31. Hence his shamelessly sycophantic letter to the NRA's executive director, Tanya Metaksa, last week. 32. Police also opened limousine doors, and it wasn't just a sycophantic gesture to the stars. 33. The world knows him only from sycophantic reports in magazines and on " 60 Minutes ." 34. He vowed that he would not write poems that are " merely sycophantic or sentimental ." 35. It's a ravenous, lusty look that even the most sycophantic smile can't camouflage. 36. Even more sycophantic was Robert Sheridan, the president of Savings Bank Life Insurance and a new trustee. 37. He was variously criticized for being rude, a weak leader, selfish, sycophantic , and quarrelsome. 38. On the final day, he finds that the sycophantic treatment he received from his entourage is gone. 39. Upon tasting Keenan's wine, Suckling's reaction is enthusiastic " though not sycophantic ". 40. We were not a bunch of sycophantic lemmings waiting to jump off a cliff when somebody tells us to.