deferential

So the collaborative feel of “Mr. Scorsese,” which often tips toward the deferential, is not surprising.

The media and the legal community deserves some blame: By disguising hardball politics as constitutional theory, Roberts capitalized on longstanding deferential traditions and incentives within media court-watchers and academics.

California’s challenge to those justifications has so far floundered in court, with the 9th Circuit finding in June that judges must be “highly deferential” to the president’s interpretation of facts on the ground.

But it’s worth stressing the takeaway: Redford was always deferential to his leading women, all of whom bloomed and ached in his absence.

And it has been deferential to his whims, but the Republican Party losing control of the House and Senate would be a major blow to his agenda.