Ingratiation

Word INGRATIATION
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The word "ingratiation" in example sentences

This kind of honor, also known as ingratiation, is gained by improving America's poll numbers in global opinion surveys. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They also were more likely to engage in political behaviors such as ingratiation, self-promotion and doing favors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Prof. Bhagwati, charitably, but grossly understates the relationship between Ethiopia's dictator and Stiglitz-Sachs as ingratiation. ❋ Alemayehu G. Mariam (2010)

Saskia Wickham conveys the strain of preserving the marital facade and there is a peach of a performance from Graham Seed as a sly blackmailer who veers between ingratiation and menace. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And Boswell, for his part, abandons ingratiation to protest at being insulted in front of common enemies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Jacqueline Defferary is delicate as Bulgakov's increasingly desperate wife; Mark Addy glides with finesse between menace and ingratiation: he is the NKVD man who turns his hand to theatre directing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Bibi + people who make Bibi look moderate is not going to be a recipe for ingratiation with the Obama team. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A narcissist can appear quite innocent because she has so mastered the technique of ingratiation, so much so that she can make you feel that you have somehow committed a terrible injustice by denying her X or Y or Z as she positions herself as the victim. ❋ Judith Acosta (2010)

Mendes's men are media-driven – there's a strong scene in which ingratiation is presented as a photo opportunity, and a startling moment when Spacey's lying face appears on a screen between two praying monks, every pore oozing piety. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Many times, you know, it takes months and months of negotiations and meetings and, you know, ingratiation to try to get the individuals to work with me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To this end, why would anyone in a position of political or scientific influence do anything to jeopardise their ingratiation with the soon to be new class of Super Oligarch's? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The challenge in our practice is to help remarkable people become more clear about their intentions, to focus their attention, to shape, frame and hold a compelling personal context for their next, all the while not slipping into happy talk, what historian Gary Wills calls "omnidirectional ingratiation and placation." ❋ Roger Fransecky (2010)

When Obama courts the voters it always feels like an act of ingratiation and arrogance. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation from wiki. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'd dismiss this as simple ingratiation of the faithful (any good salesman will compliment you on your "good taste," especially when you're buying something ghastly), but he goes on to cite 12 more times that users of homeopathy are of "higher socioeconomic status," "upper class" and have "a high [er] level of education" than non-users. ❋ Ph.D. David Brenders (2010)

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