Word: unctious
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Mooradian and Bamberger give humorous, tour de force performances. As the ineptly scheming Ko-Ko, Mooradian is an outrageously unctious dirty old man, ogling the school girls, or melting in paroxysms of fright when he finds himself imperiled or actually called upon to perform his duty as executioner...
...have a hand in the formulation of a new government. Now, a student council with support from 43 percent of undergraduates is deemed legitimate. Assuming that most of the meaningful issues the nascent council will confront will bring it into conflict with administrators or the Faculty, the unctious desire to appease both these groups shown by the constitution's framers at every step casts doubt on the new council's potential for furthering student interests...
...There is, though, one problem you find yourself facing when you deal with a man like Richard Nixon, an unctious, 'umble Uriah Heep, a 24-hour-a-day self-parody: he himself is so funny he pre-empts all other forms of comic abuse. Now Philip Roth is not a writer to be shaken off when there's a laugh to be trailed, shadowed and nabbed. But in reading Our Gang, you get the sense that Richard Nixon did indeed give Roth a run for his money...
...minor but irritating fault: The Opera's authors repeatedly employ a word which they spell "unctious...
...first American play, written by a Harvard graduate of the class of 1776, presents a delightful view of early colonial life. A Yankee colonel and his bumpkin servant, who is the first stage Yankee, arrive in a highly Chester-fleldian New York. They contrive to outwit the urbane, unctious continental-mannered dandy, using humorous, embarrassing and patriotic devices. The play winds up with an oration by the Colonel upholding the independence and superiority of the good old United States. Good scene: the bumpkin servant attempting to gain cherub in consequences from a servant girl...