ingratiation

Ingratiation can be applied to many real world situations.

"I've been a lousy therapist," she said by way of ingratiation.

Fly-fishing can also provide an especially enticing form of ingratiation.

Neither character is a match for Lyman in the department of ingratiation.

Even more indie is the way its music shuns ingratiation.

More research shows how ingratiation is applicable in the online dating community and job interviews.

An affable ingratiation that I cared for even less than his normal approach.

As usual, her efforts at ingratiation have been clumsy.

No ingratiation of millions to hold them back.

The aesthetics of ingratiation take an artist only so far, and this is subject matter with far greater needs.

Communicativeness and ingratiation, however, are not the same.

With his back against the bar's racks of bottles, he smiled with nervous ingratiation.

Ingratiation Use of charm, private information and personal friendship to gain access or promises of support.

The only other way was by ingratiation, but I was damned if that was ever going to happen to me again.

Since Jones' work of the 1960s, researchers have added four more types of ingratiation.

For example, a prosecutor might use ingratiation to flatter a jury or cast an impression of his authority.

We could do with a bit of that old-fashioned ingratiation right now, for Joe has fallen out with his drama teacher.

One form of interaction that he examined closely resulted in a book on the psychology of ingratiation.

There would be no garrulous ingratiation here, none of the usUal rapport.

His own peculiar version is a blend of self-effacing candor and transparent ingratiation.

From this, Jones divided ingratiation into three major classes: other enhancement, conformity and self-presentation.

He leaned over the unordered drink, which had been deposited in front of him as a fruitless attempt at ingratiation.

Hoffman's smile stalled halfway between insult and ingratiation.

He heard himself making automatic replies as he went through the motions of greeting, inquiry and ingratiation.

His effort of ingratiation culminated in a deep bow and a lingering kiss to the baron's extended fingers.