendment still protects him 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z It may be the billionaire owner, the locker room of millionaire players, an incredulous media or a fan base that isn’t sycophantic. Perspective | Urban Meyer’s control, like his Jaguars tenure, is already wavering 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z And all those sycophantic candidates who are running on the Big Lie platform will follow his lead and say the same things. Trump loyalists across the country going after fellow Republicans in 2022 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s one of the most sycophantic interviews of a state official you’ll ever see. Inside the Beltway: Biden still evades the classic press conference 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z In so many ways, Scott and other Black conservatives fulfill many white racists' American Dream of compliant, sycophantic, loyal and submissive Black people. How not to talk about American racism: Tim Scott lures Democrats into a trap 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z When a congenital liar surrounds himself with sycophantic liars, he can easily lose radio contact with reality. Opinion | Elected Republicans are lying with open eyes. Their excuses are disgraceful. 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z His charm and disinclination to tolerate those he regarded as foolish or sycophantic earned him a position of respect among some Britons. Britain's Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth, dies aged 99 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The CCM has been in power for decades and Magufuli, critics alleged, had created a more sycophantic kind of politics, in which dissent from within his party was unheard of. Tanzania’s new leader acknowledged the pandemic and promised more civil rights. Critics are unconvinced. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z He was devoted to following the sycophantic commentary on Fox News. Competence restored at White House 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z A man who, as the House managers amply demonstrated with court documents, didn't care who he killed by inciting an insurrection, even if the victims were his most sycophantic supporters in Congress. House Democrats make their case to Senate Republicans: Trump duped his rioters — and he'll dump you 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Lisa Levy claimed “the deluge of praise heaped” on “Blue Nights” “has been excessive, bordering on sycophantic.” How the crises of 2021 and a new collection redeem Joan Didion's politics 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The network, a favorite of Mr. Trump’s because of its sycophantic coverage, didn’t show its viewers Mr. Biden’s swearing in or his inaugural address. ‘They Have Not Legitimately Won’: Pro-Trump Media Keeps the Disinformation Flowing 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z “His primary goal was to do his job while being completely sycophantic to Trump, even if he came off as Manichaean and un-nuanced,” said Tom Wright, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Pompeo clings to Trump’s legacy with an eye toward inheriting the MAGA base 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z The same calculations appear to be going through the heads of Republican officeholders who have sycophantically served Trump up to now. Column: Did tech companies go too far in banning President Trump? The answer is no 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Given the number of sycophantic weasels in the Republican caucuses, hitting that mark would seem nearly impossible, but Trump would still be sidelined during the process and Pence would temporarily be president. Great minds think alike on 25th Amendment 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z And even as he has seemed utterly uninterested in the details of actual lawmaking, his susceptibility to persuasion by his most sycophantic allies has caused countless headaches for Republican congressional leaders. Despite his boasts, Trump again is no deal-maker as Congress seeks pandemic relief bill 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z There's been no chopper talk, no televised Cabinet meetings with sycophantic tributes to his greatness, no crude insults toward reporters, nothing. Donald Trump has real reason to be worried: Democrats are pursuing accountability this time 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z But the sycophantic words could not conceal how Barr, like the attorney general Jeff Sessions and the FBI director James Comey before him, had refused to do the 45th president’s bidding once too often. Barr couldn't pass Trump's loyalty test: shredding the US constitution | David Smith's sketch 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Fox News still airs them at times, leaving the more sycophantic and lesser known OAN network along with a handful of YouTube channels as the only regular broadcasters of the president’s near-nightly performances. Trump, stirring up more chaos in final stretch, may be exhausting the voters he needs 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Even assuming the bill could be rushed to passage in the House, it would inevitably die in the sycophantic GOP-controlled Senate. Why the 25th Amendment is no match for a madman and his party of sycophants 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Under such circumstances, fascist politics is now embraced by him, his sycophantic political allies and his followers without apology. Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Woods didn’t make the cut Friday, either, which was surprising only to his most sycophantic fans. Column: Another major mishap by Tiger Woods at US Open 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z By the standards of today’s journalism, each ridiculously false statement must be taken seriously, at least outside of sycophantic Trumpist media outposts like Fox News and OAN. Perspective | Trump's tweets are famous. But this is the Facebook presidency. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z According to Cohen, Trump’s sycophantic praise of the Russian leader during the 2016 campaign began as a way to suck up and ensure access to the oligarch’s money after he lost the election. In new book, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen describes alleged episodes of racism and says president likes how Putin runs Russia 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z The greatest measure of his newfound political clout is the heated competition among Republicans to offer the most sycophantic quote about him. Donald Trump Jr. Is Ready. But for What, Exactly? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z And Barr is “sycophantic,” a “toady” who evolved from “principled conservative to Trump apologist.” Review | Trump tried to shut him down, but Robert Mueller was his own worst enemy 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z All that is preposterous, for it is Trump who has been China’s stooge, a sycophantic flatterer and enabler of President Xi Jinping. Opinion | China’s Man in Washington, Named Trump 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z There were sycophantic newspapers and other media gushing over the dictator, his family and the royals. Snohomish show of force: ‘I know what fascism is’ 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z At every step of the way, the Republicans in Congress have backed Trump, giving him permission to purge the government of anyone he believes is disloyal and reward his most sycophantic admirers. Yeah, Donald Trump's gonna cheat and this election will be hellish: Your angst is for real 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z It helped that he was able to bully opponents, abuse electoral rules, exploit state patronage and harness sycophantic TV channels, with Mario Silva, presenter of a show called the Razorblade, acting as his Sean Hannity. Bluster, distraction, denial: Trump follows Chavez's successful template 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Witness the showering of praise by sycophantic officials. COVID-19 is accelerating the Republican Party’s descent into authoritarianism 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z “Where do they keep finding all these sycophantic old white guys?” Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s Easter blame game: ‘Pin the tail on everyone else’ 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z If part of Christie's legacy will always be his sycophantic relationship with Donald Trump a few years later, this is another part. Chris Christie's forgotten lesson in leadership 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Bespectacled, bearded and with a tendency to emphasize his well-rounded vowels, Mr. Lipton came across as cerebral, if sometimes sycophantic. James Lipton, host of ‘Inside the Actors Studio,’ dies at 93 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Yes, they are often sycophantic towards Trump but he is also often sycophantic towards them. 'This is what the end result is': Trump at his Trumpiest basks in acquittal 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Why blur a clear line between sycophantic, craven Republicans and principled truth-seeking Democrats? Opinion | Here’s why censuring Trump is a nonstarter 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The rest of the senators fell into line as sycophantic clones of Mike Pence. Opinion | Trump, Unrepentant and Unleashed 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Finally, you have gotten a taste of the heavy-handed intimidation techniques the president and his sycophantic enablers use to beat down critics. Opinion | John Bolton, it’s now or never 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z But he’s a Republican member of Congress in 2020, which means he’s a sycophantic shell of his former self. Opinion | Senate Republicans Are Bathed in Shame 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Here, in meetings, ceremonies and rallies, the president basks in constant affirmation from fervent supporters and sycophantic staff. Impeachment: is Trump set to survive and win a second term? 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z And while his most sycophantic followers may find that satisfactory, the rest of the political world need not accept politically motivated lies about national security so casually. Trump: 'It doesn't really matter' whether airstrike rationale is true 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Happy on champagne, Stan was tickled by yet another sycophantic media question for his old chum, and mumbled to himself: “We all love you, Roger!” Faultless Roger Federer’s appeal transcends tennis to become an icon | Kevin Mitchell 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z It reportedly includes the creation of a super PAC that intends to help defeat Trump and his most sycophantic “enablers.” Wednesday's Campaign Round-Up, 12.18.19 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Then comes the isolation of the dictator within his palace—friendless and paranoid—and the pruning of his circle to an ever more sycophantic few. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z But Graham has gone the opposite way, becoming the most sycophantic of Trump supporters in the upper chamber of Congress. Are Lindsey Graham's stupid stunts just meant to keep Daddy Trump quiet? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Though the president and his sycophantic supporters will do everything in their power to paint both Taylor and Kent as secret Democrats and closeted never-Trumpers, the facts tell a very different tale. Editorials from around New England 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s not surprising that Trump’s more sycophantic allies are finding it daunting to defend him. Offered opportunities, Trump's allies struggle to spin Ukraine scandal 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Once he and his sycophantic cabal assume power, they deepen and widen the disorder, dismantling and changing the society’s norms, institutions, and laws to fully reflect their own pathology. The Trump depression (and we don't mean the economy): Key symptom of autocratic regimes 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Early in the day, Trump tweeted quotes from one of his more sycophantic — and unhinged — followers, Wayne Allyn Root, calling Trump the "King of Israel" and "the second coming of God." Evangelicals told Trump he was "chosen" by God. Now he says it himself 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The former official said that, in private, too, Pompeo is “among the most sycophantic and obsequious people around Trump.” Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of Trump 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z It would appear that Trump and his sycophantic fascists-in-training simply don’t like black Americans, and do not consider predominantly black cities as part of the “real America.” Donald Trump and the Republican Party hate America: It's time to say it 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z “We need a political revolution in this country,” he told a remarkably sycophantic interviewer. Nigel Farage is the malign spectre haunting Boris Johnson’s new government | Nick Cohen 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z With your sycophantic subordinate, you need to do the exact opposite of all these things. Perspective | How to set boundaries with a sycophantic subordinate 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Neither do I like the author’s sycophantic take on the CIA, nor her cavalier accounts of CIA targeted killings. Review | Truly unbelievable tales of derring-do and gruesome escapades at the CIA 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The rest have become the most sycophantic of Donald Trump's toadies, acting as his most loyal henchmen. Yes, Justin Amash is an impeachment hero. Don't expect other Republicans to follow him 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Now, the GOP response to the conclusion of the Mueller investigation into Russian election meddling has been even more sycophantic, if that was possible. Republicans around here are now complete lambs to Trump. Except for one. 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Critics described Mr. Netanyahu’s intention to name a new Golan community for Mr. Trump as sycophantic. Netanyahu Seeks to Name a Golan Heights Settlement for President Trump 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z By old tradition, coverage of the royals oscillates between sycophantic and brutal, avidly milking story lines about their laziness, profligacy, debauchery or low intelligence. Scorned British Tabloids to Harry and Meghan: Show Us Your Baby! 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Trump’s most shameless and sycophantic supporters still occasionally throw around the allegation, but most know not to take it seriously. AG Barr lends his support to Trump's 'spying' conspiracy theory 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Reince Priebus was sycophantic in support of the president as chief of staff, and he too was ousted in embarrassing fashion. Kirstjen Nielsen learns a lesson on the limits of Trump's loyalty 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It encourages scholars to perform in real time for an audience of the like-minded, enabling a form of solidarity that is by turns sycophantic, hyperbolic, or cruel. Why HUD’s lawsuit against Facebook came as a surprise 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Whether or not the congressman, one of Donald Trump’s most sycophantic allies on Capitol Hill, was encouraged by lawyers to publish this follow-up tweet is unclear. Did key Trump congressional ally cross the line into witness tampering? 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Disaffected followers told the Post his organization was a cult-like operation that demanded “sycophantic obedience” and even required married couples to inform on each other. Lyndon LaRouche, perennial U.S. presidential candidate, dies at 96 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Unlike the memoirs of other Trump officials, Sims’s book is neither a sycophantic portrayal of the president nor a blistering account written to settle scores. Trump disses former aide Cliff Sims as he dishes about his new tell-all book 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Unlike memoirs of other Trump officials, Sims’s book is neither a sycophantic portrayal of the president nor a blistering account written to settle scores. ‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims’s book depicts life in Trump’s White House 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Senior Republicans, who privately roll their eyes, have been admiring, even sycophantic, in his presence. How will history judge President Trump? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The recent criticism from Mitt Romney — who alternates between critical and sycophantic, depending on his own political interests — is another sign of Trump’s weakness. Opinion | The People vs. Donald J. Trump 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Trump's performance was so outrageously weak and sycophantic it became hard to deny that something was extremely awry in that relationship. Worst of Donald Trump in 2018: In a year of new lows, these were the lowest 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Fox News, despite its usual sycophantic attitude toward Trump, has shown a willingness recently to criticize our insecure and narcissistic president for even the slightest sign of backing down on his hardline anti-immigration attitudes. Another dead child: Trump's hostility to immigrants has become lethal 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z But he also blames the international community for not helping Suu Kyi enough, because it was “basically sycophantic and too wedded to the fairytale it had constructed of her.” Special Report: Fading Icon - What happened to Aung San Suu Kyi? 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Bill Mitchell, the right-wing host of YourVoice Radio, is widely ridiculed by liberals on social media as one of Trump's most ludicrously sycophantic supporters. Inside the right’s craziest reactions to Democrats regaining control of the House of Representa... 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The larger question is, why is the senator – who’s become one of Donald Trump’s more sycophantic allies – so worried about Democrats examining the Russia scandal? Lindsey Graham is eager to investigate DOJ, Hillary Clinton 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z So there is a strong constitutional case, as well as a strong political one, for recapturing the legislative branch from its dishonest and sycophantic rightwing Republican leadership. The Guardian view on the US midterms: blue wave wanted | Editorial 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z New to government, buoyed by sycophantic supporters and his own overweening ego, Trump made mistake after mistake: He turned little problems into big ones; he thought he could misstate, manipulate and escape detection. Opinion | Trump sees enemies everywhere. He should look in the mirror. 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Look, I realize people in the president’s orbit feel the need to be sycophantic toward him, if for no other reason than to protect their job security. Haley: Foreign leaders 'love to be' with Trump, admire his 'honesty' 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Yes, of course, Trump was trying to be funny by repeating a ridiculous boast he routinely tells sycophantic supporters at campaign rallies. Following UN mockery, Trump claims he 'meant to get some laughter' 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z From Trump’s perspective, his historic greatness should simply be accepted as if it were self-evidently true, the way sycophantic supporters applaud his every claim at his self-indulgent rallies. At the U.N., Trump finds the world literally laughing at him 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z In the news pages, Trump's coverage was so favorable that the New Yorker magazine said the Enquirer embraced him "with sycophantic fervor." A National Enquirer safe is said to have held damaging Trump stories 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In the news pages, Trump’s coverage was so favorable that the New Yorker magazine said the Enquirer embraced him “with sycophantic fervor.” Relationship between Trump, Enquirer goes beyond headlines 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Author of the most recent insider Trump book, the former senior White House staffer, campaign surrogate and “Apprentice” villain may once have been the most sycophantic of all. Review | I read six sycophantic pro-Trump books — and then I read Omarosa 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z She said: "When people very senior in the federation make sycophantic comments about the chief constable, I'm not sure the rank and file officers feel that they are sufficiently represented and it is independent." New chief urged to tackle police 'misogyny' 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z By isolating themselves in a bubble of sycophantic loyalists, they set themselves up for disastrous errors. Turkey’s Crisis Exposes the Perils of Strongman Rule 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Not the Golden Globes, voted for by the sycophantic freeloaders of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who are quite clear about what they want: to be pampered and partied on the studio dime. An Oscar for best blockbuster? Isn’t all the money enough any more? | Ryan Gilbey 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z It revealed that 79 percent of Republicans approved of Trump’s sycophantic performance at the news conference with Vladimir Putin, while 85 percent deem the investigation of Russian intrusion into our elections a distraction. Opinion | Disgusted With Donald Trump? Do This 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z A Republican president and his sycophantic congressional enablers are selling out their nation to a hostile foreign power and convincing GOP voters to slander those who put their lives on the line to defend it. Republicans have decided to follow Trump off a cliff of treachery 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z One of the most amazing things about this administration is that Trump routinely says idiotic, sycophantic garbage about Russia, but the administration’s Russia policy has been far harsher than the prior two administrations. Republican lawmakers, pundits quick to criticize Trump’s “shameful” press conference with P... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The higher the candidate rose in the GOP primary polls, the more marketable and sycophantic they grew. Can truth survive this president? An honest investigation. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Of all the rightwing polemicists dizzy with excitement about the arrival of Trump on British shores, there are surely none as blatantly sycophantic as the one-time columnist Katie Hopkins. Britain's Trumpocracy: who are the president's biggest cheerleaders? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Gowdy's sycophantic comment dramatically undercut his shiny new image as a "man of integrity." Spygate’s a big bust, but Donald Trump still hates Jeff Sessions: This week in confusing Russia... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Odoxa, the polling firm, found that the words “sycophantic,” “painful” and “failure” were among the most frequently used on social media to describe the Macron-Trump relationship. Emmanuel Macron’s Bromance With Trump Takes Its Toll at Home 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Obama’s affinity for, and similarity to, Mr. Lincoln was made clear to us by his sycophantic legacy media. Barack Obama gilds his legacy 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Commissioned in 1900 by Andrew Mellon and other wealthy industrialists, the sculpture depicts Foster sitting high above a black man who is positioned sycophantically playing the banjo at his feet. Statue of Doctor Who Did Slave Experiments Is Exiled. Its Ideas Are Not. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Most of Trump's so-called friends and associates seem to be greedy, mean spirited and sycophantic people who feed Trump's nasty ego and engage in mutual hate fests. Michael Cohen Has Said He Would Take a Bullet for Trump. Maybe Not Anymore. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The move set the tone for a sycophantic show of political pageantry that tossed aside decades of collective leadership in favor of one man. With Xi in office for the long haul, China touts its stability — 'the opposite of Washington, D.C.' 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The best bits are when Trump, voiced wonderfully by Jeff Bergman, leaves the safety of his own sycophantic clan. Stephen Colbert's 'Our Cartoon President' hits the mark sporadically, but when it does, it hits hard 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z And following a visit to the White House last year, Prime Minister Theresa May was mercilessly mocked in the British press for appearing overly sycophantic toward Trump, to the point of walking hand-in-hand with him. Trump stirs a hornet's nest in Britain by blasting its National Health Service 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s no longer the party of Reagan, it’s the sycophantic party of a billionaire strongman that doesn’t care about democracy and is using our republic to enrich himself and his family at any cost. House Republicans Release Secret Memo Accusing Russia Investigators of Bias 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The show was so awful, even the usual sycophantic media were more than unkind. Grammys dumpster fire: Bullying hypocrites overtake the big show 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z This is all the more pressing in the face of the Republican leadership’s shameful cowering before a president who is perpetually in search of loyalty and sycophantic praise. Opinion | This new year, tell Trump: Enough 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z I thought the sycophantic display of groveling at his June 2017 televised cabinet meeting was despicable and appalling. F.B.I. Director Wants to Move Forward, but the President Is Making His Job Harder 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z It's dishonest for West to try to use Coates' own writing to impugn him as a sycophantic 'darling' when West hasn't bothered to read Coates' writing. Cornel West Doesn’t Want to Be a Neoliberal Darling 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The Herald newspaper and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation - state and ruling ZANU-PF party mouthpieces - routinely heaped lavish praise on the 93-year-old Mugabe and his wife Grace in sycophantic articles and commentaries. Zimbabwe's Mugabe is gone, but political kow-towing still abounds 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Now comfortably leashed, he deserves the degradations that he seems too sycophantic to recognize as such. Opinion | Sinister figures lurk around our careless president 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z “This comment made me nauseous. It was an admission of his sycophantic enabling,” she wrote. From fledging actresses to Hollywood royalty, here's a full list of Harvey Weinstein's accusers and their allegations 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The Speaker wasn’t always quite this sycophantic towards Trump. Paul Ryan sees Trump 'giving us the leadership we need' 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The most spiteful were those who had once been most sycophantic. ‘Not amused’: Princess Margaret’s misadventures in bohemia 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z The Herald newspaper and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation - state and ruling ZANU-PF party mouthpieces - routinely heaped lavish praise on the 93-year-old Mugabe and his wife Grace in sycophantic articles and commentaries. Zimbabwe's Mugabe is gone, but political kow-towing still abounds 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z They could be sycophantic to power and snobbish, but they also felt duty-bound to elevate the standards of society and readers. Perspective | How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z But rarely have they started out in this sycophantic fashion. Usain Bolt: Lose? I can’t believe you’re asking me. We won’t have that problem 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Despite all of these events unfolding over the course of about five days, the Wall Street Journal reports that some of the president’s more sycophantic allies were actually quite impressed with last week’s developments. Trump loyalist sees last week's failures as a great success 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z And I have always been intrigued by the sycophantic Mrs Clay, who has wound her way into Sir Walter’s good opinion, despite her red hair and her freckles. Which is the greatest Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z He refuses to acknowledge his shortcomings, let alone come to terms with them; and he desperately craves the kind of sycophantic adulation that George Washington, a genuine hero, pointedly rejected. Opinion | Our #FakeHero president is an insult to our Founders 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z The net effect of Donald Trump’s sycophantic support of Riyadh is that it absolves the Saudis of any of their own responsibility for terror. Iran and the Saudi deflection campaign 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Even the most sycophantic Trump supporters probably find this hard to believe. Trump's ignorance about health care carries real consequences 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z It turns out that being surrounded by sycophantic devotees hanging on your every word is a trait that many of Trump’s friends also share. Trump is scared Brits will be mean to him? Classic strongman fragility | Moustafa Bayoumi 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Ignorance of the law, in other words, may work as a credible excuse for Trump’s sycophantic boosters, but there’s no reason anyone else should accept it. Trump's allies point to his ignorance and inexperience as a defense 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z If this happens, even the most sycophantic of news outlets could decide Trump isn’t worth the effort of defending. The liberal punditocracy thinks Donald Trump is toast. Not so fast | Ross Barkan 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The result, Post said, would be “a sycophantic leadership circle afraid to question him.” Should Psychiatrists Speak Out Against Trump? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z He could get rid of the sycophantic aides who spend so much time blaming each other. Opinion | Trump could learn a lot from his mistakes. He won’t. 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Later Rowling warned Morgan that his sycophantic attitude to Trump would be his downfall. Fantastic beefs and where to find them: JK Rowling at war with Piers Morgan 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z What passed before as a sycophantic discussion with his own attorney now opens the door to endless litigation and the clear and present danger of impeachment. The honeymoon is already over for President Trump | Richard Wolffe 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z One multinational’s boss drew cheers with a sycophantic call for India to “export” Mr Modi to run his home country, America, too. India’s prime minister has a knack for shrugging off embarrassment 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Could this recognition be a tiny bit sycophantic? Kate Middleton is rightly honoured for her photographs – they are full of love 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z That has made the Kremlin virtually the only recourse for Russia’s discontents and bolstered faith in a centuries-old adage: The czar is good, but the boyars—the greedy, sycophantic nobles who surround him—are bad. To Fight Grievances, Russian Farmer Takes Road to Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z If it was not already clear, Trump plans to surround himself with sycophantic yes-men who share his views and will gleefully set about laying waste to civil liberties and justice. Donald Trump’s presidency isn’t looking any better: 6 despicable things the president-elect did last week 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z So it shouldn’t surprise us if there is an air of the sycophantic about the team he enlists. Donald Trump’s celebrity won him the White House. It could destroy his presidency. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z He is wearing Puma trainers and a Puma polo top, but doesn’t come out with any sycophantic spiel about his sponsor. Usain Bolt: ‘I feel good because I know I’ve done it clean’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Many constituency responsibilities were taken on by Mr Burton, who says his old boss felt able to relax in the North East, where people were more direct and less sycophantic than in Downing Street. What is it like when the PM is your MP? - BBC News 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z However, regardless of what happens, it will be as the sycophantic Trump aide said: “Amazing.” A week with Trump: inside the campaign that keeps confounding 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z A man born in Pakistan would ordinarily not be heard in his sycophantic rallies. Khan's Coup de Grace 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z They point to his business dabblings in Russia, sycophantic comments about Mr Putin and his confidants’ pasts. Signal and noise 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Usually those who suffer most are not the narcissists, Freed says, but those around them, the people who have to cope with the “mood swings, walking on egg shells, the demand to be sycophantic.” Is Donald Trump a textbook narcissist? 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Influence was to be, as its very first edition declared, “the must-read crib sheet for Washington’s influence class,” with news of developments on K Street done up in tones of sycophantic smugness. The worst DC has to offer: Influence is a paean to Washington greed and corruption 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in debate after debate, unconstrained by the sycophantic media moderators, Hillary rudely interrupted, talked over both O’Malley and Bernie Sanders, and hogged airtime like it was going out of style. It’s not about sexism: Camille Paglia on Trump, Hillary’s “restless bitterness” and the end of the elites 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z He didn't want it to be a sycophantic "greatest hits of UNKLE" documentary on screen. The rise and fall of Mo'Wax founder James Lavelle — and the record industry that fell with him 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z If anything, there’s reason to worry that the Trump campaign is simply going to double down on the strategy of intimidating journalists in hopes of sycophantic coverage. Donald Trump escalates war on media: Increasing assaults on the press putting reporters in a no-win situation 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s also massively narcissistic and sycophantic, in vintage Beltway-insider style, marinating in details and locations and celebrating its author’s access to power. Mr. Spock at the “sh*t show”: Barack Obama, the rise of Trump and a world gone crazy 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z I am ashamed of the NRA's position and fear they have turned into nothing more than a sycophantic lackey of the small arms industry. End the Gun Epidemic in America 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Trump, a masterful marketer, has taken care since then to make his right-wing cheering section look huge and wholly organic, habitually retweeting typo-laden messages of support from sycophantic accounts. How Donald Trump courted the right-wing fringe to conquer the GOP 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z As the Speaker leaves the stage, it’s difficult, even for the most sycophantic of Republican partisans, to boast about the Boehner Era. The legacy Speaker Boehner leaves behind 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z “Arab Labor” centers on Amjad Elian, a sycophantic Arab journalist for a Hebrew newspaper, who lives in an Arab village before moving with his family to a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem. Israel’s Favorite Palestinian Calls It Quits 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z If there must be a victory trophy, let it be shared between the three Fox News anchors who gave Washington’s sycophantic press corps a lesson in how to hold politicians to account. The winners of the first Republican debate: its Fox News moderators | Paul Lewis 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z And he repeated it a few hours later when he sat down for an “interview” with an embarrassingly sycophantic Sean Hannity. Scott Walker makes a clown of himself: Foreign policy-challenged candidate disastrously flubs Iran 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z In the court of public opinion, the hand of the Abbott government was strengthened by the fact that the biggest selling newspapers were providing sycophantically favourable coverage, and the remainder were going easy. Julia Gillard book exclusive: how the bullying, biased media hurts Australia 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Although many vented their frustration online, others defended the move and criticised the poet Hamza for being a sycophantic follower of Soviet rulers. An excuse for missing your stop: the station's been renamed - BBC News 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z A couple of sizeable African nations were given his name and biographers and filmmakers have for a century and more fed us his life of daring and glory for empire with sycophantic zeal. Do Africa's colonial relics really matter? 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z If I say she is brilliant, well-organized and aging beautifully, it will be seen as sycophantic. Watch out for ‘coded sexism’ if Hillary Clinton runs 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z “We wanted to do something that is not a sycophantic look at what is going on,” Gumbel said Monday. Gumbel’s ‘Real Sports’ marks 20 years 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z "We wanted to do something that is not a sycophantic look at what is going on," Gumbel said Monday. Gumbel's 'Real Sports' marks 20 years 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Movies that are not cut from the same sycophantic, Harvey Weinstein-funded cloth. The 2015 Oscars: Anything That Could Go Wrong, Did Go Wrong 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z There is a sycophantic exposure to his need to be embraced by someone of wealth, reminiscent of the high school outsider, who for the moment, was let into the ring of the popular. On Duty for the Chris Christie Hug Watch 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z “If there was a film about Kim Jong Un, it would only be explained in the most laudatory, sycophantic way,” says Petrov. Movie? What Movie? North Koreans Unaware of Sony's Humiliation 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The audience’s composition was the same as before, the rows packed with the same sycophantic lawmakers, technocrats, and propagandists who attended Putin’s blistering Crimea speech on March 18. Putin's Rambling State of the Nation Speech Unnerves Russia's Elites 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “We knew there were, to be delicate, a pants-load of scenes where Kissinger was being incredibly sycophantic to the president,” says Shearer. Nixon comes alive in a new show from Harry Shearer 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z "We knew there were, to be delicate, a pants-load of scenes where Kissinger was being incredibly sycophantic to the president," says Shearer. Nixon comes alive in a new show from Harry Shearer 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z And he poked indiscriminate fun at Mr. Mubarak, Egypt’s aging strongman, his sycophantic loyalists, the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood and the young activists of Tahrir Square as well. Citing Pressure and Threats, Egypt’s Answer to Jon Stewart Calls It Quits 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The respective paying of patronising and sycophantic, yet entirely meaningless lip-service, is proven as a method of transfer market success. Football transfer rumours: Samuel Eto’o to sign for Arsenal? 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z In the end, however, the man who both sowed terror and inspired sycophantic narco-ballads across Mexico is likely to be tried there as well. Anatomy of a Takedown 2014-02-25T14:35:30Z The media salutes, though, with its sycophantic headlines like the Washington Post’s, “Obama To Focus On Income Inequality.” Obama's State Of The Union Address: If You Like Your Income Inequality, You Can Keep It 2014-01-26T22:37:00Z I don't think it was sycophantic at all. Top civil servants in Thatcher row 2013-04-18T13:25:25Z Coach Urban Meyer said he has "no baggage" — none of the sycophantic hangers-on who can poison a promising player. Ohio State's Braxton Miller wins 2012 Chicago Tribune Silver Football 2012-12-07T03:03:00Z He used my name, giving it the personal touch, without being too sycophantic. Store Wars: DFS and Harveys Furniture 2012-07-20T09:04:54Z But the result of Berlusconi's entry, encouraged by a close group of sycophantic advisers, could have the opposite effect despite his undoubted campaigning skills. Analysis: Berlusconi adds new instability to embattled Italy 2012-07-18T12:58:23Z But the photo was a fraud, doctored by the paper’s sycophantic editors. The Tyrant's Brutal Legacy 2012-06-25T05:00:00Z "You penned an article that was entirely sycophantic," Mr Flynn told them at a Commons committee hearing. Top civil servants in Thatcher row 2013-04-18T13:25:25Z They stammered and became stupid when he spoke to them crossly, but never failed to smile sycophantically when he expressed pleasure. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z He was high and overbearing toward his equals, harsh and unkind to his inferiors, while he was cringing and sycophantic toward his superiors. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Changed indeed were the times from those a year or two past when their exit had been greeted by sycophantic cheers, or, at worst, by a little good-humoured jesting! Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z "It's a very old house," he thought, hopefully, and began to grade his reason to a condition of sycophantic credulity. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z He was often cordial to his largely sycophantic inner circle, but was capable of coldhearted calculations about the forces he had sent to war. Archive Offers Rare Glimpse Inside Mind of Saddam Hussein 2011-10-25T18:29:25Z The free system divests the teacher of all proprietary and personal interest in his school, and will speedily render him sycophantic and servile to his trustees, but haughty and negligent towards his pupils and friends. Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada 2011-10-14T02:00:23.300Z That of the Autocrat of all the Russians is so far truly independent; while that of one of our executives, in relation to the Pope, is truly spiritless and sycophantic. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z But before this sycophantic papal favorite could be crowned king, and anointed with the holy oil, he was obliged to swear to preserve the clergy in all the privileges and immunities which they enjoyed. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Affectation, with his sycophantic wiles, had won the heart of a degenerate generation. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Char did not like an attitude of sycophantic dejection, and Miss Plumtree may therefore have been responsible for the very modified enthusiasm with which the next applicant's request for an afternoon off duty was received. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z The contrary defect, namely, a sycophantic amiability, which approves of everything and admires everything: example, the Philinte of Molière. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Images of Chávez's well choreographed return were repeated throughout the day on state television, including sycophantic ministers greeting him on the tarmac and even the singing of a folk song from Chávez. Why Hugo ChÁvez's Dramatic Re-Appearance May Not Be Enough 2011-07-06T08:55:00Z He followed Arabic satellite news channels, seeking another perspective to the sycophantic Syrian press. The Soldier Who Gave Up on Assad to Protect Syria's People 2011-06-13T18:20:00Z "Other lovers," he said, "are engaged perpetually in sycophantic adaptations—" "In what?" The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Some bemoaned the “pompous VCs,” “sycophantic politicians,” the Silicon Valley tourists, the startups that attracted eyeballs and wads of cash sans business models and, well, the $3 trillion that effervesced on the Nasdaq. Scenes From A Silicon Valley Bubble 2011-05-27T03:30:38Z At the same time, if advantages are yet to be gained, they are sycophantic to nauseousness in their deportment towards those from whom the favours are to come. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Their more fawning and sycophantic supporters will help republicanism more,” it said. The Lede: Live Updates: The Royal Wedding 2011-04-30T00:00:54Z I love my newspaper on Saturdays and Sundays, but I won't bother this week as they will be full of sycophantic drivel. Royal wedding: Where were you? 2011-04-29T12:18:17Z The ubiquity of Mr. Mubarak’s picture, which hangs in every government building, attests to the sycophantic behavior that became well ingrained throughout his three decades in power. Now, Mubarak?s Name and Likeness Are Gone, Too 2011-04-21T22:09:44Z The features were regular, even handsome, yet puny, and the soul that looked out of his eyes was facile, treacherous and sycophantic. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z Environed by sycophantic flatterers, heads bowing, knees bending, tongues eternally bepraising; things in human shape giving them adoration as to God Himself—ay, greater than to God—how could it be otherwise? No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Steinheimer believes that the decline of the studios' power, combined with Taylor's colourful personal life, created a new, more cutting, and less sycophantic style of mainstream media coverage of celebrities - moving towards today's tabloid press. Ultimate star 2011-03-23T23:36:50Z But isn't there a better, less sycophantic, more equitable way to raise cash? Twitrelief? I don't follow 2011-03-15T11:30:00Z I know, I know, it's sycophantic to admire a royal just for being normal. Zara: A big cheese with a small ego 2011-03-13T00:04:12Z Even among Russia's most senior officials, it is common to hear these kinds of sycophantic and seemingly deluded remarks. The Big Taboo: Confronting Russia's Human-Rights Abuses 2011-02-25T20:50:00Z Distinguished economists from America's Ivy League universities were drafted in by banks to compose reports sycophantically supporting reckless deregulation. Inside Job ? review 2011-02-17T14:59:01Z All of these might well be brought under the law of the confiscation so as to fatten the Royal treasury, or at least fall to an expectant sycophantic nobility. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The Australian press, especially the non-electric variety, could never be truly described as sycophantic. Vic Marks on that catch and day one 2010-12-16T10:18:28Z With the England bid team burrowing up the Blatter colon and the travelling press pack burrowing up theirs, it made for a seemingly endless and unedifying human centipede soundtracked by sycophantic, squelchy slurping. The Fiver 2010-12-02T16:58:00Z Irritated by the sycophantic nonsense in the tabloids that accompanied the announcement of the Windsor-Middleton merger, he logged on to Facebook and gave vent to his feelings. Oh you naughty tweeters ? you've upset the establishment 2010-11-28T00:07:00Z While a culture of sycophantic hero-worship was one consequence of presidentialism, another was political terrorism. How Caesarism came to America 2010-08-31T13:01:00Z We accused our colleagues in the media who suggest otherwise of being sycophantic dunderheads, who are too easily impressed by handsome continentals who peddle a steady line in pseudo-mystic waffle and jokes that aren't funny. The Fiver 2010-04-29T15:08:00Z Ben was the favorite, though Sam had a few followers—generally sycophantic boys who had a respect for wealth, or had favors to ask of him. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck If there was a drop of sycophantic blood in his veins, he had yet to reveal it. Thirty You are from the far West, if I do not mistake, and our frontiersmen, as a rule, are as deficient in courtly graces as the European aristocrats are sycophantic. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois The people, deeply wounded in its vanity, and swindled out of its love of truth by sycophantic word-mongers, will come to reason. Waldfried A Novel With their soft sycophantic ways, they remind me of cats, and I expect them to show their claws at any moment. An Artist in Crime He did not receive his appointment for that vast, hard-working genius which makes his name the ornament of many an age, but only for his sycophantic devotion to the royal will. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence She was tall and thin, and had gooseberry eyes and a small nose and a large sycophantic mouth. Coquette He complained that he had “had the honour” of being rancorously abused by every unmanly scoundrel, every sycophantic lackey, and every political and religious renegade in the kingdom. George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 The narrative proceeds with a curious detail of all his sycophantic attempts at seducing useful patrons, among whom was the Archbishop of Canterbury. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Guests, sycophantic people of all sorts were taken to consider it. The Passionate Friends That toadying, sycophantic, wealth-worshiping Miss West can see no farther than the epidermis! Carmen Ariza "I hope he is making a handsome man of me," said Turner, in a sycophantic way. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 The Manager smiled the sycophantic smile of one who worships Mammon. The Tale of Timber Town It is not pity—whining, sycophantic pity—alone that will do them good. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement "Oh, she is an unsurpassable creature!" exclaim the whole tribe of contemptible, sycophantic, brainless calves in broadcloth, who are ever ready to fall down and worship the golden emblem of themselves. Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life No wonder that so many of our politicians are dough-faced serviles, without independence or manhood; no wonder our priests are time-serving and sycophantic: no wonder that so many men are moral cowards and cringing poltroons. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I We were back again amid the “old comedy” characters, of whom we always talk with sycophantic admiration. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 In order to attain happiness in the army, the first step is to avoid differences of opinion with the civil and military police and non-commissioned officers, and such-like sycophantic myrmidons of authority. The Rough Road It was sycophantic, and yet behind the cringing air of an old man who had been worsted in his struggle with fate was a shadow of old truculence. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands When the sun is ill aspected, the native is both proud and mean, tyrannical and sycophantic, exceedingly unamiable, and generally disliked because of his arrogance and ignorant pomposity. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy But she never could summon up sufficient nerve to be rude to so awful a mimic… “Good morning, dear one,” she said sycophantically. Miss Mapp On the landing of a foreign king, prince or nobleman—even a miserable "knight"—do we not execute sycophantic genuflexions? The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 He beckoned and he had a thousand sycophantic suppliants. The Book of All-Power He was rough to his servants, insolent to inferiors, and sycophantic to men of rank. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges If he was at all sycophantic, it was his will rather than his nature to be so. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 “Forty,” said Puffin sycophantically, as he thought over what he would say about himself when the old man had finished. Miss Mapp There are more plain hypocrites than sycophantic ones, for there are more rascals of no consequence than rich and distinguished ones, though they get fewer smiles each. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 That he held this sound opinion is quite as plausible an explanation of Voltaire's anxiety to know persons of station and importance, as the current theory that he was of sycophantic nature. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Tesla was replying, not so fawningly, the bay beneath his soft words mastering his sycophantic tones. Erik Dorn It is hard to picture to yourself this impressive figure giggling sycophantically at the pleasantries of a humorous judge. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 But in contempt of all his engagements, and out of pure sycophantic concession to the Canton mob, Keying notified that we the injured party were to be excluded. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Not only are we no less sycophantic than the people of monarchial countries; we are more so. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Summoning to its aid Laud and other sycophantic counsellors, it subtly resolved to lay its hand on the very conscience of the church. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Tesla continued to talk, a sycophantic purr in his words.... Erik Dorn Now Borrow complained that he had had the honour of being rancorously abused by every unmanly scoundrel, every sycophantic lacquey, and every political and religious renegade in the kingdom. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 Thus we see the city merchant—smooth, prudent, sycophantic. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future The talk about the black people being brought to this country to prepare themselves to evangelize Africa is so much religious nonsense boiled down to a sycophantic platitude. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South These latter were divided between sycophantic and shrieking indignation with the filly for declining to jump, and a most wary attention to the sphere of influence of the whip. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches This action, and the sycophantic air which accompanied it, disgusted me, and turning to the Colonel, I asked jocosely: 'Do the chivalry exact so much obsequiousness from the country clergy'? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy The English language, which under the hands of sycophantic verse-makers had been reduced to a miserable jargon . . . flowed clear, pure, and simple along with the music of Blake and Coleridge. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century "I've got a date," he gayly said to his sycophantic friends, in a tone that would reach Lane's ears. The Day of the Beast My oldest brother is a very cowardly and sycophantic man. Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem A Novel A torrent of blame had better suited the contrite mood in which she met him; but she took the blame on her own shoulders, and in her relief said things sycophantic and untrue. The Spinners At the same time, he was in no wise sycophantic where either wealth, power or fame was concerned. Twelve Men In a Stage-box is the Author herself, with a sycophantic Companion. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, April 2, 1892 Yet they made themselves sycophantic servants of the King of Spain. An English Grammar No, sir; I do but humbly voice the opinion of my fellow-deadheads when I say that we would rather be abolished than have to offer sycophantic applause as part of the bargain. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" "Third time this morning, sir," added a sycophantic subaltern. The First Hundred Thousand In college cant, one who seeks or gains favor with an instructor or popularity with his classmates by mean and sycophantic actions. A Collection of College Words and Customs A discreet sycophantic smile from the group at this devastating witticism! Mr. Prohack Though the sycophantic attorney would probably as lief have housed a monkey of lineage so distinguished, old Mrs. Blandy seems really to have adored the foxy little captain for his beaux yeux. Trial of Mary Blandy A faint sycophantic smile lightened the amazed features of Joseph. The Regent It is here that the incident recorded in every school reader, the historic rebuke to sycophantic courtiers, is said to have taken place. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End That the pastoral was forced to serve the menial part of a vehicle of sycophantic praise is less easily pardoned. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England It was not a sycophantic, troublesome devotion, that made itself a burden to its object. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? The Devil's Dictionary Was it her fault if she did not possess those sycophantic arts which her hypocritical nephew, Pitt Crawley, practised? Vanity Fair Thus there is nothing really mean or sycophantic about the popular literature which makes all its marquises seven feet high. Heretics Adj. servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching &c. v. Roget's Thesaurus Here also repose Canute, who gave that immortal reproof on the Southampton shore to his sycophantic courtiers, and his celebrated queen Emma, so famous at once for her beauty and her trials. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 His tone of suppressed anger changed to a tone of civility which was almost sycophantic. Charlotte's Inheritance Selfishness and arrogance of disposition express themselves in indifferent, rude, or overbearing Manners; while vanity and insincerity are outwardly fawning and sycophantic. The Elements of Character That mean, sycophantic…He was beginning to get angry. The Cathedral In his first edition Mr. Leaf regarded the interpolations as intended "to glorify Nestor" without reference to Pisistratus, whom Mr. Leaf did not then recognise as the master of a sycophantic editor. Homer and His Age Are we not leaders who have no subservient, no flattering imitators, no sycophantic copyists? My Tropic Isle Business and professional men had long been groveling in sycophantic servility at the feet of "the clique." The Centralia Conspiracy For I swore early in life never to utter a falsehood, and, above all, a sycophantic falsehood; and, in the false homage of the modern press towards women, there is horrible sycophancy. Miscellaneous Essays To no one, however, was he so completely sycophantic as to the Archdeacon. The Cathedral Adj. servile, obsequious; supple, supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching &c. v.. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Among Biddle's especial enemies were the members of the "Kitchen Cabinet," who with sycophantic adroitness used Jackson as a tool. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders Their refined taste and exquisite modulation are admirable; while the matter is far less sycophantic than was to be expected from so devout a monarchist. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 "Jambo bwona," and the sycophantic Ali would leap to his feet and raise the dirty red fez that adorned his head. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign He had towards them all precisely the right attitude; he was not amiable and childish like the Dean, nor pompous like Bentinck-Major, nor sycophantic like Ryle. The Cathedral No fawning, sycophantic whine, Marr'd the clear note thy spirit blew, Thy stirring words, thy gift divine, Were to thyself and country true. Canada and Other Poems Ah, dear sycophantic old lady, I kiss your sycophantic hands, and wish heartily that I were a duke for your sake! Note Book of an English Opium-Eater This would furnish a new ground to the sycophantic chorus for extolling his fine qualities. Great Fortunes from Railroads His frame, naturally feeble, sunk under the oppressive tenderness to which the constant care of a vain father, a doting mother, and sycophantic friends and servants, subjected it. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story It had made a great impression on him then, for he was at the height of his fortunes, with crowds of sycophantic friends and a retinue of dependents at his heels. Gallegher and Other Stories Several of the boys were near by—sycophantic followers of Jim, who were enjoying in advance the rumpus they expected. Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute This being the case, it being certain that no rank will reprieve a bad writer from final condemnation, the sycophantic glorifier of the public fancies his idol justified; but not so. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater She sat and watched with admiration sycophantic but real. The Old Wives' Tale You thought that I, having a little money of my own, might be tempted by certain sycophantic instincts to emulate his misplaced generosity. South Wind Prettilove, who has a sycophantic sense of humour, burst into a loud guffaw. The Red Planet Do you come back sordid and sycophantic, and the slave of opinions you would once have utterly detested? Beulah As long as fortune was faithful to me, they, who now call themselves the provisional government and senate, in the name of France, were my most sycophantic servants. Napoleon and Blucher They stand not aloof with the gaping vacuity of vulgar ignorance, nor bend with the cringe of sycophantic insignificance. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man It is this want of proportion between profit and labour which debases men, producing the sycophantic appellations of patron and client, and that pernicious esprit du corps, proverbially vicious. Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark The men who praised Cesare, the historian tells us, were sycophantic courtiers. The Life of Cesare Borgia "For an empty belly," he ended with his odious, sycophantic geniality, "makes an empty heart and an empty head." The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza But on the whole he devised so pleasantly sycophantic an atmosphere as to procure a substantial tip for himself, and to make Lord Ashbridge conscious of being a very superior performer. Michael The trusty had a silly, sycophantic manner of raising one hand in salute. The Financier, a novel A sycophantic Guaraní from the reductions then took up his parable, and said: `God save ye, brothers; we are come to visit you as friends. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 What so untruthful as to deserve to be branded sycophantic? The Life of Cesare Borgia Fifanti's mean, sycophantic air fell away from him as by magic. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza His age may have been fifty; his air was mean and sycophantic. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza |
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