Word: sycophantically
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The time is a hundred years after the Norman Conquest, and Anouilh roots his conflict in the blood enmity between Henry, great-grandson of William the Conqueror, and his Saxon subject. Henry sneers at Becket as a "collaborator," but in fact the king is sycophant to the courtier, whose quiet...
A common childhood dream is one in which the dreamer overpowers his parents and becomes their acknowledged superior. The Glass children have satisfied this desire from birth; their father is a colorless nothing, their mother a somewhat comic sycophant to their talents. In short, the Glasses have never really grown...
But everything was far from fine-at least to the members of Local 10, the Chicago Federation of Musicians, which has played syncopated sycophant to Petrillo since 1923. The local had gone all that time under Petrillo's presidency without a meaningful challenge to his reign. Now it dared...
Nudist. War profiteer. Absentee war correspondent. Liar. Fourflusher. Sycophant. Coat holder.
It is abundantly clear that the artist is no court sycophant. It reminded me of Oliver Cromwell's roaring rebuke to his 17th century artist, "Paint me as I am, warts and all."