At my launch party, I effusively greet a man in a grey suit, assuming him to be a TV producer (everyone else is in khaki casual).
A moment later, Justice Sotomayor ended the interview to effusively greet the family of Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, who was to introduce her at the event — the latest politician to stress his claim to her.
When Lad returns home, Lady effusively greets her returned mate.
I wandered into the room where foreign newspapers are "scrutinized" and was greeted effusively by Khaing Thazin Htwe, a smiling young woman with long hair and bangs in a pretty white embroidered shirt.
In February, C.I.A. officers and officers attached to the U.S. Central Command watched as a Predator, thousands of feet above ground, captured images of a very tall man being greeted effusively, or so it seemed, by a small group of colleagues.
As a regular at this clubby restaurant on the fourth floor of the Time Warner Center, she was greeted effusively by the senior dining-room manager, Tim Brown, who guided her, along with a "View" publicist and a reporter, to a window table offering dazzling views of Central Park.
As a case in point, in Brazil, the ultra-rightist former Army officer Jair Bolsonaro, who will assume office in January, has promised a "Brazil First" administration, and has been greeted effusively by John Bolton, Donald Trump's national-security adviser, as "a like-minded" partner.
He seemed to have been drinking before I arrived, and greeted me effusively, with kisses on both cheeks.
To top it off, when we arrived, the dining room was empty except for the staff, which greeted us effusively.
A friend later told me he had never been greeted so effusively as when I encountered him having a quiet pint on the Thursday afternoon, so pleased was I have to have bumped into him by chance.
Kohan, who calls herself a "cultural, book Jew," takes a Talmud class, and she had been mulling over one of its themes: "How do two contradictory truths occupy the same space?" The actresses were returning from their hiatus, and they greeted Kohan effusively.
