Sentences with fawning
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F f - That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
- The courtiers fawned over the king.
- At showtime, Paris is a freerange zoo swarming with exotic creatures and fawning keepers, an unmatched spectacle of fabulous humanity.
- And now the same faulty judgement that motivated Fraser's fawning tribute to the monstrous Mao is directed in another incongruous direction.
- He says she must have low self-esteem, and that is why she craved fawning male company.
- Alternating between obsequious fawning and total indifference, Jiminy can be cruelly dismissive.
- The latter skewered the fawning, less-than-honest eulogies often heaped upon the deceased.
- Rocco, inhabit a closed world of bodyguards, gagged nannies and fawning flunkies.