There is an off-putting air of officiousness to the place, an inevitable byproduct of playing official host to Israel's A-list guests for half a century.
I learned it in Mexico, and Spanish-speakers from elsewhere laughed at my faint air of officiousness.
It was dog-in-the-manger officiousness, pure and simple.
Cynthia, the beautiful and maddeningly confident young woman, will be laid low — a fact that's rather comforting, in the face of her lighthearted officiousness.
In my experience, the word "bossiness" is a solid little stand-in for officiousness.
Oleg, a new K.G.B. officer, tries to convince her that being a machine does not make it smart: when a camera takes a picture of you smiling, he asks her, "Does it know if you are happy?" Nina passes, after Stan and the F.B.I. polygraph operator study her results with a dated reverence and officiousness.
A second certainty is that "employers everywhere will be looking to reduce labor content in their business models as Obamacare makes employees unambiguously more expensive".… Time was, American businesses could surmount such regulatory officiousness.
The whole idea was a cackling jab at the pomp and officiousness Scialabba himself so utterly lacks.
Mr. Simm's balletic footwork of obsequiousness and officiousness is a treat.
Miller's questions about unreliable intelligence are brushed off by the higher-ups, in particular a Pentagon intelligence officer named Poundstone, played with perfect officiousness by Greg Kinnear.
Christophe Dumaux's steely countertenor neatly projects the officiousness of the Representative of the Union of Writers.
