(1) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(2) This may be due to their greater empathy in observing the needs of others or, alternatively, to an effort at ingratiation or an overreaction to social distress.
(3) Epstein’s purposes in ‘lending’ Jane Doe (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information.” The motion alleges that Maxwell was “a primary co-conspirator in his sexual abuse and sex trafficking scheme” and that she also participated in the abuse.
(4) This discussion highlights the subtlety involved in non-verbal ingratiation.
(5) The present research is a first attempt to explore the ingratiation ingredients of non-verbal attractiveness.
(6) She is also shown instructing an agent to attend campaign meetings and coaching him on how to ingratiate himself with activists.
(7) It is a tensile, highly dissonant combination of lines, etched in primary colours, with absolutely no harmonic or colouristic padding to ingratiate the listener.
(8) Governments have sought to ingratiate themselves with the motor manufacturers and oil companies to the detriment of public health.
(9) Smooth South African Trevor Noah saunters into shot, smiling, while the show’s trio of regular comedy sidekicks, Jessica Williams, Hasan Minhaj and Jordan Klepper, play around with a vuvuzela and some basic rugby terminology in a lame effort to ingratiate themselves with the new star.
(10) Savile used to boast of his royal connections, made sure to be photographed with Charles on numerous occasions and ingratiated himself once telling the Daily Mail the prince was "the nicest man you will ever meet".
(11) The Catholic father in Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall is just the most implacable enemy of nice-as-pie communists showing everyone a good time; the village imam in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep is an ingratiating, smirking creep; and the local rev in The Homesman (as played by John Lithgow) is definitely a weasel, rather too obviously grateful not to have to transport three traumatised frontierwomen back east.
(12) Ángel di María, with the opening goal and a performance combining high skill and hard running, certainly wasted little time ingratiating himself with his new audience.
(13) Children's testimony can be influenced by an overly authoritative or ingratiating attorney stance, an attorney's preconceived notions, age-inappropriate questions, and the child's limited attention span.
(14) He had always ingratiated himself into the cocktail parties of colleagues' relatives and acquaintances and in 1971, he married Emma de Bendern, daughter of Count John de Bendern; the marriage was convenient socially but lasted only three years.
(15) The main task of the present generation of politicians is not, I think to ingratiate themselves with the public through the decisions they take or their smiles on television.
(16) Epstein’s purposes in ‘lending’ Jane Doe (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information.” It adds: “For instance, one such powerful individual Epstein forced Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with was a member of the British royal family, Prince Andrew (aka Duke of York).” The Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz – who is also named in the court papers – said the claims against him were part of a pattern of “made-up stories” by the woman and her lawyers against prominent people.
(17) He met Hitler after he treated Heinrich Hoffman, the official Reich photographer, and sensing an opportunity quickly ingratiated himself with the Führer, who had long suffered from severe intestinal pains.
(18) Stalin had a fifth columnist in Ramón Mercader, who had ingratiated himself with one of Trotsky’s secretaries for years, becoming her boyfriend.
(19) The people who are favoured with special information are those who have ingratiated themselves with the government.
(20) Each sender expressed sincere agreement with the target on one of the issues and sincere disagreement on another (truthful messages), and also pretended to agree with the partner on one of the issues (an ingratiating lie) and pretended to disagree on another (a noningratiating lie).
Solicitous
Definition:
(v. t.) Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
Example Sentences:
(1) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(2) Vertically oriented stimuli were paired with a horizontal response solicited at different locations but always involving the same hand posture.
(3) Jonathan Zdziarski, an independent security researcher, said he has tracked the Bitcoin address used to solicit donations for some of the celebrity pictures and found it belongs to the owner of a Dutch photo-hosting site – which he says is also distributing an "original version" of the pictures released earlier this week.
(4) The 54-year-old, who was jailed for seven years for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, has been fighting extradition since 2004.
(5) Solicitation of patients' assessment of the value and meaningfulness of the rehabilitative task has practical importance.
(6) The law will decriminalise street sex workers, who will no longer be charged for soliciting, but it will still be illegal for two women to work together, or to run a brothel.
(7) Fehring's methodology was adapted for soliciting input from nurse experts for the 134 labels described in this issue.
(8) A questionnaire survey was conducted to solicit the experiences, opinions, and recommendations of the users of this system.
(9) Health departments in Canada solicited reports of this newly recognized illness.
(10) As for the prolongation of the parasitism, it would seem to result on one hand, from a reduced solicitation of the means of defence owing to a smaller number of worms and, on another hand, from the slowing down of the hypocorticosteronemy through the buffer effect of lactation with all the consequences flowing from this at the level of the specific and aspecific defence reactions.
(11) A separate questionnaire was sent to 9 pacemaker manufacturers to solicit information concerning the volume of pacemaker sales and their opinions on a variety of subjects.
(12) Soliciting behavior (hop-darting) was not enhanced by any treatment, suggesting that catecholamine activity has an inhibitory influence on the stop component of sexual behavior, but not on the whole copulatory pattern.
(13) Male rats with ARD displayed not only lordosis but also soliciting behaviors in response to 2 micrograms estradiol benzoate (EB) and 0.5 mg progesterone (P).
(14) To test the hypothesis that death might be related to various clinical parameters, retrospective data collection was solicited on 175 ECMO-related CDH deaths from 41 American ECMO centers (ELSO Registry 1980 through 1989).
(15) Working with the radiology department to compile a standard list of radiopharmaceuticals and radiopaque contrast media and soliciting competitive bids by vendors of these products resulted in annual savings of more than $83,000.
(16) Responses were solicited from the program directors and chief residents.
(17) Results through the first 5 months of this project are presented with copies of all materials used in the solicitation.
(18) I did so in part after soliciting and receiving this response to the center’s mock “nutrition label” for the salmon from Ron Stotish, CEO of AquaBounty, on 27 June: Rebuttal of Center for Food Safety AquAdvantage (AAS) Salmon composition label: In the United States, the average height of a student entering the third grade is 45 inches.
(19) When he is out socially he sometimes tells people that he works for the Post Office (it stops them soliciting invitations to send him scripts, and moaning about the kind of comedies they hate).
(20) Sexual performance of the males did not differ under the two conditions of testing, but the rate of sexual solicitation by the females was significantly higher when treated with the vaginal lavage.