There is a strong complicity between McCafferty and Hill, and their exchanges hit the right balance between comic routine and master-servant power exchange.
And when a lawyer accused the court of being a "servant to power," he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Packer wrote that despite Holbrooke's reputation as someone who craved attention, he was "a loyal servant to power, with an old-fashioned respect for the Presidency".
Far from undermining those he works for, Holbrooke is a loyal servant to power, with an old-fashioned respect for the Presidency.
As before, the novel is narrated from Cromwell's point of view, and the strange sympathy she creates for this servant of power faces new tests.
The 17th-century artist, especially in Catholic Europe which had discovered the propaganda value of art, was a servant of power whose task was the glorification of church and state.
In an online interview last year with The Pittsburgh Tribune Review, he suggested that the magazine had lost its way and had become, like other institutions on the left, "complete lying servants of power without turning a hair".
"On the other hand, it's quite unnerving to feel you're being projected into a very violent and volatile situation where you might be regarded as an agent or faithful servant of a power that has incurred great hostility".
The national-security chief, the top civil servant in the power ministry and the attorney-general have all been ousted.
That's particularly true when the film creates itself as a servant to political power: by itself, the CIA's heavy (and still unexamined) involvement in this film is a significant and disturbing development.
Public servants are accorded power.
