attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
Coming into the assembly, where all the people had gathered together, he began first to appease the troublesome and turbulent element among them with obsequious and flattering words.
Words Like Loaded Pistols
In contrast, today's young people, including many millennials and Gen Zers alike, view 9/11 as the beginning of one of the most devastatingly consequential events of our lives: an endless war.Salon
Dalcroze’s exercises are always sequential, beginning with the simplest and becoming more complex as students master and develop their skills.
Music and the Child
a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
Most significantly, there are many who are still willing to risk whatever medical consequences might occur by refusing to be vaccinated in order to preserve their personal liberty.
1919 The Year That Changed America
The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom.
Silent Spring
Minutes later the official results were announced: Ky Ebright and California had won their third consecutive national varsity title, by one-third of a second.
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The entire first floor was covered with carpeting to muffle the noise made by spectators, and the folding seats had been replaced with upholstered and consequently “soundless” chairs.
Endgame
Despite all this, the private detectives somehow failed to secure enough evidence to prosecute any of the suspects, or perhaps the private eyes were bought off.
Killers of the Flower Moon
an official conducting criminal cases on behalf of the state
Nearly all criminal cases are resolved through plea bargaining—a guilty plea by the defendant in exchange for some form of leniency by the prosecutor.
The New Jim Crow
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