Members of press clubs are often seen in sycophantic gaggles as they follow top politicians through their day.
He (or she) would be pro-active, approachable, knowledgeable and good company for journalists, without being sycophantic to them.
He was just trying to demonstrate that his sycophantic courtiers were foolish.
Last week a public television channel broadcast a laughably sycophantic interview with Mr Schmitt, while he was still attempting to cling to office.
Hence his venomous anger at postwar England's "sycophantic, phlegmatic and pusillanimous" upper middle classes, among whom the right accent was far more valuable than a high IQ.
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Meanwhile, Zanu-PF continues to control the country's biggest-selling daily, the sycophantic and turgid Herald, along with all television and radio broadcasting, though some foreign radio stations manage to beam in programmes from abroad.
Although the local media, with their sycophantic celebration of Mubarak and support for Israeli withdrawals have supported this view, it is far from clear that the public has been convinced of its wisdom.
Sycophantic behavior tends to rule Seventh Art ceremonies.
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"Bruce Shelly, codesigner of Sid Meier's Civilization , is involved in this project, so expect remarkable things from Age of Empires later this year, " babbles a sycophantic quote from Canada Computes on Microsoft's web page.
The amoral Duke is a Sinatra-esque crooner with his own casino and posse of violent henchman (he sings his anthem, "Questa o quella, " with a microphone prop to a sycophantic crowd of dudes and showgirls).
We all led comfortable lives because of Jordan: Me, all the sycophantic TV guys and writers in Chicago, everyone who worked at NBC in the '90s, everyone who played against him and who wrote about him.
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.
At the time, the speech received so much applause from the sycophantic audience of top officials and lawmakers that he had to tell them to be quiet, adding that they might not like to hear everything he had to tell them.
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