unctuousness

Mendelsohn and Lesser have the luxury of playing to type here, with the former channeling his version of Imperial unctuousness and the latter lending a professorial chill to his acceptance of unconscionable orders.

But when neither his extreme unctuousness nor a pitcher of vodka stingers quite do the trick, he resorts to the ultimate aphrodisiac: name-dropping.

The doctor Ptolemy sees — played by the usually reliable Walton Goggins with a note of uneasy unctuousness — offers him an experimental, short-term miracle: a complete but temporary restoration of his mind and his memory.

With his characteristic unctuousness, he regretted the existence of what he and kindred spirits have not only done nothing to refute but have themselves nurtured — a pandemic of suspicions that the election was “rigged.”

“It looks like the last gasp of vengefulness and cronyism from an administration that has always preferred unctuousness to qualifications.”