How many other ATP pros, when challenging a call, look deferentially downward as they do it, as if they’re a little embarrassed about having to ask for a favor? How many, when a chair umpire ...
Mostly, James knows how to play dumb and how to speak the way a slave is supposed to speak to whites, deferentially. But sometimes he liberates himself from the tyranny of Black dialect and ...
He is being feted by conservative foundations and think tanks, and often treated deferentially by liberals, for a theory of presidential power that would make Hobbes proud. Yoo believes Americans ...
and for a while they were treated deferentially—like royalty. Their stay proved to be noisier, having exploded and exposed their pretensions. Coming or going, there had never been a family quite ...
The farmers whose village was bulldozed to build the City Golf Course now weed fairways on their ancestral land—and smile deferentially when officials play through. Beyond its elitist appeal ...
The so-called Enlightened mind claims that the more rationally and deferentially one treats someone pathological, the more likely it is that he will respond and reform — or at least behave.