This is the kind of lapdog news media the Nixon White House cherished.
Except for a handful of lapdog leftist parties and a relentlessly harassed gaggle of human-rights groups, opposition, in effect, is outlawed.
There has been a steady drumbeat of intrigue and dreck trying to tie Snowden to Russia, as something of a poodle or other sort of lapdog.
According to his biographer, Campbell Lennie, Landseer had until that point faced a likely future "as a parlour painter of lapdogs".
He says though that journalism has become an industry of lapdogs, looking for the easy scoops, never wanting to rock the boat and potentially lose sources.
Since the mid-eighties, she has spent most of her time trying to concoct a cat with the temperament of a lapdog and the appearance of a tiger one that is "small, but it looks like it could take down a gazelle".
His selection rekindles two sets of connected fears about the South African democracy: of a social conservative backlash, and of a lapdog judiciary.
But the fact that it's Trump, who has so alienated much of the rest of the world — "I try so hard to be his friend," he tweeted, of Kim Jong Un, before word came of their potential meeting — makes a world leader who can forge some points of agreement with him look like less of a lapdog than an elephant tamer.
5. Shock is the name of the lapdog belonging to Belinda, the comely and cossetted heroine of Alexander Pope's mock-epic poem "The Rape of the Lock" (1712), which, in keeping with its satirical style, presents Shock not as an individual in his own right, but as the summation of various cliches about lapdogs.
Not quite all – Chummy's copper hubby, he's OK; maybe a bit of a lapdog, but at least he's not rotten to the core like the rest of them.
Hunter switches quickly between 10 characters, including the emperor's pillow-bearer, the wiper-up of his lapdog's urine and the purse-bearer whose job was to distribute envelopes, often stripped of their original money, to the poor.
