Sentence examples for ingratiation from inspiring English sources

Wednesday's performances suggested that ballet was little but endlessly ingratiating acrobatics and endlessly acrobatic ingratiation.

To British audiences, Tony Blair's mannerisms now seem so much mechanical ingratiation; but, like a debutante falling for a practised seducer, his rapt French listeners gave Mr Blair a standing ovation.

Indeed, in McCutcheon the court had lauded the "ingratiation and access" gained by large contributors to political campaigns as "embody[ing] a central feature of democracy that constituents support candidates who share their beliefs and interests, and candidates who are elected can be expected to be responsive to those concerns".

He admired the integrity of the old bluesmen and the willfulness of poets, and his distaste for ingratiation provided a useful template for such later figures as Elvis Costello and John Mellencamp, who traded in related forms of surliness.

I suspect everyone ends up sounding like George Galloway in his ingratiation of Saddam Hussein.

They're also pleas for attention; tools of ingratiation, seduction, appeasement; flags of disapproval, contempt, embarrassment.

Merv Griffin is the most disarming of ego strokers; Mike Douglas runs him a close second in the ingratiation stakes; and Dick Cavett creates the illusion that he is your guest, enjoying a slightly subversive private chat.

The thing is, ingratiation suggests a communal expectation — in this case, that listeners increasingly think of Passover in terms of dietary strictures and ritual symbols, old-style laws, not the move from slavery to emancipation.