Until he shows more willingness to be independent of government and thus truly accountable, and less of a tendency to want to please politicians and the media, I and others will not be springing to his defence when he is unnecessarily attacked.
"Tendencies like wanting to please, wanting to say what they think the adult authority figure wants to hear or misunderstanding the situation," he says, all leave children at risk.
The comedian and actress chooses, and sticks to, a nice roomy theme – her tendency to try too hard to please people and to being too acquiescent in certain situations.
But their admirers can be unsettled by the hybrid's need to please everyone and tendency to split the difference rather than take a stand.
Their intelligence, their tenacity, their goofball nature, their desire to please, and their tendency to pile on top of each other into the most adorable thing you've ever seen.
The downside is a professional eagerness to please, which leads to blandness and a tendency to think things out so thoroughly that there is not much left for the viewer to do.
During the telephone interview, the patients might have a tendency to try and please or impress the interviewer, and therefore may have been reluctant to be totally honest.
Noel Hall, C. Scoby Stroman and Mickey Davidson, the event's director and choreographer, did some uninhibited jitterbugging in "Harlem Stomp". Earlier in the afternoon, the dancers had seemed so eager to please in lively numbers that they had a tendency to force effects.
Among the concerns are the delays that workers encounter before receiving benefits in bitterly contested cases, and the tendency of some doctors to tilt their diagnoses in workers' cases to please those who hire them.
