I mean sweet words, lowcrooked courtesies and base spaniel fawning.

What are you fawning on him for? Get his story.

This is the vengeful side of our fawning, as though the humiliation of worshipping idols must be balanced by our delight in their downfall.

So perhaps the existential fear of some Western intellectuals is easier to explain than their remarkable, sometimes fawning trust in the US government to save the world by force.

Unlike Chávez, Fidel s fawning disciple, Uribe, Calderón, and Lula are quietly supporting political liberalization in Cuba, and believe that Raúl Castro also worries about Cuba s dependence on Venezuela, as well as on China.