Gradually, the elder Mr. Bell has come to defer more readily to his son.
Off the record, would-be critics complain about a phenomenon I've come to know as "anticipatory genuflection," in which other politicians, anticipating a future or backup career in the nonprofit sector, when they might depend on the largesse of the extremely wealthy, defer too readily to the Mayor's wishes.
And for a variety of reasons, many in the West readily defer.
Mountain goats are unusual in that males readily defer to females.
Mr. Carey could be remarkably free of egotism, sharing credit liberally with others and readily deferring to his aides.
He readily defers to those who know more than he does, and is fond of a good joke (the name must help).
There is no use comparing the two, said Washington, the manager of the Texas Rangers, who readily defers to La Russa's acumen.
Amar is Shas's candidate because he readily defers to the party's spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Sephardic chief rabbi himself.
Zeroing in on a perception that Ms. Gillibrand too readily defers to Senate leaders, especially Senator Charles E. Schumer, he added: "We have a fundamental difference on independence.
Early on, Peterson agreed that the firm should have only one chief executive, and readily deferred to Schwarzman, a stickler for detail who chose the firm's wallpaper and furnishings and interviewed every prospective employee.
Chris Cabin from Slant Magazine agreed that the writing too readily "defers to an earnest, rote view of bad religion", but wrote that Pizzolatto and Fukunaga "smartly embrace the pulpiness of their material".
