Sentence examples for obsequious waiter from inspiring English sources
Other members of the gang can be seen hanging around the edges of the story: Jonah Hill as an obsequious waiter, Paul Rudd as a grinning, bonged-out surfing instructor, Bill Hader as an upright fellow on the mainland who stays in touch by teleconferencing.
Obsequious waiters serve tea and cookies for occasional visitors.
To me, the outmoded phrase evokes 70s and 80s restaurants with flock wallpaper, piped music, obsequious waiters in bow ties and greasy glow-in-the-dark curries.
She also says "fuck" a lot, which strikes an odd note in this place – a muzak-oozing timewarp of a midtown Manhattan restaurant, all obsequious waiters and swaths of peach linen.
"No one was expecting to see the Leader of the Opposition bend at the waist, Japanese-style, like some obsequious head waiter, let alone full genuflection.
"But is it OK if I demand my waiter be obsequious?" Kelman asks.
I never heard so many "Dankeschoens" and "Bitteschoens" in my life in one single evening, and it was my first introduction to the almost obsequious courtesy of German waiters.
The waiters were suitably cheerful and obsequious.
If that plate should be returned denuded of the dreaded topping by a waiter who seems a tad too obsequious when he plops it down in front of you, it's probably because he knows where that French toast has just been, and you don't.
Obsequious laughter flowed.
