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The seconds crawl, and, as they do, you realize that the immobile, obsequious Eddie is infinitely more terrifying than any of the slobbering, muscle-flexing, knife-wielding psychopaths of Con Air . A Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster can't waste a beat simulating a real human exchange.
In our staged "dialogue"--which was played out in semi-public, in front of a disturbingly obsequious audience of a hundred or so businessmen--Mahathir continued to sound a minor-key version of the conspiracy theme, insisting that capital controls were necessary to protect small countries against the evil designs of big speculators.
An obsequious 1992 New York Times Magazine profile put it this way: "In the Governor's office, Weld has restored a tradition of aristocratic Yankee lordship, he has made governing look easy and WASP ascendancy seem an expression of natural law, if not of divine right."
2. Private jets, yachts, obsequious staffs, pandering guests.
Search for obsequious references to Bill Gates.