Kennan describes Russia as a horrible domain of obsequious flattery of the Tsar and spying. He is a pompous, obsequious clergyman who intends to marry one of the Bennet girls. They thus appear as "obedient, obsequious servants of a ruler". An elaborate court ceremonial developed, and obsequious flattery became the order of the day. Edo writers by contrast saw "zeeroku" as obsequious apprentices, stingy, greedy, gluttonous, and lewd. He is obsequious towards the powerful, arrogant towards the weak, sententious and narrow-minded. He is a very loyal, obsequious minion to Junior. The Riksdag of 1778 had been obsequious; the Riksdag of 1786 was mutinous. He was outgoing and eager to please to the point of being obsequious. He succeeded, however, in reversing his father's obsequious policy towards Imperial Russia. Perhaps the members of the Soviet-Ukraine government thought that the name sounded too obsequious. This obsequious compliment need not be taken seriously. Like his predecessor, he continued being obsequious to United states. A Yes man is a sycophant; an obsequious assistant or enabler.