coterie

Frustrated by her coterie of assistants glued to their cellphones, Rachel gazes at him with the glowy admiration he can’t get from his own girls.

During Newby’s tenure as chief justice, a cartoon has hung in the Supreme Court depicting him as Superman, surrounded by a coterie of conservative appellate justices caricatured as other members of DC Comics’ Justice League.

As in many such shows, there is a coterie of easily distinguishable friends at its center.

But so does the episode’s device of using sculpture-like representations of Cleopatra and her coterie, their facial expressions reflecting whatever historical achievement, or calamity, is being recalled.

The most obvious addition to attendees this year was a coterie of lobbyists touring the venue trying to understand how they might work with a Reform-led government.