Sentence examples for anxious to please a from inspiring English sources

The government, anxious to please a powerful constituency, does not interfere.

He is essentially a polite man, anxious to please, and he has a quick, warm smile and a trust in people that might seem naïve in a less experienced person.

Anxious to please him, we took a train up the Hudson to the inn he recommended.

Ardant is delightfully friendly, polite and anxious to please yet simultaneously exudes a sense of imminent chaos and calamity, not to mention deliberate mischief-making.

This Shostakovich is a bundle of nerves, anxious to please authorities less out of an ironist's sense of the game than out of deep and irremediable fear, built up over decades.

Here it has produced a display anxious to please everyone by offending no one.

Maybe Will Mr. Scottt), a white teenager anxious to please, can handle the job.

He has been characteristically silent over the Nobel peace prize just awarded to a Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo.At home and abroad Mr Zuma is a supreme pragmatist, anxious to please everyone and offend no one.

Unfortunately, anxious to please Rupert Murdoch's Sky News and with an exaggerated confidence in David Cameron's message, the Tories gambled.

But they are playing a delicate balancing act, anxious to please the "troika" of the EU, ECB and International Monetary Fund (IMF), while not alienating their biggest investors in Russia.

"They are ill-considered decisions taken in a bit of a hurry, either because you're trying to please the president or because you are a weak government that is anxious to please somebody".