Sentence examples for was always the obsequious from inspiring English sources
He was always the obsequious lieutenant.
Quentin Falk writes: Although he was always polite to the point of being obsequious with his stars, Michael Winner could be a bully when it came to minor actors and humble craftsmen on his film sets.
"Hurry up, I'm starving!" she orders the obsequious Stern in her reality show.
Don't be fooled by all the obsequious letters that Bach wrote to patrons and princes, or by the abjectly devout spirit that emanates from his sacred music.
From the moment you walk in, you know that all here want to cater to your every need without becoming... what is the word?... obsequious.
When Sanders isn't fighting off funny animals, he's jousting with funny ethnics: the obsequious Hispanic foreman, the overbearing Asian boss, the greedy Indian investor.
In front of an audience, however, he is shamelessly, happily obsequious, and the crowds eat it up.
By the end of that year's presidential campaign, he was writing obsequious notes to Richard Nixon.
Conversation was lively, obsequious.
She wasn't obsequious about what she was doing.
